Become a channel member on YouTube

Channel memberships on the principal YouTube site and app let you lot to buy public badges, emoji, and access to creator perks offered by the channel.

Memberships may be priced differently depending on your land, and the platform y'all use.

Join, change levels, or cancel a membership

Go a channel fellow member

Join a participating channel membership on the main YouTube site and app.

  1. Visit youtube.com or open the YouTube app.
  2. Go to the aqueduct of, or a video uploaded by, the creator yous'd like to support and run into if they've enabled memberships on their channel.
  3. Click Join.
  4. Follow the prompts to enter your payment information.
  5. Click Purchase.

You lot'll see a welcome announcement in one case your transaction is complete.

Alter your membership level

To upgrade

  1. Go to the channel homepage of the membership you want to change and clickSee perks.
  2. Select the level you want to join and thenChange level.
  3. SelectUpgrade.
  4. You lot'll immediately get access to the upgraded level upon purchase.
    1. Pricing note: Y'all'll simply be charged the deviation in toll in levels, at an adapted price for the days remaining in your then-current billing cycle.
    2. Case: If you're paying $iv.99 and you upgrade to the $ix.99 level with half a month left until your next payment, you'll be charged ($9.99-$4.99) X (0.5)= $ii.l for the remainder of the month.
  5. Your monthly billing date will not change due to a level upgrade.

To downgrade

  1. Go to the channel homepage of the membership y'all desire to alter and click Encounter perks.
  2. Select the level you want to join and thenChange level.

Billing and access details for downgrades

  • Your monthly billing date volition not change due to a level downgrade.
  • You lot'll get access to your original level until your next billing appointment.
  • You'll exist charged the new lower toll at your side by side billing date.
  • You'll retain whatever accumulated loyalty reflected in your badge if offered by the creator.

You lot'll retain whatsoever accumulated loyalty reflected in your badge if offered past the creator.

Cancel a channel membership

Open the membership management screen past clicking Run into perks on a channel homepage and then selectand then click End membership & perks.

Yous tin can too cancel your membership at whatever fourth dimension by following the steps below on a reckoner:

  1. Sign in to YouTube.
  2. Go to youtube.com/paid_memberships.
  3. Find the aqueduct membership you'd similar to cancel and click Manage membership.
  4. Select Conciliate.
  5. Select End MEMBERSHIP.
  6. You'll see a cancellation confirmation screen.

If yous're having trouble cancelling your membership, larn more here.

Payment and billing information

Billing information

New and existing members

When you have an active paid membership, you'll automatically exist charged at the start of each monthly billing cycle.

Canceled memberships

When y'all cancel a paid channel membership, y'all will non exist charged again unless yous reactivate it. You'll continue to receive membership perks until the stop of that billing menstruum.

Reactivated memberships

You can reactivate your membership at whatever time. If y'all reactivate during the same billing bicycle as you canceled, you lot will not be charged until that current billing cycle ends.

Update your payment info

Y'all tin can change the credit bill of fare used for a paid membership in the My subscriptions section of your Google Account. Note that y'all may need to add a new card to your Google Business relationship outset.

When you have an active paid membership, y'all'll be automatically charged at the start of each monthly billing cycle. You tin view your next billing date and manage your membership at youtube.com/paid_memberships.

How paused channel memberships impact your payments

"Paused mode" explained

Sometimes, aqueduct memberships are put in "paused manner." This may happen if a channel changes MCNs, sets their channel every bit fabricated for kids, or is unable to monetize. When "paused style" happens, it means the channel cannot monetize with memberships -- this is often a temporary country. If a channel is in "paused manner" it means they cannot deliver perks and other benefits.

Payment details

If you're an active paid member of a aqueduct in "paused manner," your monthly recurring payment, billing cycle, and admission to memberships will as well be paused.

If you lot signed up for a channel membership on iOS or Android, your monthly recurring payments may be canceled if the channel is in paused mode after your billing period ends. If this happens, you lot volition be notified that your membership has been canceled and y'all volition be able to bring together again if/when the channel'south membership is unpaused.

Memberships tin can remain paused on a channel for a maximum of 90 days; later that signal, memberships and members' monthly recurring payments will exist canceled.

How terminated channel memberships impact your payment

If a channel terminates or loses access to the memberships feature (e.g., if it's no longer role of the YouTube Partner Program), all memberships monthly recurring payments, and access to all membership perks volition be terminated immediately. Viewers who were members at the time of termination will be sent a termination email with info on requesting a refund.

Channel membership refunds

You may cancel your paid channel membership at any time. In one case you cancel, you won't exist charged once again. Yous'll exist able to employ the badge and have access to creator perks until the stop of the billing cycle. Note that you lot won't be refunded for the period of time between when you cancel and when your channel membership officially ends.

If you observe an unauthorized channel memberships charge on your account, follow these steps to report the unauthorized accuse. If creator perks or other features of your paid channel membership are defective, unavailable, or do not perform equally stated, you lot may contact our support team to asking a refund at whatsoever time. We practise not provide refunds or credits for partially elapsed billing periods.

