How to tag someone in YouTube

Mar 22, 2021 • 2 min read

YouTube allows tagging or mentioning someone either in YouTube title or description.

Here is how to tag someone in YouTube.

Open YouTube studio (on desktop) or YouTube app (on mobile) and start uploading new video.

In title you will see: "type @ to mention a channel".

In description: "type @ to mention a channel".

You need to tag a YouTube channel - however I am not sure if it is a channel username or channel name.

Here is how to tag someone in YouTube on mobile

Tag someone in title

Or/and tag someone in description

3. After channel is tagged it will have a grey background.

4. On the uploaded video, it will appear as a blue clickable link in title or description.

5. Upload video.

Note, on mobile, it is not possible to edit video later and tag someone - only in new uploaded videos.

On desktop it is possible to tag someone in already uploaded videos.

That is basically it.