How to Verify Your Youtube Channel
This tutorial is intended to teach you how to check whether your Youtube channel is verified or not and if not then how to verify your Youtube Channel.
A lot of options don’t show up when your Youtube Channel is not verified. Like you are not allowed to make use of Custom Thumbnails when trying to upload a new video. You can’t upload longer videos. You cannot make use of external annotations to link to other sites etc.
Now if you were to verify your account all these will get enabled. Wouldn’t that be nice? So how do you know whether your Youtube channel is verified or not?
Here’s an easy method to check that.
Checking whether your Youtube Channel is Verified or Not
I will make use of a Youtube channel called Gauri’s Recipe Diary to illustrate that.
Step 1: Sign in to your Youtube account. I am going to go ahead and sign in to the channel I had mentioned above.
Step 2: Click on the Creator Studio button located towards right as shown:
Step 3: Click on the Channel button located in the left-hand side-bar. It must be located above Analytics.
Step 4: The next screen will depict whether your Youtube Channel is verified or not. Here’s what it would look like if it is not:
If it is verified it will depict as:
Now that you know from where you can check whether your Youtube Channel is verified or not let us move on to the next section where you will learn how to verify your Youtube Channel.
How to Verify Your Youtube Channel
Follow these steps to learn that:
Step 5: Follow steps 1 to 4 to arrive at the following screen. Then click on Verify.
Step 6: When you click on Verify the following page would show:
Step 7: This takes you to the Account Verification page. Select your country in the dropdown.
Which method of verification do you prefer? I prefer a text verification code on my mobile no. So I am going to click on that option:
Provide your phone no. in the text box that flares once you click on “Text me the verification code” radio button.
Step 8: Enter your mobile number where you would like the verification code to be sent, then click on Submit button.
When you click on submit a text message will be sent to the mobile number entered.
Step 9: In the next step, enter the verification code that was sent to your mobile number in the textbox and then click on Submit button.
That’s it! Done! You will get a notification like this:
Go ahead! Keep rolling those Youtube videos!
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