How to get YouTube Official Artist Channel (OAC)
We all want to brand ourselves. We want to look different on a platform where everybody is involved. We are musicians and we have different categories on YouTube. YouTube gives us identity as a musician 🎶
Benefits, feature of Official Artist Channel (OAC)
- You will get a music logo after your name.
- You will get a community tab.
- You can sell concert tickets and merchandise on YouTube.
- You can change YouTube Music profile picture and bio.
- You will show up as a musician with your song mix on youtube when someone searches your name.
Here I am showing you how to get an official artist channel step by step.
After all steps, you should have your 3 songs on “YouTube Music”.
If you have no idea about how to get music on YouTube music read this article where i’m writing about music distribution. Here i will show you how to put your music on YouTube Music, Spotify, itune, deezer etc.Â
Read This : Free Music Distribution
Distribution takes upto 1 month. When your songs are available on youtube music then they will show up your topic channel(artist name -Topic) in youtube. Topic channels is an auto generated channel for your distributed music.Â
How to find your topic channel.
- Go to the youtube search
- Search your artist name given to the distributor (Artist- Topic)
- Go to filter and select channel
- There will show up your topic channel
Officials Artist Channel is a combination of your topic channel and your official channel that you created yourself. You also can combine your vevo channel.
Requirements for Official Artist Channel
- You should have own operating YouTube channel that represents one artist or band
- Have 3 music video youtube delivered and distributed by music distributor or lable
After fulfilling the requirements you are ready to get your official artist channel.Â
You should request a youtube team for your official artist channel by emailing them.
Here is the email templateÂ
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13nk50k35SM1A4T_cbxXqIrJJMX_gfMRn0mXTqwq6mNw/edit?usp=drivesdk
It will take upto 3 months to get your artist channel.
You will get notified when you get your artist channel.
Comment if you have questions 🖤