Channel: How to grow your youtube channel
To grow your Youtube channel, you should build a very strong brand on youtube. Your brand represents your channel’s style in a logical and consistent fashion. Branding makes it easier for viewers to find your videos and channel when they search for it. Make sure your channel and videos align with your branding to build a strong presence. Here’s how.
1. Complete your profile, make sure all information is filled in: Probably stating the obvious here but the very first thing you should do, if you haven’t already, is make sure you have completed your profile. Done? Great, let’s move on!
2. Add social media profiles: Youtube allows you to link your social media accounts to your youtube channel which will be displayed on the top right of your channel above the subscribe button. Make sure you have all your social media accounts entered your youtube channel so new or existing subscribers can quickly follow your on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat or anything else. If you have a website or blog you can also link that here.
Social Media on your Youtube channel
3. Fill out your ‘about’ channel description, set your country and enter a contact email address: Your channel has an ‘About’ tab where you can tell something about you, your channel or your videos (What are they about? How often do you upload new videos?). This let’s viewers know who you are and what your channel is about so they don’t have to figure it out themselves and they can quickly decide if they want to subscribe to your Youtube channel. Your channel description will be shown when someone hovers over your channel thumbnail in the youtube comments. We will explain why this is important later in this post.
4. Create a Channel Thumbnail: Your channel thumbnail visually represents your channel on Youtube. In comments or if you are a featured channel on someone else’s channel (more on that later). So you have to make sure it looks good small and large. You can have your logo if it’s a business channel and a photo of yourself it it’s your personal youtube channel.
5. Create a Channel Banner: Your channel banner is the banner across the top of your channel. Your channel banner provides a great opportunity to show off your channel’s personality and make your brand stronger. Your channel banner is an image that is at least 2560×1440 px.
