Display names now?

[Symph]

So I used to know how to change a display name, it's how my channel url is ImSymph but it just displays Symph on youtube. Me and @Reesebomb are embarking on a live musical/comedy extravaganza we want to take to clubs and venues in our area and we are calling it Theatricade. I've secured the custom url already but the option to make it our display name seems to be missing? Is this no longer an option? We had to be Symph Reese for google plus which is whatever but I swear there used to be a way to make it whatever you wanted on youtube...

 

[Stef]

Do you mean on youTube? i think that can be fixed in your channel settings, but there's been so many changes lately that I'm not completely sure.

 

[Symph]

Do you mean on youTube? i think that can be fixed in your channel settings, but there's been so many changes lately that I'm not completely sure.

Yeah I know how I used to do it. I'd change it to a custom url and then the option to "set as display name" or something like that would appear in advanced settings... it's not appearing... grrrr...

 

[Willabee]

So I used to know how to change a display name, it's how my channel url is ImSymph but it just displays Symph on youtube. Me and @Reesebomb are embarking on a live musical/comedy extravaganza we want to take to clubs and venues in our area and we are calling it Theatricade. I've secured the custom url already but the option to make it our display name seems to be missing? Is this no longer an option? We had to be Symph Reese for google plus which is whatever but I swear there used to be a way to make it whatever you wanted on youtube...

Go to this page https://www.youtube.com/account_advanced and the option should be somewhere within. I can't give you better instruction because once you do it you don't see that information anymore :/
PS: YouTube is so crosswired at the moment. They really need to clean up the interface and make it more direct.

 

[Symph]

Go to this page https://www.youtube.com/account_advanced and the option should be somewhere within. I can't give you better instruction because once you do it you don't see that information anymore :/
PS: YouTube is so crosswired at the moment. They really need to clean up the interface and make it more direct.

Yep, it's gone.... and when it was there it still displayed it in two parts like it does on google plus forcing me to have a first and last name... so... they may have taken the option to have one name away...[DOUBLEPOST=1409164440,1409164403][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh well I gotta film for tomorrow's video now, running out of time, it's my 100 subscribers reprimanding video lmao

 

[fibfib]

Yep, it's gone.... and when it was there it still displayed it in two parts like it does on google plus forcing me to have a first and last name... so... they may have taken the option to have one name away...[DOUBLEPOST=1409164440,1409164403][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh well I gotta film for tomorrow's video now, running out of time, it's my 100 subscribers reprimanding video lmao

youcant change your url but if you want to change your display name go on your google plus and click on your avatar and a box will open and you just enter the new name you want

 

[Symph]

youcant change your url but if you want to change your display name go on your google plus and click on your avatar and a box will open and you just enter the new name you want

Yeah but it's still forcing me to have two names rather than letting me just have one, I would love it if we could just be theatricade

 

[CoolMoo5]

I think when you first sign up or maybe there is some way to do this now. But you have to pick create a channel for a business and then it lets you do one word names.

 

[fibfib]

Yeah but it's still forcing me to have two names rather than letting me just have one, I would love it if we could just be theatricade

that sucks bro, i changed my youtube name the other day and it only have one column which was 'name' so i could put what i wanted, and in the second name you can just put a '.' (dot)

 

[Symph]

that sucks bro, i changed my youtube name the other day and it only have one column which was 'name' so i could put what i wanted, and in the second name you can just put a '.' (dot)

Hmmm not a bad idea, or maybe an asterisk or something