In today's video you're going to learn how to quickly create a Youtube branding
watermark for free. It's one of my super quick tutorials so let's dive in!
Hi, my name is Natalia and welcome to my Youtube channel where I share super actionable ideas on
content creation for entrepreneurs and creatives. So you have your channel art, your videos are well
researched, you put calls to action in your description box and actually say them out
loud as well. What else can you do? Add a Youtube branding watermark to all of your videos with one
simple click! In this video, I'm showing you how to add a generic subscribe button, how to design
your own branded watermark and how to set it all up completely for free and in a matter of minutes!
Plus, I have a bonus for you at the end of the video so make sure to watch till the very end!
Alright, so if you want to add a general button looking something like this , this is how you do
it. First, we're going to search for an image that will work. I googled "Youtube Subscribe
Square" and this is what I got. There's plenty of stuff in here so have a look at what you
like. But before you download it, just make sure that it's free to use. WE'RE NO THIEVES!
This generic Youtube button option is very commonly used even among popular Youtubers
because it's instantly recognizable to viewers on Youtube. They just know what to do when they
see this red button so it's easier for them to subscribe. Plus, is super easy for you to set up.
However, if you want your own personalized Youtube branding watermark, here's what you want to
do. So first, go to Canva.com - if you don't know Canva, it's a free graphic
design tool which is absolutely AMAZING. I used to design all graphics in Photoshop,
but I have to say, with how much Canva has developed recently, I love it SO MUCH now
and I use it on a daily. Once you're logged in, go to create a design and enter custom dimensions.
For the Youtube branding watermark, you need an image that's 150x150 pixels and is 1MB or less.
Now, you have your blank design here. Youtube recommends that your watermark's background is
transparent but actually, I prefer to capitalize on the whole area and since the watermark is so
small, every pixel counts. Therefore, I'm going to pick my color. I'm going to go for yellow here.
You can make it more interesting by adding a gradient as well. For this, you go to elements,
type in gradient and pick this square gradient here. Then, you can adjust your colors and see
what suits your brand or appeals to you. I'm going to stick with yellow for now. Next, we
need to add some text so click this button to the left here, add a heading, doesn't really matter
if you choose a subheading or body text, you can adjust it in a second. Let's go for CLICK HERE TO,
here's where you pick the color again, change your font and size so I'm picking
Raleway which is one of my favorite fonts and adjust it. Brilliant, then on to subscribe, again,
text, this time I'll pick subheading. Yeah, so as you can see, gives you the exact same options,
then let's pick Raleway Heavy for this. Make it smaller, center, and you've got your text
ready. Now Canva comes in with tons of elements and as with the gradient before,
you can simply search for something you like and it gives you so many amazing options. Some of them
are even customizable in that you can change their color which is important if you want to stick to
your branding. I'm going to search for three arrows, I have some options here, let's pick
this one because it's free. You have pro options which usually cost you around a dollar or you can
just choose the free ones. Now that's an animated element - yes, Canva let's you add dynamic
gif-like graphics to your designs and export them as videos which is super useful. For this however,
I'm not going to export it as a video or gif but as a simple PNG file and these arrows will end
up being static. Doesn't bother me at all, I just like the shape. Alright, so you can rotate them,
put them in place and you're done! Click on Download in the top right corner, let's change the
file type to PNG and click download again. And now you're ready to upload your watermark to Youtube.
To do this, go to your Youtube channel, click Customize Channel in the top right corner,
click the Branding tab and scroll to the very bottom. Click change to add your image, ok,
and there we pick if we want this for the whole video, make it custom or display at the end of
the video. Choose the whole video option because you want to always have it there - visible and
calling people over to CLICK CLICK CLICK. Now hit publish, and that's you, done! Easy right?
Let's see how it displays. I have one of my videos opened in another tab, let's refresh and there you
have it, the Youtube branding watermark is there and we made it ourselves completely for free.
Ok but wait a minute, wait a minute, there's one caveat! If
you're looking for this button on your phone now and it's nowhere to be seen,
don't worry. This functionality doesn't show on mobile. So check on desktop to see where it is.
And now onto the bonus which I promised at the beginning! If you can't be bothered with
designing your own on-brand watermark and don't want to search for a free to use image yourself,
I have a few button options which I created myself and these are completely free to use.
I'm just giving them away for you so click the link in the description box and get yourself
a royalty free Youtube branding watermark now.
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