Go a channel member on YouTube

Aqueduct memberships on the main YouTube site and app allow you to purchase public badges, emoji, and access to creator perks offered past the channel.

Memberships may be priced differently depending on your land, and the platform you use.

Join, change levels, or cancel a membership

Get a aqueduct 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 channel of, or a video uploaded by, the creator you'd like to support and run across if they've enabled memberships on their channel.
  3. Click or tap Join.
  4. Follow the prompts to enter your payment information.
  5. Click or tap Buy.

You'll see a welcome proclamation one time your transaction is consummate.

Change your membership level

To upgrade

  1. Go to the channel homepage of the membership you desire to change and tapMeet perks.
  2. Select the level you desire to join and thenChange level.
  3. SelectUpgrade.
  4. You lot'll immediately get access to the higher level.
    • Pricing note: You'll only be charged the difference in toll in levels, at an adjusted price. For example, if yous upgrade half-way through your billing calendar month, you'll exist charged the [|Original Toll - New Cost|] ten [50%].
    • Example: If you're paying $4.99 and yous're irresolute to $9.99 with half a calendar month left until your next payment, you'll exist charged ($9.99-$4.99)X (0.5)=$two.50.

To downgrade

  1. Go to the aqueduct homepage of the membership yous desire to modify and tapCome across perks.
  2. Select the level you want to joinand then Change level.

Billing and admission details for downgrades

  • You'll get access to your original level until your side by side payment date.
  • You lot'll exist charged the new lower price at your next billing date.
  • You'll retain any accumulated loyalty reflected in your badge if offered past the creator.

Update or cancel a channel membership

Open the membership management screen by clicking See perks on a channel homepage and then selectand then click End membership & perks.

You can likewise cancel your membership at any fourth dimension past following the steps below:

  1. Sign in to YouTube.
  2. Tap your profile movie.
  3. Select "Purchases and memberships".
  4. Select the membership you want to cancel.
  5. Tap DEACTIVATE.
  6. TapStop MEMBERSHIP.

If you're having trouble cancelling your membership, learn more here.

Opt-in and get gift memberships

Memberships gifting is in Beta. This feature is simply available on participating channels for purchase or redemption. Channel members must use a spider web browser to make the purchase, but Viewers can opt-in and get gifts using web, Android, or iOS devices.

Viewers must opt-in to be eligible for gift memberships. One time you lot opt-in to let gifts on a channel, you're eligible to get souvenir memberships on any current or time to come gifts given on that channel.

To opt in for gift memberships, you must be signed in with a YouTube channel that isn't a Brand Account. Bank check if you're on a Brand Account. Right now, channel members aren't eligible to get gift memberships.

To opt in for souvenir memberships:

  1. Go to an eligible channel'due south live stream or Premiere.
  2. Within the Live chat, when in that location's a gift announcement, tap or click ALLOW GIFTS, which opens on the gift announcement.
  3. Confirm you'd similar to opt in by turning on the "Allow gifts on this channel" switch.

​​Note: If you're selected for a gift membership, your channel name is visible to the public. This info may also be available to the aqueduct through our YouTube Data API Service and the channel may share this info with 3rd-party services.

To opt-out of allowing gifts from a channel, go to your gift settings in My Activity.

Getting a gift membership:

When a channel member buys gift memberships, it's announced in the live conversation. If you lot've been selected to become a i-month membership, a notification will surface in the live chat and we'll send you an email notification.

Gift memberships are non-refundable and cannot exist exchanged for cash value. All gift memberships give up to 1 month of admission to channel membership perks and elapse thereafter.

To view your membership benefits and admission perks:

  • Click or tap the 'Memberships' tab on the channel you have become a member of, OR
  • Click or tap SEE PERKS on any video folio of that channel.

Payment and billing data

Billing information

New and existing members

When you take an active paid membership, you'll automatically be charged at the offset of each monthly billing bicycle.

Canceled memberships

When you cancel a paid aqueduct membership, yous volition not be charged once again unless you reactivate it. You lot'll proceed to receive membership perks until the stop of that billing period.

Reactivated memberships

You can reactivate your membership at whatsoever fourth dimension. If you reactivate during the same billing cycle as y'all canceled, you will not be charged until that current billing wheel ends.

Update your payment info

You can change the credit card used for a paid membership in the My subscriptions department of your Google Account. Note that you may need to add together a new card to your Google Business relationship kickoff.

When you have an active paid membership, you'll exist automatically charged at the start of each monthly billing bike. You tin view your side by side billing appointment and manage your membership at youtube.com/paid_memberships.

How paused channel memberships bear on your payments

"Paused fashion" explained

Sometimes, channel memberships are put in "paused mode." This may happen if a channel changes MCNs, sets their aqueduct as made for kids, or is unable to monetize. When "paused mode" happens, it means the aqueduct cannot monetize with memberships -- this is often a temporary state. If a channel is in "paused style" information technology ways they cannot deliver perks and other benefits.

