YouTube Cleaning Up Custom URLs

YouTube announced that it is cleaning up the system by which users request custom URLs.

YouTube announced that it is cleaning up the system by which users request custom URLs.

Under the current system, YouTube users could either go via the YouTube system and generate a URL in the youtube.com/ChannelName format, or those integrated with Google+ would get the youtube.com/c/ChannelName format.

YouTube Creators director of product management Tom Leung explained the changes in a blog post:

With these two systems in place, we began to see instances where two channels could request URLs with similar names in these two different formats.

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