So. I had a bit of a discussion today about the best way to create a second channel on YouTube. Without thinking much about it, I blurted out "use a google+ page link, and then become a manger on it from your other email address" Seemed like a good enough idea. So I decided to try it out to see how well it worked.
I'm not going to give you all of the details about google+ page/YT integration, but just my experience with setting up a second YT page with this method.
First I had to sign out of all my accounts. This is one of those little frustrations about YouTube that I don't encounter very often, but when I do I wish they would change it. In order to create a new YT account, you can't be signed into any existing YT account.
Next I created a new account. Gave it a name, monetized it, verified it, did everything that YT loves.
Then I disconnected it from G+, by default when you start a new YT account it will create a G+ account and connect it for you. If you are connected to a G+ Profile, then you can't connect to a Page.
Continuing On I then went to the advanced options for the page where you can connect to a G+ page. this is the link -> http://www.youtube.com/account_advanced
Again, if you are not monetized, verified and already connected to your profile, then this link will do nothing for you.
Now just connect it to your Page (OR if you don't have a page yet, it will create one for you. pretty slick)
The Hard Part was to get my personal email account to be a manager on this new page. For some reason G+ was having a hard time sending an invite to my Gmail address. It said the invite was sent, but no email ever came. I ended up sending it to another address, to see if that would work. And it did the email came right through. When I clicked on the link to confirm my manager position, it asked me which google account to use. So I picked the email account I wanted to use in the first place.
Kind of a hack, but It ended up working.
Finished
Now I have everything linked up. To test it, I signed out of all my accounts on Google. Signed into just the 1 account that is now a manager and connected to this new YT channel. and went to YouTube.
As expected, I could go to my channel settings and video manager for my main channel, But I could also easily switch to this second channel that is linked to the new G+ page and manage that too.
Conclusion
For me, just one person, it really isn't any easier to do it this way, then it is to have both accounts saved into my google account switcher. It works about the same way, but now I don't have to remember the user and pass for this second account (but that doesn't really matter since my browser remembers it for me)
But if you are wanting multiple people to have access to this new YT page, this is the way to go. Also, if I am logging into my YT from a different computer that doesn't have my settings, I still have access to this channel without logging it to it as well.
Further Experiments
Now that I have this set up this way i'm going to wait 2 weeks and make my original email account the owner of the G+ Page. I wonder if I switch ownership If I can get rid of the other google account all together and still keep the YT channel?
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