A YouTube channel is not a life-long commitment. There are various reasons for why you may want to delete your YouTube channel. Perhaps the channel is too old, no longer meets your brand’s needs or you plan on leaving the Google platform behind in favor of a suitable YouTube alternative.
Perhaps you were only ever using your YouTube channel privately and are now looking to monetize with YouTube. Whatever your reason for wanting to delete your current YouTube channel, we explain how to do it step by step and which preparations you should make.
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Matching emailSSL certificate24/7/365 supportA YouTube channel accumulates a lot of content over time. If you want to create more professional videos, become an influencer or improve your YouTube SEO ranking, your old videos or an outdated channel may no longer fit your brand’s image.
However, bear in mind that videos are irrevocably lost when you delete your YouTube channel. So if you haven’t backed up copies of important videos yet, download them as follows (as MP4 files):
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In the following, we have summarized the individual steps for how to delete your YouTube account or channel.
Sign into the Google account associated with your YouTube channel on the YouTube website.
Navigate to the “Settings” from the left side menu (under the three dash icon).
Click “Advanced settings” at the bottom of the Settings menu.
At the bottom of the “Advanced settings”, you will find the “Delete channel” section, including a link of the same name, which initiates the deletion process.
Confirm the Google account associated with the channel by entering your password and then clicking “Next”.
Prefer to delete only your YouTube history or only individual YouTube videos? In that case, you can keep your channel. From your YouTube account, just delete the history (under “Data & Personalization”) or only individual videos (via “Content”).
If you want to delete your YouTube channel and its content permanently, select the “The following will be permanently deleted” box under “I want to permanently delete my content”. Then click on “Delete my content”. You have now permanently deleted your YouTube channel. It may take a few hours for your channel to disappear from YouTube.
Alternatively, you can deactivate your channel via “I want to hide my channel” and make it invisible (without deleting it).
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Alternatively, you can also delete your channel via the Creator feature YouTube Studio:
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