This is quite a common thing on YouTube – we might be watching someone’s video, and really want to contact them regarding something they said, for business opportunities, or something else.

But the YouTube interface can look overwhelming and complicated, and it might not be initially obvious whether you can even find a channel owner’s email in all the menus, or if so where it’s usually displayed.

In this brief guide we’ll show you how to find someone’s email on YouTube, if they’ve chosen to make it available. Here are the the quick steps:

1. Make sure you are logged in to YouTube
2. Go to a channel’s main home page tab
3. Click on the links section underneath the channel name
4. Scroll down to Channel details.
5. An email address will be available on some channels.

Therefore, it’s actually quite easy to find a channel owner’s email on YouTube, if they’ve chosen to publish it. You can find it in just a few simple steps as long as you’re also logged into YouTube.

However, not all YouTube channel owners choose to publish their email, so we’ll also cover some other ways to find a channel owner’s address if it isn’t displayed on the About tab of their channel.

Finding A YouTube Channel Owner’s Email (Illustrated Steps)

Here’s are the steps to find a channel owner’s email on YouTube (if available), together with screenshots.

Make sure you are logged into your YouTube channel before starting these steps. You cannot access a channel owner’s email if you are logged out of YouTube.

Step #1 – Go to the Channel’s main page – If you’re watching a video from a channel, and you want to find their email, firstly click the channel name under any video to go to the general Channel page:

 

Step #2 – This step has recently changed, There used to be a specific About tab on a channel page, but this is not there now. You have to click on the links sections underneath the channel name. It’ll give one link associated with the channel/creator, and then say “and X more links”. Click on this:

 

Step #3 – An About page then load, and the details of the channel or channel owner are often listed. Scroll down to Channel Details and sometimes the email is just displayed; other times it’s listed behind a View Email Address Button:

 

Step #4 – Complete Captcha – Click on the View Email Address button, and a quick captcha challenge comes up to complete:

This is just to make sure you’re a real person and not a robot scraping the internet for email addresses. Check the I’m not a robot box, and complete the captcha that comes up and click Submit.

The email address should then be displayed for you to contact the channel owner.

Other Ways Of Finding a Channel Owner’s Email

It has to be said that not all channel owners put their email address on YouTube for all to access, even when protected by a Captcha. Sometimes they don’t put it on at all, either because they haven’t got round to it, or for privacy purposes. Some channels are just too big to have an email on there that everyone could contact – they’d be flooded and wouldn’t be able to cope with all the emails.

In these cases, there might still be some more roundabout ways you can get their email address to contact them.

Here are some suggestions of other things you can try:

1. Simple Web Search – Sometimes a simple web search can turn up someone’s email, especially if they have multiple websites and/or business. Just type in the YouTube creator’s name plus “email address”, plus the name of their channel/website/business and see what comes up. Sometimes you might find an email.

2. Follow Channel Links – If there’s no email listed on the About tab, or in any video descriptions, then another thing you can do is check out all of their websites and social media profiles they link out to from their channels, to see if there’s an email listed somewhere there instead. Many channels have a links strip right on their banner at the top of the channel, often viewable from all tabs:

Be sure to click on all of these links, and check out their websites and social media for any email addresses they might have there.

3. Contact Form On Website – A more indirect way of contacting someone. They might not have an actual email listed on their websites you click to, but look for any Contact or About Us page, where there might be a Jotform or embedded contact form you can use to get in touch with them.