How to Create a Youtube channel Part-2

How to Create a Youtube channel Part-2

  If you've never had a YouTube channel

and you wanna make one

or you already have one

but want to make a brand new YouTube channel

then stay tuned

I'm gonna walk you through

step-by-step on how to do that.

- You gotta just press record.

- Hey guys, my name is Nolan Molt

with Think Media.

Now let's jump right into this video.

First off we are going to create

a brand new YouTube channel.

If you don't have a Google account

that is what I'm gonna walk you through.

So first of all, go to youtube.com

and in this upper right-hand corner

you are going to see a Sign In button.

We are gonna click on Sign In

and at this point

if you don't have any Google accounts

if you don't have a Gmail

you're not gonna see any of these accounts here

but what you will see is

use another account

or it might just say create an account

but for me, I'm gonna click use another account.

So you're probably gonna see

this window right away

and now what you can do here

is actually create account

by just clicking create account

and you have two options

either for myself or to manage my business.

Now you probably wanna hit for myself

because it's probably just

your own personal YouTube channel

but actually I recommend hitting manage my business

and this is going to actually give you

a few more options

that you wouldn't be able to do

if it was just a personal YouTube account.

One of these perks of having

what they call a brand account

is multiple people can sign in

rather than signing into your Google account

and accessing your Gmail and all that

they can just sign into the YouTube channel.

If it's for myself

and you wanted someone else to sign in

they would actually have to get your password

for your Gmail,

for everything Google.

So that is one major reason.

Another reason that's really cool

is you can have a different name

on your YouTube channel

than your actual Google account.

So if you do for myself

your YouTube name will be your Google account name

but not everyone wants to do that.

So I definitely recommend

going with that brand account.

Now in filling out this page,

your name right here

this is not gonna be what shows up

on your YouTube channel.

You'll be able to choose that later

so you can really choose

whatever you would like here.

Now right underneath that

we have your email address

and if you don't have a Gmail account yet

you're gonna wanna hit this button

which is Create a new Gmail instead.

Now you need to create a username

that goes before the @gmail.com

and if you do something that is already taken

when you hit password,

it's gonna show you

that this username is taken

and to try another.

So you wanna find one

that is unique and has not been used before

so I'm gonna add a number

to the end of mine

and it also gives you some suggestions.

So maybe I wanna click on this one instead

and now I know that this one is available

and it even recommended to me

so now I'm gonna choose my password.

Then we're gonna hit Next

and then we need to fill this page out for Google.

So if we need to recovery email address

this doesn't have to be a Gmail

it could be anything

and so you're gonna put in a few things here

after filling that out, you'll hit Next again

and then on Privacy and Terms

you can read this

and then scroll down at the bottom

you'll hit I agree

and right here, it says your Google account

is all set.

Now you can add your business profile.

So what we wanna do actually

is hit Not Now.

We are gonna go straight to YouTube

and finish creating our YouTube account.

Now we're back on the YouTube page

and we know our channel is created

because up here we can see our icon and our name

but there's a very, very very important step

that you need to know next.

I want you to go to your channel icon

and hit Create a channel.

So we are gonna click that button

and then we're gonna see this.

It says your creator journey begins

and we're gonna say, Get started.

Now here, we're able to use our own name

or we could use a custom name,

which is what I wanna do

and now I can choose a channel name

and I can put that in here.

So I've chosen my name

I click, I understand

and I hit create

and at this point now

I've created a YouTube channel.

Now we have a brand channel.

So remember that

if you want to change your name at any point,

you still can do that

you just gotta go into your settings

and change that.

Now I have videos already talking about

how to upload a profile picture

and all that kinda stuff

so I'm going to avoid that

but go back to YouTube

and then we can see here

when we click on our icon,

we can go to your channel

and at this point you have a YouTube channel.

You can go into the comments,

you can post a video,

you're officially a YouTuber.

If you wanna create another YouTube channel,

maybe for some different content

and you already have a channel

you wanna click on your icon

and then go into your settings.

On this page we're gonna go to your channel

and we're gonna find

add or manage your channels

we'll click that

and here we're able to open up

a brand new YouTube channel.

When creating a new channel

it's automatically a brand account

and you can put in your name right there

and create it.

It's very, very simple

but that is how you do it.

Now there's one last thing

that is the most important part of this video

and you definitely wanna do this.

This next step is going to give you access

to do custom thumbnails,

you can post videos

15 minutes or longer,

you can live stream

and you can also appeal content ID claims.

Here's how you do this.

Back on youtube.com

you wanna click on that icon again

this time we're gonna go

into the YouTube studio.

In the YouTube studio,

we're gonna go to this bottom left corner

and we're gonna go into the settings.

Next, we're gonna click on Channel

and then Feature Eligibility.

We can see that the default features

have already been enabled

but for this,

we do want to enable this as well

which is what I was talking about

and all you need to do this

is to verify a phone number.

So click on that button

and then what you'll do here

is you will wanna hit text me.

I like to have them just send a text

and it happens right away.

You type in your phone number

and then you wanna hit Submit.

Right away you're gonna get a text message

and then you wanna open that up

and put in that six digit number into Google.

You'll hit, submit

and now congratulations,

your YouTube account is now verified

and you are completely set up.

The next step is definitely

to set up your profile picture

as well as your banner

and you can click on the screen right now

to watch a playlist

where I'll walk you through

step-by-step on how to do that

and even create a banner

for your YouTube channel.

Very simple, very easy and quick.

I'll see you guys in the next Blog.