If you lot're a member who signed up via Apple, you'll demand to contact Apple support to request a refund for your paid channel membership. Apple'south refund policy volition apply.

Channel membership acquirement share with creators

Creators receive 70% of memberships revenue recognized by Google after local sales tax and other fees (depending on country and users' platform) are deducted. Payment processing fees (including credit card fees) are currently covered by YouTube.

Utilise and manage your memberships benefits

Channel membership benefits for all members

When yous become a member, you'll proceeds access to certain benefits. Yous'll become different perks based on the dissimilar levels that y'all join at.

  • Member Milestone Chats: For each calendar month you remain a fellow member (starting from your 2nd sequent month) y'all'll receive ane Fellow member Milestone Chat. Member Milestone Chats are special highlighted messages that can be used in live conversation on alive streams or Premieres. These special letters will highlight how long you've been a member of this aqueduct in total and will be visible to all viewers.
  • Exclusive public-facing membership bluecoat next to your channel name in all comments and alive chats that y'all make on the aqueduct yous're a fellow member of
    • On some channels, the badge will reflect how long you've been a member of a channel, either through dissimilar colored default badges or through different badges uploaded by the channel
  • If yous become a channel member during a live stream on that channel, a brilliant light-green "New Member" message volition be sent in alive conversation and your profile picture is pinned at the height of chat for 5 minutes
  • Access to members-only posts on the channel's Community tab (if offered by the channel)
  • Admission to creator perks which may be offered by the aqueduct and are discipline to change
  • Exclusive access to members-only live conversation (if offered by the channel)
  • Exclusive access to a aqueduct's public-facing custom emoji in live chat (if offered by the channel)
  • "Slow mode" - which limits how oft y'all can comment in live chat - does not apply to active paid members

By condign a channel member, your exclusive membership badge will appear in all comments and alive chats that you make on that channel.

Creator Perks for different levels

Each level has its own cost point. Your perks stack as yous go upward each level. That ways if you join at the most expensive level, you'll become access to perks at all the lower levels.

What practice I go for each level and how practise I join?

This varies from channel to channel. You lot can see the different perks when yous click Join.

I'm already a member, so how practice I see the different perks available?

Become to the channel homepage which yous've already joined and then selectSee perks.

Subscribe to a channel you've joined

If you lot're not already subscribed to the channel you lot are a member of, and so we'll subscribe y'all to that aqueduct. This will let you to see members-simply creator posts in your Subscriptions feed. Y'all can unsubscribe at whatever fourth dimension.

Plow channel membership notifications on or off

When channels that yous're a fellow member of create members-only posts, you'll be notified about them in the Community tab and receive an email unless you lot've opted out of receiving emails from YouTube.

Turn off notifications

If you don't want to know virtually new members-only posts, y'all tin turn off all notifications on your account.

Run across exclusive content in the community tab

Exclusive content is tagged equally "Members-but" in the Community tab. This includes text posts, GIFs, polls, videos, and more.

Study inappropriate perks

If you see an offering that you believe is in breach of YouTube's Community Guidelines (including sexual, fierce or hateful content, misleading offers, or spam), you can report it past clicking Report perks in the offering screen upon clicking the Bring together push (or Encounter perks, if you lot're already a member).

Privacy information

Visible membership condition

One time you bring together a aqueduct, the following info will be publicly visible on YouTube and may be shared by the channel with 3rd-party companies:

  • Your channel URL
  • The name of your YouTube channel
  • A link to your profile picture
  • When you joined the channel as a fellow member
  • The level you're a member of

Annotation: The channel may share this info with a small, select group of third-party companies to provide the channel'south perks.

How your information may be used

Your data above may be seen by other viewers in multiple ways. Some of which may depend on the channel yous've joined. This list is not exhaustive:

  • All members have a visible badge that shows upwards next to your channel proper noun in comments and chat.
  • If you go a aqueduct member during a alive stream on that channel, a vivid green "New Fellow member" message will be sent in live chat and your profile moving-picture show will be pinned at the top of alive chat for 5 minutes which shows your aqueduct name when hovered upon.
  • Some channels may add together your information above to a list of "thank yous" in their videos.
  • Some channels may share your information in a higher place to provide a service (for example, fellow member-only admission to a chatroom hosted past a third-party company).

Check & remove 3rd party site or app access

Remove third-party site or app admission

If you lot gave account access to a site or app y'all no longer trust, you can remove its admission to your Google Business relationship. The site or app won't be able to admission any more info from your Google Account, but yous may need to request that they delete the data they already have.

  1. Go to your Google Business relationship.
  2. On the left navigation panel, select Security.
  3. On the Third-party apps with account admission panel, select Manage 3rd-party access.
  4. Select the site or app you want to remove.
  5. Select Remove Admission.

Study a 3rd-party site or app

Follow these steps if you believe a site or app is misusing your data, similar creating spam, impersonating you, or using your information in harmful ways.

  1. Go to the Apps with access to your account section of your Google Business relationship. You lot might demand to sign in.
  2. Select the app yous want to report and thenReport this app.

Larn more than about account admission for 3rd-political party sites and apps.

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