So how do you come up with creative names for your YouTube channel
for your website things like that we are going to talk about it in this video
welcome to video influencers I am Benji Sean and we are here to teach you
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How to deal with the challenge of finding a name for your YouTube channel
now this is just a challenge for any platforms so it's not just isolated to YouTube
but today specifically we are going to be talking about your YouTube channel
what would be the first thing you'd suggest when it comes to your YouTube channel
name ? Well the first thing I think about Benji is that you wanna think about all
of your platforms because and this will apply to anything so if you are looking
for a website name or a YouTube channel name I would start thinking ok
I have an idea but now I need to see if it's available on social media maybe you know
the main platforms that I want to use and so the first thing that I would say is
to start with a focus like what's the focus of your channel gonna be now here's
an easy one your name - oh totally - if you are not John Smith that's taken
you can have seancannell.com nobody else was competing for that and you
ask your self is your channel just gonna be your name ? but if it's not going to be
your name you think about what is your focus and so you can think about it
if it's going to be a cooking channel what would you do if you are going to start
off trying to create a new YouTube channel in the cooking space - Yeah I mean
it all depends on where you want to bring your content you know do you want
to be specific niche like super bowl food recipes or you want to be more generic
you just want to do just whatever recipe you think of right ? so those are things I consider when
coming up with my name for you know YouTube channels yeah let's think even
cooking I think the more focus you are the better because it will make you limited
but it's also good so if you had a cooking channel you could do if you called it
Asian cooking with some body or you just said Asian cooking then that's going to be
very focus but still specific and people are going to know if they want to
buy into that cooking in general might be a little too broad Yeah totally
and it's probably taken yeah so having a focus is huge so then the second
thing you want to do is you want to look to see if that name is available and so
I like to go to like godaddy.com and not only check your YouTube name to see is
its available on YouTube but check on the social platforms to see if it's
available and one way to test that is literally just type in youtube.com/ what you want
to call your channel but then also do that on twitter and then even go to the URL
and start looking for your name as well You know its definitely worth the effort to
find a good name for your channel for your brand because big companies
literally spend tens of thousands of dollars trying to get the website name that
they want to get for whatever company and like I think it's probably a well
known story about the apple.com somebody owned apple.com and whoever
that was made a lot of money right ? yeah So people do want their names
so it's you as a beginning YouTube channel you definitely want to consider that
because if you have any ambitions of growing big of growing our channel to a level
where like maybe you could be making a living from it you do wanna consider all the
different platforms now I will say too that you know you don't have to have the exact
name for every platform I'd say like 50 percent of the people I know that actually do
YouTube for a living full time online career have every single name in the exact name so
its not as important but like when it comes to coming up with your YouTube
channel name is there are things to consider for sure And you know the thing is
video influencers is brand new it started really in 2014 but it's 2015 so its like
man everything is taken you know so we got video influencers online we actually
didn't get dot com we went with videoinfluencers.net there are not enough characters on
Twitter so we went with videoinfluencer but we did have the YouTube channel which is the
base i mean that's our home base for videos and content and so there's kind of a
mix there we've got Instagram video influencers and so we looked around and then
eventually so that's kinda of a good tip eventually you just kinda go for it like if you
can get all the same names that's ok but start from your brain storming session and
that's a good way to go and then the next couple of tips I have is maybe to have
a brain storming session with the saurus maybe you want to call it electric cooking
you know just to give it an adjective with what the channel is going to be so maybe
you want to call it that and then if you use the saurus you can maybe change
the electric to exciting exciting cooking or tasty cooking shocking
and just change and so combos are key with names so if you are trying to think
like a makeup channel or a business channel you can call it like rockin' real estate
or then you can switch out rockin' real estate is going to help people know what the
focus is what the channel is going to be about real estate if you start adding combos
with the saurus you can come up with a lot of descriptors to help that channel out
now correct me if im wrong but one of the things I would definitely suggest is don't
get
too caught up in your name right like it's probably better to just start creating
content because you can always kinda find your niche find your name as you go
but also YouTube don't they actually allow you to change your name like
because there's a lot of people that have there like high school name as their YouTube
channel they gain a following but they kinda wanna change their branding
their image so they've been able to change what the public sees their channel
as isn't that true ? that you can do that? It is true yeah and so in the right side
of your channel you can change your name and the cool thing is that you can
start your YouTube channel and publishing videos before you set in a solid
URL and you can even change that solid URL I've seen it happen before
but one thing that I would suggest is that because I've done this with a
few brands and I started a brand a couple years ago called think international
and what I eventually learned about though is like that doesn't mean anything
to anybody if where as if you did call it rockin' real estate what's that
channel about ? real estate real estate is really obvious so I think that
people get afraid of being specific because they wanna be so free and broad
but that can be like really helpful for people if they jump in so you so you
get to call it I mean some people might wanna do lifestyle channels some
might do like make up beauty hair all that stuff but if people want they are
going to subscribe more if they know specifically what you are doing
like if you if Austin starts a channel on after effects and it's after effects with
Austin that's kinda cool name he can have a tutorial channel and that's exactly
what it is and people want to learn about after effects it's so specific you could
really build an audience around that and then the last couple creative tools and
we'll put a bunch of tools in the description links things like that in the YouTube
description but there's a couple places one is call bustaname one is called namematch
and there's a whole list of them and they're really cool what you can do is
you can enter two different terms and it does a couple things it tells you
what they are available on but then it also starts mixing it up and giving you
other combos and other adjectives and there's a whole different sites like that
so you are gonna wanna check out if you are looking to brand your thing
rebrand your thing launch something new check out the YouTube description
for some extra stuff I never knew about those places I would definitely go there
at the end of the day my suggestion is your content is going to build your brand
your content is gonna make the name popular apple dot com who would of think
computers with apple but obviously they've build such great computers that the
apple name is synonymous for computers great computers by the way he's a
pc guy I'm an apple guy that's actually good yeah but that's something you need to remember
when coming up with your name because at the end of the day is what
you put out on your video that's gonna make the name ok don't worry too much
about it and on the side just pick something right and start making videos
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