Payment details

If yous're an agile paid fellow member of a channel in "paused style," your monthly recurring payment, billing cycle, and admission to memberships will also be paused.

If yous signed upwardly for a channel membership on iOS or Android, your monthly recurring payments may be canceled if the channel is in paused style after your billing period ends. If this happens, y'all will be notified that your membership has been canceled and you will exist able to join once again if/when the channel's membership is unpaused.

Memberships can remain paused on a channel for a maximum of xc days; after that betoken, memberships and members' monthly recurring payments volition be canceled.

How terminated channel memberships touch on your payment

If a channel terminates or loses access to the memberships feature (e.one thousand., if information technology is no longer part of the YouTube Partner Program), all memberships monthly recurring payments, and access to all membership perks will exist terminated immediately. Viewers who were members at the fourth dimension of termination will be sent a termination e-mail with info on requesting a refund.

Aqueduct membership refunds

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

If you notice an unauthorized aqueduct memberships accuse on your account, follow these steps to written report the unauthorized charge. If creator perks or other features of your paid channel membership are defective, unavailable, or practise not perform every bit stated, you may contact our back up squad to request a refund at whatsoever time. We do not provide refunds or credits for partially elapsed billing periods.

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

Channel membership acquirement share with creators

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

Utilise and manage your memberships benefits

Channel membership benefits for all members

When y'all go a fellow member, you'll gain access to sure benefits. You'll get different perks based on the unlike levels that you bring together at.

  • Member Milestone Chats: For each month you remain a member (starting from your second consecutive month) you'll receive one Member Milestone Conversation. Member Milestone Chats are special highlighted messages that tin can be used in alive chat on alive streams or Premieres. These special messages will highlight how long you've been a member of this channel in total and volition be visible to all viewers.
  • Exclusive public-facing membership badge side by side to your channel name in all comments and live chats that you make on the channel you're a member of
    • On some channels, the bluecoat will reverberate how long yous've been a member of a channel, either through different colored default badges or through different badges uploaded by the channel
  • If you become a aqueduct member during a live stream on that channel, a vivid light-green "New Member" message will exist sent in alive chat and your profile picture is pinned at the height of chat for 5 minutes
  • Admission to members-but posts on the aqueduct's Community tab (if offered past the aqueduct)
  • Access to creator perks which may be offered by the channel and are field of study to modify
  • Exclusive access to members-only live chat (if offered by the aqueduct)
  • Sectional access to a channel's public-facing custom emoji in live chat (if offered by the aqueduct)
  • "Slow mode" - which limits how frequently y'all tin can comment in alive chat - does not apply to active paid members

By condign a aqueduct member, your sectional membership badge volition appear in all comments and live chats that you lot make on that channel.

Creator Perks for different levels

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

What do I get for each level and how do I join?

This varies from channel to channel. You tin can run across the different perks when you click Bring together.

I'm already a member, then how do I see the unlike perks available?

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

Subscribe to a channel y'all've joined

If you're not already subscribed to the channel yous are a member of, and so we'll subscribe you to that channel. This will allow y'all to run across members-only creator posts in your Subscriptions feed. Yous can unsubscribe at any time.

Turn channel membership notifications on or off

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

Turn off notifications

If yous don't desire to know about new members-only posts, you tin can turn off all notifications on your account.

See exclusive content in the customs tab

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

Report inappropriate perks

If yous see an offer that you believe is in alienation of YouTube'due south Customs Guidelines (including sexual, trigger-happy or hateful content, misleading offers, or spam), you can report information technology past clicking Study perks in the offering screen upon clicking the Bring together push (or See perks, if you're already a member).

Privacy information

Visible membership status

Once y'all join a channel, the post-obit info will exist publicly visible on YouTube and may be shared by the channel with 3rd-party companies:

  • Your channel URL
  • The proper noun of your YouTube channel
  • A link to your profile moving-picture show
  • When you joined the channel as a member
  • The level you lot're a member of

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

How your information may be used

Your information to a higher place may be seen past other viewers in multiple ways. Some of which may depend on the channel you've joined. This list is not exhaustive:

  • All members have a visible bluecoat that shows up next to your channel proper noun in comments and chat.
  • If you go a channel member during a alive stream on that channel, a bright dark-green "New Member" bulletin volition be sent in live chat and your profile movie volition be pinned at the superlative of live chat for 5 minutes which shows your channel name when hovered upon.
  • Some channels may add your information higher up to a list of "thank yous" in their videos.
  • Some channels may share your information above to provide a service (for instance, member-only access to a chatroom hosted past a 3rd-political party company).

Cheque & remove 3rd party site or app admission

Remove 3rd-party site or app access

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

  1. Become to your Google Account.
  2. On the left navigation console, select Security.
  3. On the 3rd-party apps with account admission console, select Manage 3rd-party access.
  4. Select the site or app you lot desire to remove.
  5. Select Remove Access.

Report a 3rd-political party site or app

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

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

Larn more about account access for third-political party sites and apps.

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