Seeing familiar faces on YouTube through Google+

As you surf through YouTube's decorative vegetable carvings, wingsuit flying videos and Hindi lessons, you might start to notice some familiar names and faces. That's because today we're adding a feature that lets you sign up for a new YouTube channel using your existing Google+ profile. You can now use your Google+ profile name and photo on a new YouTube channel, giving you one consistent identity across platforms when uploading videos, sharing, commenting and other public activities.

Today�s update gives the more than 100 million of you on Google+, who are already able to watch YouTube in Hangouts and share videos with your Circles, another way to bring the best of Google+ directly into your YouTube experience.

Here�s what you�ll see if you sign up for a new YouTube channel and you already have a Google+ profile. If you want this to be your channel name and photo, just click OK, �I�m ready to continue.�



If you want to create a YouTube channel that�s different from your Google+ profile (e.g. �KatnissForPresident�), click �Create a username,� and you�ll have the option to create a YouTube channel as usual. It looks like this:



This is currently available on the English version of YouTube and we�re looking to roll it out across languages in coming months. Also, if you already have a YouTube channel and want to connect it to your Google+ profile�stay tuned. We�ll be following feedback on this update and hope to add more features that bring the best of Google+ into YouTube.

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