How To Create A YouTube Channel - 2024 Beginner’s Guide

let me show you how to create a YouTube channel here from scratch and I want to show you how to do it the right way because there's some settings that are kind of hidden a lot of people miss it it's a little bit difficult to change them later and I want to make sure you set up your channel the right way right from the beginning to help you be more successful long term on YouTube and this is going to be an easy seven-step process and I've used the same technique to grow and monetize six YouTube channels this one for example has over 200 million views so I have two resources two free resources at the end that I'll share with you to help you also grow a successful YouTube channel once you set it up okay the first thing I want you to do is I want you to go to youtube.com and I want you to sign out of your account so just go ahead and open a new tab here go to YouTube and sign out I want you to start here on the signing page so if you press your profile sign out and then click sign in so this is where we're going to get started here so as you see this took you to accounts.google.com Google owns YouTube so everything is going to be under the same Google account which you most likely already have one but I want to show you if you don't have one or if you want to just create a brand new one for your YouTube channel you could go ahead and press create an account here and this is going to give you three options you could set this up for personal use you could set this up for your child or for work or business this is typically what I choose because I like to turn these YouTube channels into a business or use it for my existing business if you already have a YouTube and Google account again the same type of account like a Gmail type in that email or phone number here and since I already have an account I'm not going to create one and type in your password on the second page now once you log in it's going to bring you to this page again on youtube.com but now if you click this option you're going to see something different it's going to actually right on top say create a channel so that's typically where we want to start now if you don't see this option there is a good chance that you already have created a channel so if this doesn't say create a channel you'll have a channel already which you could access from this option YouTube Studio in this case I'm going to press create a channel cuz I don't have a channel on this Google or YouTube account and here you'll have to name your channel so your channel name will go over here which you could always change every 14 days and they also have this handle here that you could also include the name other people could have your name but the handle has to be unique so I'm going to name my channel skill leap and the handle is going to be skill leap and as long as you get the check mark it's available and you could go ahead and create a channel from here now that's going to bring you right inside of your channel so naming your channel was the step two in the process which I'll show you how to change later on if you want to change it let's get to step number three which is verifying your YouTube channel this is going to unlock a lot of different options so what you need to do is Click customize channel right here and that's going to bring you to this brand new place called YouTube studio so as a owner of a YouTube channel you have access to YouTube Studio which is all the different settings you're going to have inside of your YouTube channel now before I show you any of these options which we'll cover in detail in this video let's go to the settings tab on the left side okay here we want to go to this option Channel and then over here go to this last tab here and you're going to get three different options so let me show you what these are right here standard this is what you get with a free account so as long as you just set up your YouTube channel from scratch you're going to be able to upload videos create playlist and things like that what you can't do are these two other options now this intermediate one basically you need to verify with a phone number your YouTube channel this will allow you to upload longer videos but most importantly it lets you do custom thumbnails so when you go to youtube.com pretty much everyone that has a YouTube channel that they're taking seriously they make their thumbnails they're not just chosen randomly from the video so this allows you to do that so I highly recommend the Second Step verify your Channel with the phone number or you won't be able to do these three things now later on I also recommend you do this Advanced option right now for starting a new channel you don't have to do that but this gives you a bunch of other options that you may need down the road like applying for monetization to get paid from creating YouTube videos for example now while we're here I'll also show you this advanced settings here there is a setting here that you need to turn on which is audience and it's going to ask you if you make videos for kids so if you're making a kids channel you want to say yes I do make videos for kids or if you never make videos for kids which I never make videos for kids specifically you could turn this on and if you want to review this setting you do have to turn on the third option in this case this is fine and that's really all I want to turn on in this setting as well and if I go under basic info you do want to choose your country here so I'll choose the US add Channel keyword so when people look up different things on YouTube this is not specific to a video but to a whole channel here so this channel maybe I want to make a video is about AI so I could type typ in keywords like that so then this is another way to get found inside of search and that's really all I need to worry about inside of the settings to get me started and I'll press save okay let's get to step number four we need to go to the customization