https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/youtube-official-artist-channel https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/youtube-official-artist-channel You cannot apply for a YouTube Official Artist Channel yourself. Your distributor, label or a listed music partner asks for you. This guide sets out the requirements YouTube publishes, how a request through a distributor works in practice, what to fix before you ask, and what can take the badge away again. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:30:00 GMT We are the music makers youtubeofficial-artist-channeldistributionworkflows https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/youtube-official-artist-channel-merge-topic-channel https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/youtube-official-artist-channel-merge-topic-channel An Official Artist Channel folds your auto-generated topic channel and your own channel into one, with one subscriber count and a Releases shelf. You cannot apply yourself; your distributor or label asks for you. Here is who qualifies, how to ask, and what changes on screen. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers workflowsyoutubeofficial-artist-channeldistributionartist-tools