YouTube has quietly removed the “reveal email” option from users’ accounts. Previously, if a creator chose to make an email address publicly available, users could find it by navigating to the channel’s ‘About’ section and clicking on the “reveal email” button.
The removal of the “reveal email” options was first discovered by Pirate PR, who issued the following PSA to creators on X:
“Creators, PLEASE put your email somewhere public where we can find it. YouTube has been THE way for us to allow us to reach out to so many of you that we now consider some of our best contacts…and this tool has just been taken away from gaming PR.”
Creators react to YouTube change
Across the platform, creators in the gaming industry specifically lamented the change.
“The sad thing is when I was doing marketing for my game, there were so many times where creators didn’t have ANY way to contact them,” one creator said. “[A]nd sometimes, using Reveal Email on YouTube was the only way I could get in contact with some of them.”
Another YouTuber added: “It was the easiest way to reach out for collabs videos… Why must everything become so difficult?”
Update July 15, 2024, 4:30pm CT: YouTube appears to have reinstated the “view email address” field.
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