Tab and let's go ahead and customize our Channel which we could do right here there's three tabs layout branding and basic info let's get started with layout so right on top there is something called Channel trailer so you could create a quick video and upload it here and tell people what your channel is about so when they land on your channel this gives them a reason to want to subscribe so it needs to be a nice call to action tell them what your channel is all about this one you'll have to come back to because we don't have any videos just yet but when you do you could add a video that will show up on your page this for you section is relatively new I recommend you turn it on here so this is going to show fresh content based on the viewers interest on top of your channel really cool new Option here and right over here I want you to change a couple of things inside of this featured section so I'm going to show you what that looks like on my channel so when people land on my channel the for you section that's the one I showed you to turn on it shows up like this underneath that you'll see couple different things these are my recent uploads then you have ai tutorials these are called playlists and then YouTube tutorials iPhone tutorials and Tik Tok tutorials and those are the type of content I make on this channel and you can see there's popular and shorts so these sections and including some of my other channels I created these sections on that page so if I go over here I could add a section and right now you don't really have to worry about it because you don't have any videos uploaded yet but you do want to come back but right now I recommend popular videos so any videos that has the most views add a section and move it right to the top then you also have YouTube shorts those are the short vertical videos right now under a minute long so that one is useful to have if you plan on making it if you don't you could always remove this section too and add the sections once you have playlist I have the playlist about specific topics and I could also feature other channels if I create a second Channel I'm going to publish that here right on top make sure you press publish because if you don't it won't remember any of the settings you just changed all right let's get to step five so I'll go to The Branding tab this is a really important page here for people to actually know what your channel is about And subscribe so typically when people see a video anywhere on YouTube they'll see a profile picture they'll see a banner image and they'll see a watermark so I'll show you what that looks like so your profile picture is this obviously this one is just something I made with an AI tool your top Banner this is for a channel called skill leap AI where I only cover AI videos for example so that's what the banner image looks like on top so for these three I'll show you some resources here to make it really easy so for your picture here there's this platform called playet and I'll put a link in the description to this platform all you have to do is typing your name or a company name here in this case that was skill leap and then here you could choose a different category again based on your business or if you just want to be a YouTuber they have a YouTuber category too in this case I'm doing technology and it basically creates these templates for you very quickly so all you have to do is press this edit option here and then you could fully customize it so anything from the text if you double click the text you can move the text around you could go ahead and change the logo for example all these are available here and when you're happy you could download it and just pay for this one option or you could get the subscription plan they have ton of different options available here but this is a very easy way to create a professional logo or you could use a picture of yourself which is what I did on the channel I just showed you now once you create that press upload find that image here make sure it's not getting cropped out here and press done and just like that it's going to go ahead and add it remember every time you make changes make sure you press publish here so it saves it okay let's get to Banner image again this is all part of the The Branding stage here these three options but again do this right now so you don't have to worry about it later so for that I recommend canva.com just type in YouTube channel Banner here again all these resources I will link in the description to make it really easy to find and here all you need to do is find a template look at that 129,000 templates for a YouTube banner and some of these require a paid upgrade you'll see a little Crown option here but some of these that don't have that are free to use so here this one's free to you so I'll click on this one and you could go ahead and customize this template and put in your own things here so your profile picture would go over here you could go ahead and change your channel name and in this case let me just download this one I won't go through the customization I have different videos about using Cana and customization I'll just press share here download and I'll just upload that here and this is viewable on TV it's going to be good for mobile devices and it's going to be good for desktop too and then you could go ahead and press done and let me press publish here you could always press view channnel here to see what it's looking like there you go obviously I need to customize this but your profile picture your channel name and your channel Banner are all over here and the last thing is this video Watermark so if you look at the corner of this video that you're watching there's a little Watermark that says subscribe so again you could get that from a place like canva and you could upload that this one will help you just easily get subscriber so if you want to subscribe to my channel for example if you hover over this icon you could just click subscribe from there it's a really