
- #HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN YOUTUBE CHANNEL ON MOBILE FULL#
- #HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN YOUTUBE CHANNEL ON MOBILE PRO#
But right now, your YouTube channel is ready for the street. You can fiddle around with other YouTube settings and customize things further at a later date, if you wish.
#HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN YOUTUBE CHANNEL ON MOBILE PRO#
PRO TIP: Use a simple image for your channel art because YouTube automatically crops your channel art image on mobile devices. To upload channel art, click on the blue “Add channel art” button. The recommended dimensions for channel art are 2560 x 1440 px.Ī great resource for creating high-quality YouTube channel art can be found at. For branding purposes, try and use an image that represents the image of your company and lets viewers know they’re in the right place. Your YouTube channel will function just fine without channel art, but it’s nice to upload a picture to liven things up a bit, instead of just using the plain, boring default image. It’s similar to the cover photo (aka “banner image”) you see at the top of Facebook and Twitter pages. This is the big rectangle area at the top of your YouTube channel. To complicate matters further, YouTube does a circle crop of your channel icon on mobile devices, meaning the corners get cut off. And remember, the channel icon gets even smaller on mobile a device. PRO TIP: Use an image for your channel icon that looks good when it’s shrunk down really small, since this is what will appear on a YouTube watch page (just below the video, to the left, next to your YouTube channel name). To upload a channel icon image, hover over the brown channel icon placeholder and click the little pencil icon that appears. The recommended dimensions for the image you use for your channel icon are 800 x 800 px. Or if you are the face of your company, then put your headshot there.

The channel icon is typically where your company logo goes.
#HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN YOUTUBE CHANNEL ON MOBILE FULL#
For now, I’m keeping it simple with just “Mark Brinker” rather than the full name of my business, “Mark Brinker & Associates”. Don’t worry, you can change the name of your YouTube channel later if you want. Enter the name of your business/brand, then click “Create”. Click on your profile/avatar in the upper right, then select “My Channel” from the drop-down, as shown below:

For demonstration purposes today, I’ve created the Google account If you already have a dedicated Google account for your business, no need to create another.


Create a separate Google account just for your business. Do not use your personal Google/Gmail account.Create a Google account (because Google owns YouTube). Setting up a YouTube Channel for your business is fairly simple and quick … and it’s free.ġ.
