Migrating Youtube Channels

[DRSearchEngOpt]

Does anybody have any advice for migrating Youtube Channels.  In other words there is one account with a handful of videos and another account with a handful of videos  and we will want to migrate them to just one account.  Is it really just re-uploading them and deleting the older account or is there more to this than that?

Thanks,
Chris Birkholm

[RyanPurkey]

The official Youtube take on it is here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2404846

Unfortunately, you can’t merge or link separate YouTube channels. Similarly, you can’t transfer data from one channel to another (this includes videos).

However, you can download your videos from your own channel. Once you've downloaded your video, you can re-upload it to a different channel. View count and other statistics will start over for the new upload.

That's the official version.

[MERGE-Chicago]

I don't know specifically about migrating channels in detail, but I do know that Google and Youtube will only crawl and index youtube videos and their information when initially uploaded. So keep this in mind if you're thinking of re-using and maybe re-optimizing the videos, as it won't hold as much value as re-uploading them fresh.