easy option to add over here okay let's get to step six which is this basic info tab so we've gone through layout branding basic info okay under basic info your channel name is right here this is again where I told you you could change it twice every 14 days they do change this policy sometimes the channel handle again this has to be unique to you other people could have the same channel name but they can't have the same exact handle and then your description so tell your viewers what your channel is about and keep it pretty brief here but you have up to a th000 characters here to describe what that is channel URL you want to share this with friends family whoever copy this link share it that way another way to share it is right over here you could copy this handle youtube.com/ symbol whatever this is and this is another way that just looks a lot cleaner than this option over here then you have links so share external links with your viewers press add so you can add your website URL here if you have a business that is one way to do that so all you have to do is type in your url like skill leap. here you could add another link here and you could keep adding multiple links here again you could send people to your social media platforms and things like that I usually just keep this down to three different links here to make it really easy for people to know what I want them to do but you could go ahead and add those links contact info later when you grow a channel you might want to do different things like a sponsorships or or work with different brands you would put your email address here for them to contact you this is visible to all viewers so make sure you don't put in your YouTube login that is a security issue so you want to put in a different email here than the one we created for our YouTube channel very important here just make sure you don't share your login information with people because again this is viewable to anybody and for step seven let me show you some of these other settings you have so if you go to the earn tab on the left side this is going to show you all kinds of different things including a way to monetize your YouTube channel so a lot of people get paid including myself for uploading videos to YouTube this is how you join so they do change this from time to time right now you need to have a thousand subscribers so again I'll share some resources with you on exactly how to do this effectively and you need to reach 4,000 hours of watch time so people need to watch 4,000 hours worth of your videos and if you go to the YouTube shorts route you could also get get to 10 million views on YouTube shorts in only 90 days this is pretty difficult I usually do these first two and then it will email you when you're subscribed they have other ways to monetize your channel here as well so you could do memberships you could do little stickers so you can learn more about that here now that your channel is pretty much set up you just have to press upload a video and then drop your video right over here after it's created and then go through the uploading process and I have different videos show you how to upload videos as well and after you upload your first one you always come over here to create and upload a video which brings you back to the same exact page now let me show you two free resources here to help you grow this channel figure out what kind of videos are going to work best for you so the first one is up here you see this little icon I have this is called Tu buddy and let me show you what it does exactly so the best way to use it is this thing called keyword Explorer where this is a really easy way to figure out what videos you should make specifically for your channel so here I could just type in something that I come up with at the top of my head like how to grow a YouTube channel maybe I want to make a video about that and it gives me a bunch of different suggestions but if I press explore it's really interesting what this does here it's going to tell you if you have a chance actually for ranking in search so people could discover that video now in my case I make these type of content over a long time right so it show me an excellent chance but sometimes it will show you a poor chance here and you'll see other options here that you could just click on to get a better idea and you'll see if you have a better chance or Worse chance here for showing up in search this is for search there's other ways to get discovered on YouTube I love search this is how I've grown this channel to almost a million subscribers so that's typically what I suggest and you could see video topics over here to give you a bunch of ideas so in just a minute you could probably come up with 20 different video titles and based on your overall score in the beginning you don't have to worry too much about it just start making videos but over time this is an extremely helpful way to explore this is just called keyword Explorer and Tu budy is just this little Chrome extension that you could use for free I have the paid version it gives me a ton more here to explore but again one resource that I recommend and the second free resource is an hour training that I put together to help people that set up a YouTube channel to actually grow and monetize that YouTube channel or even use it for their business which is typically what I like to do I've done both and this training has very practical step-by-step applications to actually grow this YouTube channel now from scratch get to 1,000 subscribers and Beyond and generate leads and things like that for your business if you have an existing business and I really wanted to make this a One-Stop shop so in the description you'll find all the steps all the links that I mentioned all the resources all in one place I hope you found this useful good luck with YouTube and I will see you on 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Length: 15min 48sec (948 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 02 2024