How to make a youtube channel in this tutorial we're going to show you exactly step by step how you can create your own
YouTube channel to get started head up to the top right of your screen and click sign in if
You already have a gmail account
Then you can sign in to your gmail account and fast forward in this video to 1 minute 17 seconds
And you can continue on with the tutorial if you don't have a gmail account yet
Then we're gonna scroll down and click on create account for your new account
you're gonna have to put in your first name last name and
Then you can choose the email address that you're going to use. So this is going to be a new
gmail address
And a secure password and then confirm your secure password and click next enter your phone number
You will need to put the correct phone number in order to verify your account
Google will send you an SMS with this code and enter the code they seem to add your birth date and your gender
now you can choose if you want to participate in this we're gonna click skip and then scroll down and accept the privacy terms and
Click the blue, I agree
To check that you have created a YouTube channel and you are signed in correctly
I've created a video for you to check this on there's a link down in the description
I want you to click on this link go to the video and try and add a comment to this video if
You are signed in it'll let you comment and the comment will be approved
If you aren't signed, then this screen will pop up and then you can create your YouTube account
Using your gmail to sign in now let you have your YouTube account
Created if you would like to create a brand account or business account
Scroll down to YouTube studio. It's the one with the gear icon with a play in the middle
this will take you through to your YouTube page and it'll ask you do you want to use YouTube as an
Individual or do you want to create a brand or business channel?
We're going to select use as a business
and
Click on that link and it's going to take you through to create a new channel
Brand account and we're gonna input our business name or a brand name
Here and then we're gonna click create channel
you'll now arrive at your YouTube channel page and we're going to click on the edit channel icon and
Click Edit. This is going to take you to your google about me page
we're going to upload a
profile photo if you are doing a brand account and you want to use a logo as the profile you
Welcome to do this. We're going to adjust the crop and then click done
That's going to upload our profile photo and then click on the nine boxes, and it's head back to YouTube
This may take a few minutes for your profile picture to show up on your YouTube channel
If it does take a while get over to the top right and click on my channel
So I'll take you to your my channel page and click on customize channel. Then you can see how to add channel art
And your profile if you click on this pen
And it says, you know channel icon click on brand account
And then you can upload your photo here on your brand account
and if you click on the top right
You can see there's my personal account and there is the brand account
So it has uploaded that image then when we head back to YouTube and refresh
Your profile picture should pull through here and pull through on the top right
and we're going to add some channel art. Hopefully by now your
Profile picture has pulled through from being uploaded
So click on this add channel art
Now it's really important to understand the dimensions they haven't come in to your channel art
If you unsure of how to check these dimensions click on this how to create channel art
It will take you through to the Google support page
And what it does is it gives you a guideline that you can
Download so you can click on this download channel or template and it'll give you this as an overlay
Which is really helpful to have once you've downloaded the channel art template
Let's head back to our YouTube channel, and we're going to now create an image
For your channel art
Get in to canva.com if you haven't signed up for account with canva
We will link to a video that will show you how to do it's really simple and easy
Once you're on canva calm head to the top here and search for YouTube
Channel art. There's 2560 px by
1440 px
we're gonna select that I
Mean what you can do is search through some of the templates and see which of these designs
find the one you like the most
We're going to go to the Travel YouTube
Find and select a template that you like
The look of for your YouTube channel, we're going to select this with the yellow text
That stands out quite nicely then you can click on the text and edit it to
Customize it for your website. We're going to change our to youtube the leaders and
Resize the text so that it fits on one line. We're gonna make it a bit smaller
48 should be good and then we're going to edit the text at the bottom. I
remember when we are putting text on our
YouTube art. We always want to have a call to action so our call to action is going to be
subscribed to our channel
that helps your viewers take action when they arrive on your website, and then you can resize
the text and
The colors to fit your text
We're going to remove this top text. We don't really need that for our
Design, and then we're going to upload the overlay so we can see
What fits inside?
the resizable
youtube channel art
now this is really important because your computer and
Cell phone screens
YouTube
resizes your image
So the overlay helps us see exactly what they're going to include on a computer screen or cell phone
When someone is having a look at your YouTube channel
So we're going to change the opacity here so we can see on our image. What?
Actually is going to be shown in the final results of our YouTube channel art. So we're going to send the overlay backwards and
Backwards again and one more time
So all three layers of text on the front and we're gonna drag and move these to fit
within the outline
That YouTube has given us
So you can drag in and just depending on the size of the text
That you have put in to make it fit so that it's going to show on a desktop screen and on a cell phone screen
Once you are happy with that, you can remove that overlay
This is going to delete the original image, but we're gonna add a different image
so hidden elements and photos and I want you to search for an image that fits the theme of
Your YouTube channel and you can scroll through here. Most of the images are free. There are some that are going to cost you $1
but I'm sure you'll find a
Free image that'll work. Just fine and
Then we resize it to fit and send it backwards so that our text comes out on the front
Once you happy with your design head to the top right and click that download button and save
The image to your computer and then you can head back to YouTube and upload the saved image
Once you've finished uploading your image to YouTube just have a look at what it looks like on the desktop
TV and mobile if we follow the guidelines of the overlay that we had downloaded
These should be perfect. If you need to you can adjust the crop
Otherwise, you can select the channel art and let's have a look at what it looks like on our YouTube homepage
Perfect. So that text fits in quite nicely and ask good
Call-to-action because what we want any visitor coming to our YouTube page is to head down to our red
subscribe button to subscribe
to our YouTube channel
that's the result that we want to head down and
Click on that subscribe button so we can get more followers and we can deliver more value to more people
Next we're going to add a channel description. So head to the About tab
And we're going to click on this button add channel description
I've put together a short description and what you want to do when you are
Creating your description is make sure the keywords and related keywords of
the theme or niche that you want to focus on are included in your description, so that
People searching for those kind of keywords find your channel now
This is a very brief description that we've put together just as an example for you
make sure that yours is a bit more detailed and
flows a bit more so that people can enjoy reading your description and
It mustn´t ask them to watch more of your YouTube videos and subscribe to your YouTube channel
Add in an email address
this is handy if anyone ever needs to contact you if you have services that you provide or if any
Advertisers or sponsors want to contact you to work with you on YouTube
it's handy to have a contact email where you can add your location and we are in sunny South Africa and
We're going to add in a link to our website
We're gonna add our website DM with call so you can put the title or the link name that you want
And then the URL is DM with call com always handy to have a link back to your website
You can also add links to all of social media accounts below here
It allows you to add five different links or choose which ones you would like to link to and add those in
The last thing that we're going to do is we're going to add tags to your channel
What these are really is keywords that people can search for that are linked to your channel
So you hit up to the top right and click on creator studio?
then let's head down and click on settings and we're gonna head to other settings and
advanced channel settings
once you arrive in the Advanced tab
You will see under your country you have channel keywords that you can add. So we're gonna add in tags or keywords
that are suited to our theme or
Niche for our YouTube channel
Now these keywords will be keywords that you want to be discovered for
So if people are searching for these keywords
Then your channel will come up as a channel that talks about these kind of subjects
So think about your two or three main focus keywords and then add in three or four other
keywords that are related to your topic
So we can add on YouTube YouTube leaders video creator and video creators
Head down to the bottom and click Save
once you're finished saving you have finished updating and customizing your
YouTube channel now you are set up and ready to start uploading some videos
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