Connect your YouTube channel to your creator page

How to link your YouTube channel in the Creator Studio so your creator page shows your latest videos, and what the status messages mean.

Published 4 Nov 2026, 13:01

If you link your YouTube channel, your creator page automatically shows your three latest public videos in the “YouTube” section. You set up the link in the Creator Studio under Platforms & YouTube.

Linking your channel

Open Platforms & YouTube.
In the “YouTube channel” field, enter your channel ID (it starts with UC), your @handle or your channel address, such as youtube.com/@yourname. Older addresses with /c/ or /user/ aren't supported.
Select Save link.
Check under “Link status” whether everything worked.

If you included a link to your YouTube channel in your application, the channel may already be saved there. Use “Remove link” to disconnect it again. Your page then no longer shows YouTube videos.

What the status messages mean

Active: your channel is linked and updated regularly.
Matching handle or Fetching: we're looking up the channel ID for your @handle or fetching the first videos from YouTube.
Pending: your link is saved, but WANTED SIX can't fetch videos yet. As soon as it can, your videos appear automatically. There's nothing else you need to do.
Handle not found: check the spelling or enter your channel ID directly. Channel not found: check the channel ID or enter your @handle or channel address instead.
Already taken: the channel is already linked to another creator page or set as an official WANTED SIX channel. A channel can only be linked once. If it's your channel, write to us using the contact form.
Fetch failed: it's retried automatically. Videos that were already loaded stay visible.

Good to know

We don't check whether the channel belongs to you, because WANTED SIX doesn't offer signing in with Google for this. The link is therefore neither proof of ownership nor a verification. Only link your own channel.
The videos pulled in aren't posts on WANTED SIX and don't count as published content. If you also want to publish a video here, create it as a clip.
Moderation can hide individual videos. They then don't appear on your page.
You switch the “YouTube” section on or off in the layout of your creator page, see Your creator page.
For security reasons, the number of changes per hour is limited.
Visitors only see the YouTube player once they've consented to “YouTube videos”. Until then, a placeholder is shown. Read more in the cookie policy.

Which channel and video data we retrieve through the YouTube interface is set out in the privacy policy. How to create a clip is explained in Publish creator content.

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Linking your channel

Open Platforms & YouTube.

In the “YouTube channel” field, enter your channel ID (it starts with UC), your @handle or your channel address, such as youtube.com/@yourname. Older addresses with /c/ or /user/ aren't supported.

Select Save link.

Check under “Link status” whether everything worked.

What the status messages mean

Active: your channel is linked and updated regularly.

Matching handle or Fetching: we're looking up the channel ID for your @handle or fetching the first videos from YouTube.

Pending: your link is saved, but WANTED SIX can't fetch videos yet. As soon as it can, your videos appear automatically. There's nothing else you need to do.

Handle not found: check the spelling or enter your channel ID directly. Channel not found: check the channel ID or enter your @handle or channel address instead.

Already taken: the channel is already linked to another creator page or set as an official WANTED SIX channel. A channel can only be linked once. If it's your channel, write to us using the contact form.

Fetch failed: it's retried automatically. Videos that were already loaded stay visible.

Good to know

We don't check whether the channel belongs to you, because WANTED SIX doesn't offer signing in with Google for this. The link is therefore neither proof of ownership nor a verification. Only link your own channel.

The videos pulled in aren't posts on WANTED SIX and don't count as published content. If you also want to publish a video here, create it as a clip.

Moderation can hide individual videos. They then don't appear on your page.

You switch the “YouTube” section on or off in the layout of your creator page, see Your creator page.

For security reasons, the number of changes per hour is limited.

Visitors only see the YouTube player once they've consented to “YouTube videos”. Until then, a placeholder is shown. Read more in the cookie policy.

Which channel and video data we retrieve through the YouTube interface is set out in the privacy policy. How to create a clip is explained in Publish creator content.