I run a visa agency in Bali. The other half of my week goes into Apify Actors, and one of them turns YouTube channels into rows you can put in a CRM: subscribers, video count, every link the creator published, their socials, and the business e-mail where there is one.

The assumption everybody brings to that job — mine included, the first week — is that the channel page either has an address or it does not. It does not work like that. YouTube knows about a third address space it will not print, and the field that looks most like "the creator's website" is the one I trust least.

So I ran 30 channels and counted.

The run

Three queries through YouTube's own channel search — wedding photographer , home renovation , indie game developer — ten channels each, 25 October 2026. No handles of my own, nothing hand-picked, so the sample is whatever YouTube ranks.…