Hello, everyone. Welcome back to my channel, Jennifer Marie,
where I teach you how to become a work from home
freelancer. I also talk about how to become successful as a
YouTuber and how to make money on YouTube. In today's video,
I'm going to teach you how to add a custom subscribe button
to all of your YouTube videos. If you are trying to become a
YouTuber, and you have videos on YouTube, it is so important
that you create this video watermark, which essentially
is a subscribe button or a branding button that people
will see on your videos and can so easily click and
subscribe to your channel. I'm going to show you how exactly
you add that and how to create one for free using Canva.
First of all, if you're not sure what I'm talking about,
I'm talking about this button right here, you can see that I
have designed one that is a subscribe button, I actually
might change this color to red, so it captures the
attention more. But right now I have it as purple because
that is sort of my brand color. And basically, every
time anyone watches any video of mine, this button will pop
up that someone could just click and easily click
Subscribe. Another thing that you can do and here's an
example, this guy has his brand, which is Donut Media.
If someone hovers their mouse over donut, it also gives you
the option to subscribe. So it's up to you if you want to
create a custom subscribe button or if you want to put
your logo down here. So the first thing we need to do is
go to Canva. Again, Canva is free, you can sign up to Canva
by using my referral link in the description below this
video. And once you sign up, all you have to do is click
create a design and then click here on custom size. And let's
just put 300 by 300 pixels. The actual pixel dimension on
YouTube is 150 by 150. So I just double it, I just find
that I get better quality that way. And then I'm going to
click create new design. So the first thing you're going
to do is decide what color background you want. Let's say
we want to create a red subscribe button, we're going
to click on the square, then click on this color wheel. And
then you can select red, or you can click on this plus
icon and choose exactly the shade of red you want or
whatever color you want. Then we're going to click here on
elements. And we're going to type in YouTube. And then here
you can use any of these to encourage people to subscribe.
So let's say I want to click on this one here. You can see
it blends in and we don't want that. So what I'm going to do
is click here on the red color and change this to white, and
then click on this white color and change it to red. And then
you can just click and drag it where you want it and you can
also increase the size. This is a really small icon as you
can see here. So I want to make that YouTube button as
big as possible. And you want to place it in the center.
Okay, now we're going to add text, we're going to click
here on text and click add a heading. And then we're going
to type in subscribe. I'm going to do this in capital
letters. And then just click on it to position it where you
want it, you can click on these handles to adjust the
size. Click and drag it out and center it and then click
here on the text color and change that to white. And then
here we can adjust the font, whichever font that you like,
I want one that's bold and captures the attention. Let's
go with inter and then I'm going to select bold, so it's
nice and big. And then again, you can just adjust that how
you want it and sent her it. Perfect. Then to download it,
we're going to go share, download, and then you can
select the file type. So you can do JPG or PNG and then
just click download. So now you have your custom subscribe
button. Again, you can play around with this, you could
change the color to match your branding, let's say my
branding for my Sparkle English channel are these sort
of blue turquoise ones, you can click on the element and
then click on any of the color boxes to change it. So you can
just play around with it to make it exactly how you want
or just play around with the font. And to add this to all
of our videos, go to your channel. This is my English
channel and I have yet to do this video watermark so I'm
losing out on potential subscribers. So I want to
change that now. We're going to click Customize channel.
Then you're going to go to branding. And this is where
you can add your profile picture your banner image, and
here video watermark. So the watermark will appear on your
videos in the right hand. corner of the video player. So
here, you're going to click upload, we'll locate our
subscribe button that we just created, double click on it,
and then here it gives you a chance to crop it, you can see
that mine is already perfect. So then click Done. And this
looks really big, but I promise you, it will not be
this big on your videos. Here, you can change the display
time. So you customize when the watermark is displayed on
your videos. So you can choose the end of the video, the
entire video or a custom start time. So I like to do maybe a
few seconds and because then you actually see it popping
in. So let's do the custom start time of five seconds in,
and then click publish. Okay, so now it will instantly be on
all of your YouTube videos, which is great because it's
going to encourage people to subscribe if they forget to.
So let's go and test it out. Okay, so let's click on one of
my recent videos. Okay, it's starting from the beginning.
And you can see the little button has just popped up
right here. It's small, but it does encourage people to
subscribe. I really do like this red color, I think it
really pops out and it makes it obvious that it's a
Subscribe button. Now you can also add your logo if you
want, you can see that this guy has Donut like I said
before, so if you want to add your logo, so you want to
brand all of your videos, instead of creating a
subscribe button, you're going to click on uploads. After you
create your custom size of 300 by 300 pixels, click on
uploads go to upload files, select your logo on your
computer or create a logo, then you're going to double
click on it. And that will add it to this page. And then
we're going to click and drag it to make it as big as we
possibly can on the screen. So there we go. And what we want
to do is export this so we don't have the white
background. So what you'll do is go share, download, and
then here click transparent background. Now you do need
the pro version of Canva to do this. So if you don't have the
Pro version, you could also just export it like this with
the white background, or you can just stick to doing a
Subscribe button. Then you're going to click download. Okay,
so now when we go to channel customization, we're going to
click Change and locate your logo. Again, click Done. And
you can see here that it will be transparent. Now I'm not
sure how I liked that because the font is quite small. And
then make sure to click publish. So now let's see what
that will look like. Okay, and you can see it's really small
here this Sparkle English logo, so I would either have
to go in and change that. Or I personally prefer just to do
the subscribe button unless I had a logo that was a little
bit more like this. So it's really just that easy to
create your own custom subscribe button or your own
branded video watermark so you can continue to grow your
channel and eventually make money on your YouTube channel.
If you want more tutorials on how to become a YouTuber or
how YouTube works, make sure to click on the playlist in
the description below to watch my other videos related to
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videos like this one and I will see you in my next
tutorial.