How Do People Do This?

[Korny]

I've noticed some people have multiple links to their channel. For example,

YouTube[dot]com/Caspar
YouTube[dot]com/Alfie

They take you to their main channel. However, if you go to /user/WhateverItIs then it says the page can not be found. My channel kind of has 2 names, and I tried to set up URL forwarding but it did not work so I deleted the channel with that name (stupid). I can't get that URL back so I'm kind of stuck and would like to do something similar to that.

 

[KGATV]

I'm not sure if they still allow it, but I know in the past you were able to email YouTube saying you want a vanity URL, and then you had to confirm you owned the account you wanted to be the vanity url. (Lke for Pointlessblog, he had to own the url "/alfie" for it to work).

Here's a video that explains it:

But I don't think they allow this anymore. I could be wrong, but when I emailed them I got nothing back, and in the comments of the video it seems like no one else is either.

 

[Wreckless Eating]

That's something you can only take care of while visiting YouTube. You don't need a huge channel-you just have to talk a rep into doing it for you if you own both URLs.