How to Migrate a YouTube Channel on an Oswego (Google) Account to a Personal Channel Account

Overview

In order to migrate a YouTube channel that is owned by an Oswego Google account, you must proceed through the following steps:

Instructions

  1. Create a new (YouTube) Brand Account under your Oswego account. 
    1. https://www.youtube.com/channel_switcher 
    2. click [+Create a channel] and follow the instructions.
       
  2. Transfer the ownership of the Oswego account to the new Brand account
    1. Video Example demonstrating this process
    2. Additional Procedures
  3. Add the Personal account as an "Owner" of the Brand account
    1. Use this page to access Branding settings
       
  4. After a 7-day waiting period, you can fully transfer the Primary Ownership of the Brand account (and thus the target YouTube account) to the Personal account. 

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