The personal-touch marketplace for verified aged YouTube channels. Browse listings, contact us about the one you want, and we coordinate the official Brand-Account transfer personally, typically completed within 24 to 48 hours. No checkout, no upfront payment, every deal handled by a real human.
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YouTube channel prices and rankings vary wildly by niche. Finance and B2B channels carry the highest CPMs (and the highest resale price per subscriber), while entertainment and vlog channels trade larger audiences for thinner per-view revenue. Pick the niche that matches the strategy you're actually going to run.
Finance
$12–26 CPM, the highest-monetizing niche on the platform. Best for buyers with editorial pipelines around credit cards, investing, real estate, or B2B SaaS.
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Business
$8–25 CPM. Strong overlap with finance and tech audiences. Strong fit if you sell courses, consulting, or B2B services.
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Tech
$6–20 CPM. SaaS reviews, devices, AI, dev tutorials. Great long-form retention and a clean monetization profile.
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Crypto
$10–28 CPM with sponsor opportunities on top. Volatile but high-upside if you operate during bull cycles.
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Gaming
$2–6 CPM but huge audience pools. Best for buyers planning Shorts-heavy content or building communities for sponsorship deals.
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Education
$3–8 CPM and very high search-driven evergreen traffic. Tutorials, language learning, science explainers all fit here.
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Lifestyle
$2–5 CPM. Wide audience, sponsor-friendly. Vlogs, daily-life content, productivity, minimalism.
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Health
$4–10 CPM. Strong demand and trust-driven retention. Watch policy compliance carefully on medical claims.
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Fitness
$3–8 CPM. Sponsor-friendly (apparel, supplements). Workout programs and routines monetize well long-term.
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Don't see your niche? Browse the full marketplace or tell us what you're looking for.
Step by step
The full process, from picking a channel to taking ownership, takes most buyers 1 to 3 days. Here's exactly how it works on TheChannelMarket (TCM).
Use the marketplace filters, niche, subscribers, monthly views, monetization status, creation year. Every listing carries verified stats screenshotted directly from YouTube Studio, plus the channel's creation year and policy history. Channels we won't list: those with bought subscribers, undisclosed strikes, or signs of view manipulation.
Click 'Contact to buy' on the channel page. The form is pre-filled with the channel title, you add your name + email + any specific questions. We reply by email within 24 hours, or you can chat instantly with us on Telegram if you want to move faster.
We confirm availability, talk through the payment method (bank transfer, escrow service, or crypto, whichever fits both sides), and pin down the timeline. Nothing moves until the deal is agreed in writing, by email or Telegram chat. Because no payment is taken upfront on this site, your refund risk is structurally limited.
We initiate the official YouTube Brand Account transfer to your Google account. You receive a Google email invitation, click accept, and the channel appears in your YouTube Studio. Full process typically completes within 24 to 48 hours. You confirm access in writing, only then is the transaction final.
Need the full how-to with due-diligence checklist, transfer mechanics in detail and post-transfer warm-up plan?
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Estimated fair value
$1,739
$1,305 – $2,174
Quick estimate. For a precise valuation including age, strikes and 3-step verification, open the full tool.
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Pricing reference
YouTube channel prices are driven by five intersecting signals, subscriber quality, view momentum, account age, monetization status, and policy history. There's no fixed rate per subscriber: a finance channel with 10K real subs can be worth 10× an entertainment channel with the same count. Here are typical ranges seen on aged-channel marketplaces in 2026:
| Channel profile | Niche | Status | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1K subs · 2K views/mo · 2018 | Gaming | Not monetized | $100 – $300 |
| 5K subs · 15K views/mo · 2015 | Tech | YPP-eligible | $700 – $1,400 |
| 10K subs · 50K views/mo · 2014 | Finance | Monetized | $5,000 – $9,000 |
| 50K subs · 200K views/mo · 2017 | Entertainment | Monetized | $6,000 – $11,000 |
| Pre-2010 · 500 subs · dormant | Any | Not eligible | $120 – $250 |
| 100K subs · 500K views/mo · 2012 | Finance | Monetized | $30,000 – $55,000 |
Want a precise estimate for your specific channel? The full value calculator adds creation year, strikes status and 3-step verification on top of the inputs above for a sharper range.
Why TheChannelMarket
Most YouTube channels are sold on Reddit, Discord, FameSwap or by cold DM. Some of those channels are real. Many aren't, and even the legitimate ones come with zero recourse if the transfer doesn't go through. We're a small operation that picks this fight differently.
No checkout robot. We coordinate every transaction personally, from the first contact form to the moment you confirm channel access. You always know who you're talking to.
We never collect payment on this site. Funds only move after the deal is agreed in writing and the payment method (bank, escrow service, or crypto) is decided together. Refund risk is structurally limited.
Brand Account ownership transfer is the same mechanism Google documents for any business handing off a brand. No password sharing, no account hijacking, no workarounds.
Every channel is checked in YouTube Studio before listing, subscribers, watch hours, creation date, and policy history are all verified against the live dashboard, not screenshots.
We negotiate in English, French and Spanish. Channels we list have audiences from every region, you can talk to us in the language that matches your audience target.
Async by email when you want time to think, or live on Telegram when you want to move now. We typically reply within minutes during business hours.
The flow at a glance
Explore vetted, aged channels across niches. Every listing has verified stats, screenshots, and creation year.
Click Contact on any channel and tell us a bit about you. We reply by email within 24 hours, or you can chat with us on Telegram instantly.
Once we agree on the deal we walk you through the official YouTube brand-account transfer. The payment method is whatever we agree on together, bank transfer, escrow service, crypto. No platform middleman.
Safety + legality
Yes, when it's done the official way. YouTube channels live inside Google Brand Accounts. Brand Accounts are explicitly transferable: you add a new Google account as Owner, the previous owner removes themselves, and the channel becomes the new owner's property. The transfer is recorded in the account's audit history. That's the mechanism we use for every sale, and it's the same one Google documents for any business handing off ownership.
What's not allowed is selling a personal Google account itself (against Google's ToS) or sharing passwords. We never do either. If a seller anywhere asks for your Google password or offers to give you theirs, that's a hijack, refuse it and report them. The brand-account flow we use never requires either side to know the other's password.
One disclosure that matters: YouTube's recommendation algorithm reads sudden uploading-behavior changes as suspicious. Best practice after taking ownership is a 14-day warm-up, log in occasionally, watch a few videos signed in, wait before posting anything new. We walk every buyer through this in the contact thread.
Built on trust
Every deal handled by a real human, not a checkout robot.
Every channel audited via YouTube Studio.
We're reachable both ways, 24h email or instant Telegram.
We list a few new aged channels each week. Subscribers get a heads-up before they go public.
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FAQ
Find your aged YouTube channel today. Contact us about the one you want, we coordinate the official transfer personally, typically completed within 24h.