An Official Artist Channel (OAC) merges your existing YouTube channel with your official topic channel, giving you one verified home for all your music content, official videos, uploads and auto-generated tracks alike.
Why it matters
An OAC unlocks a verified badge, a customizable banner and "About" artist bio, featured releases, and consolidates view counts that were previously split across multiple auto-generated channels.
How Upload Nations helps
Once you've distributed your first release through Upload Nations, our team can request OAC status on your behalf, since eligibility requires an active distributor relationship and a certain volume of official content.
What happens after approval
YouTube merges your channels, migrates subscribers, and applies Content ID protection automatically to your catalog going forward, so unauthorized re-uploads of your music get flagged and monetized back to you.
It typically takes a few weeks after request for YouTube to process the merge, but the long-term benefit, a single authoritative artist presence, is worth the wait.
