Accept you e'er wanted to share your thoughts privately with a YouTube creator? Although Google has removed the private messaging option from YouTube, in that location'due south still a way around this.

Since you can't message someone straight on YouTube, you can send a direct email or reach out to a video creator or a channel admin via their social media profiles.

We'll show you how to send a message to a YouTuber via their email address or social links in this post.

How to Transport a Message to Someone on YouTube

Sending a message to a channel on YouTuber only involves a few clicks. Commencement, log in to your account on YouTube, and follow these steps to become started.

How to Contact a YouTube Channel via Email Accost

To message someone via the email address listed on their YouTube channel:

  1. Use the search bar at the elevation of the web app to search for the aqueduct or person you desire to bulletin. Alternatively: Click the username or banner direct under a video to go to the creator'southward channel.
  2. Get to Almost.
  3. Next, scroll down and click VIEW EMAIL ADDRESS. Yous'll only run into this option if the creator has linked the channel with an email accost.
    YouTube channel about page with email link
  4. If prompted, tick the check mark inside the I'm not a robot reCAPTCHA box and hitting Submit to reveal the aqueduct's e-mail address.
  5. Click the listed email accost, or copy and paste it into an electronic mail client to send an email directly to the owner of the channel.

If a YouTuber doesn't have an e-mail address linked to their channel, in that location are other options you tin try out. About creators link their social media profiles similar LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and more to their YouTube channel.

You can access these social media options past visiting the About folio on a YouTube channel.

Scrolling downwards and clicking on their social accounts nether the Links sections will bring you to their social media profile folio. Alternatively, you can run across their social media profile links in the bottom-correct corner of their channel banner at the pinnacle.

Once you land in a YouTuber'south social profile, you can then endeavour to send them a direct bulletin from there.

Send a Public Chat Instead

Sending a public message is some other way to accomplish out to a aqueduct owner on YouTube, provided that they've not disabled comments on a YouTube video. However, the messages yous ship here aren't private, and everyone can run across them.

To send a public chat or annotate on YouTube, go to the channel's home page and click the Community tab (if nowadays). Next, get out a annotate on any of their published posts (if they have any). ​​​​​​

YouTube community page

If y'all'd similar to accomplish out concerning a particular video instead, you can use the search icon at the top of the aqueduct'southward page to search out the video in question.

Next, click the said video and curl downwardly to the comment section. Blazon your message in the annotate field and hit COMMENT.

YouTube comment section

That YouTuber Is Merely a Message Away

While the absenteeism of YouTube DMs seems to create a roadblock to messaging someone straight on YouTube, these alternative ways of sending letters work. For example, sending an email to a YouTuber, as shown, fifty-fifty gives your bulletin official brownie and might even help you connect with a YouTuber more closely.

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