The opportunity to reach your audience on YouTube is massive. It’s the most popular social platform among U.S. adults, and nearly 75% of Americans use the social video site of all online traffic, or that over five billion YouTube videos are watched every single day.

YouTube, the Google-owned video network, have over a billion users, almost one-third of all people on the Internet spend hundreds of millions of hours on YouTube every days. On mobile alone, YouTube reaches more than any cable network in the U.S.

In reality, though, video is becoming much easier and cheaper to create. This means there’s a huge opportunity for your business on YouTube.

It is fortunate that, creating a YouTube Channel isn’t difficult. However creating a successful YouTube channel is need a little more work, but don’t worry, If you’ve been debating getting started on YouTube this post is for you, we’ve covered everything you need to create a successful YouTube channel.

Creating a personal YouTube channel using your Google account

If you already have a Google account, you can watch videos on YouTube. However, you must create a YouTube channel to start earning on YouTube to uploading your videos. Getting a new channel set up is a simple and quick process.

1. Sign into a Google account

Before you can get started on YouTube, you’re going to need a Google account, If you don’t have a Google account then you need to create a Google account first.

2. Go to YouTube and sign in

• Go to YouTube and click ‘sign in’ in the top right corner of the page on a computer or the YouTube App

• Then log in to the Google Account you’d like to create your YouTube channel with

3.Go to your YouTube settings

• In the top right corner of the screen, click on your profile icon

4. Create your channel

• Under your profile icon, you’ll see the option to “Create a channel,”

• Now, choose a name for your channel that best describe your business or brand and confirm to create your channel.

Congratulations! You’ve successfully created a new YouTube channel

5. Customize your channel

Next, let’s customize your channel for your audience to explore and get your channel looking awesome.

• Uploading a profile picture
• Uploading a banner image

• adding a video watermark.
• Adding a description of your channel
• Adding links to your sites, this can include custom links to a website or blog as well as social links to Facebook, Instagram or Twitter

How to create a YouTube channel if you don’t already have a Google account

If you don’t already have a Google account, then you’ll need to create a Google account first before you get started on YouTube. To do this, simply follow the instructions below:

• Go to YouTube.com
• Click ‘Sign In’

• Now, choose the option to create a Google account
• Follow the steps to create your Google account

Now, you’re all set up with a Google account and can follow the above steps to create a YouTube channel.

The perfect sizes for YouTube Profile Picture

Your profile picture must:

• JPG, GIF, BMP, or PNG file
• 800 X 800 px image (recommended)
• Square or round image that renders at 98 X 98 px

The perfect sizes for YouTube channel art

Your banner image must:

For the best results, YouTube recommends uploading a single 2560 x 1440 pixel image.

• Minimum dimension for upload: 2048 x 1152 px with an aspect ratio of 16:9.
• At the minimum dimension, 1235 x 338 px. Larger images may get cropped on certain views or devices.
• File size: 6 MB or smaller.

The perfect sizes for YouTube Video watermark

Your video watermark must:

• Minimum 150×150 pixels.
• Square image less than 1 MB in size.

6. Upload your first YouTube video

Well, exciting You have successfully created a YouTube channel and completed recommended settings. To upload your first video to YouTube, click the “Create” button in the top-right corner and “Upload videos” then follow the prompts.

To get Views and subscribers, you’ll need to optimize your channel and videos for discovery. Once you start adding videos, Optimizing your video for search, which helps users discover your video.

Optimize video titles

Titles are the first thing viewer see, and also help the search engine understand what your videos are about. So make sure all your titles are concise, descriptive and include keywords.

Optimize video description

Video description must be clear, concise and descriptive. Make sure to add links in video descriptions and Create a Table of Contents to help viewers find what they’re looking for.

Video description should be limited to 1,000 characters. YouTube only displays the first two or three lines of text, minimum 100 characters, so front-load the description with the most important information.

Add tags

Tags help YouTube’s algorithm understand what your content is about. Make sure to add a category to help the search engine put your videos in front of the right audience. You need to include tags that are relevant to your content. You must focus is to reach viewers who are interested in your content.

Understand user interest

Once you have uploaded some videos on your channel, see your YouTube Analytics. This will help and tell you, how and when your videos of impact your viewer or audience.