YouTube QR Code Generator
Print cannot move. A YouTube code fixes that — a scan on a poster, a manual or a box puts your video on the screen the person is already holding.
Make your YouTube QR code
Redirect to a YouTube channel
Enter the URL of your YouTube channel or video
This code is static and permanent. To change where it points after printing, .
Why Use This Tool
Create a free QR code for your YouTube channel or a specific video. Scan to watch or subscribe instantly. No signup, PNG, SVG and PDF downloads.
Free, Unlimited, No Signup
Generate as many QR codes as you need without an account, a trial, or a credit card. Free codes carry a small linkutm wordmark in the bottom corner; create an account to replace it with your own logo or remove it entirely.
Your Data Never Leaves the Browser
Every code is encoded and rendered locally in JavaScript. Wi-Fi passwords, contact details, and campaign URLs are never uploaded to a server or logged anywhere.
Designed, Not Just Generated
Twelve ready-made designs pairing eight module styles with shaped finder patterns, brand colours, and gradients. Export a code that looks like it belongs on your packaging, not like a default black square.
Print-Ready PNG, SVG, and PDF
Download a 1200px PNG for digital, a vector SVG that scales to a billboard without a single soft edge, or a print-ready PDF. Copy straight to the clipboard when you just need it in a deck.
How It Works
- 1
Pick channel or video, and mean it
A channel code is for building an audience and belongs on brand print, packaging and event material. A video code is for delivering one specific piece of content — an assembly guide, a demo, a case study — and belongs next to the thing it explains. Mixing the two wastes both.
- 2
Copy the address from the browser bar
Use youtube.com/@yourchannel for a channel and a standard watch or youtu.be link for a video. Avoid the embed URL, which is meant to sit inside a page and behaves oddly when opened directly.
- 3
Add a start time when the useful part is buried
Appending a start parameter drops the viewer into the exact moment that matters. On a printed instruction sheet this is the difference between a viewed answer and a person scrubbing through an intro they did not ask for.
- 4
Tell them what they are getting and how long it takes
'Scan to watch the 2-minute setup guide' beats a bare code and beats 'Watch on YouTube'. The runtime matters more than people expect — a stated short duration removes the main reason someone decides not to scan.
Subscribe prompts and channel codes
Adding ?sub_confirmation=1 to a channel URL opens the subscribe dialogue on arrival, which lifts conversion noticeably on print aimed at building an audience. Use it where the ask is genuinely to subscribe — a creator's flyer, a merch insert, an end-of-talk slide. Do not use it on an instruction manual, where the visitor came for an answer and a subscribe prompt reads as an ambush.
The strongest placement is documentation
The highest-value YouTube codes are rarely on marketing. They are on assembly instructions, appliance labels, tool packaging and service manuals, where a two-minute video answers what three paragraphs and a diagram cannot. Companies that do this well see support contacts fall, and the same video works across every language market because the demonstration carries most of the meaning.
Platform views are not attribution
YouTube tells you the view happened; it will not tell you it happened because of your packaging. Route the code through a tracked short link and the scan is recorded before YouTube sees it — with time, city and device — so you can compare the manual insert against the shelf label against the poster in one report.
Free Tool vs linkutm Platform
Every code on this page is free to make and never expires. The linkutm platform adds the parts a printed code cannot do on its own — editing the destination, and counting the scans.
Frequently Asked Questions
Want To Know Who Scanned It?
A dynamic QR code keeps the same printed pattern while you change where it points, and shows you every scan — when, where, and on what device.
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