How to find a YouTuber's email address

Creators who take sponsorships want to be reachable, so the address is usually somewhere public. The trick is knowing where, because YouTube's layout hides some of it. Work through these in order and stop when you find a business address.

1. 01

   Read the channel description

   Open the channel and click the description under the channel name to open the "About" panel. Look for lines such as "Business inquiries", "Brand deals" or "Contact". Creators often write the address out to dodge spam bots, as in "name [at] domain [dot] com", so read it carefully.

2. 02

   Check the descriptions of recent videos

   Many creators repeat their contact line in every video description, often near the bottom with their gear links. Open three or four recent uploads. A sponsored video's description also tells you who they already work with.

3. 03

   Open the links in the channel header

   The links next to the channel name usually include a website or a link-in-bio page (Linktree, Beacons, Stan and similar). Those pages often have an email button or a "Work with me" link.

4. 04

   Look for a contact or "work with me" page on their website

   On a creator's own site, check the pages named Contact, About, Work with me, Collaborations, Press or Media kit. A media kit, if there is one, usually has the partnerships address and sometimes rates.

5. 05

   Check their other platforms

   Instagram, TikTok and X bios often carry the same business email, or a management address. Instagram business profiles can have an Email button.

6. 06

   Use YouTube's "View email address" button last

   If the About panel shows a "View email address" button, the creator has given YouTube a business email. You have to be signed in and pass a captcha to see it, and YouTube limits how many you can reveal. It's fine to use by hand; it's not something any tool should get around.

Contact lines vary, but they cluster around a few phrasings. Searching the page for these words (Ctrl+F or Cmd+F) finds them faster than reading.

Some creators publish no email at all, or only behind YouTube's captcha. That's a choice, and it's worth respecting. You still have options:

• Use the contact form on their website, if they link one. It reaches the same inbox.
• Send a short direct message on the social account they link from YouTube, saying who you are and asking where to send a partnership proposal.
• If they're signed to a management company or a creator network, the company's site usually lists a partnerships address.

• Check the address is current. A video description from three years ago may list an address the creator no longer reads. Prefer the one in the channel description or on their link page.
• Mention a specific video. Creators get many generic offers. One sentence about a recent video shows you watched it. Our outreach email templates show how.
• Send in your own name, from an address a person reads, not a no-reply, so the creator's answer reaches someone who can act on it.
• Plan one or two follow-ups, not five. See how to follow up with a YouTuber.

Nakodo reads each creator's channel description and the descriptions of their recent uploads, then follows the website and link-in-bio links they publish, checking the contact, about and "work with me" pages it finds there. It respects each site's robots.txt, undoes the usual "[at]" and "[dot]" spellings, and skips placeholder and no-reply addresses.

Nakodo keeps every address with where it was found and when it was last checked. It never gets around YouTube's captcha and never guesses an address: when a creator publishes no email, it says so, and that creator is never contacted. The address itself isn't shown to you. Nakodo emails the creator on your behalf, and you get their address only when they agree and Nakodo introduces you. The full method is on how Nakodo works.