The Google+ connection

- Another service that often interplays with your…YouTube channel is going to be a Google+ account.…Google+ was established to be a competitor to tools…like Facebook, where people can share social content,…and brands could connect with a bigger audience.…Now, the platform has struggled a bit…and has been downsized by Google,…but it still often interacts with YouTube in many ways.…A couple things to keep in mind,…with a Google+ account, this used to be a requirement.…Both YouTube and Google+ are owned, of course, by Google.…

And originally, you had to have a Google+ page…for every YouTube channel that you created.…They've since gotten rid of this requirement…because Google+ just did not take off.…Now, YouTube channels are often connected to a Google+…account, both because this was a requirement in the past,…and it does have certain benefits for finding content.…One of the advantages of Google+ is that…it is a social network so you can reshare…your YouTube videos to a Google+ page,…and that content actually gets indexed,…