Under the channel option in your creator or studio we have a few more options to go through upload defaults.
This makes uploading videos a lot more efficient.
So you'll want to set your default such as the category that your video is.
So for example for my channel I'd probably put my channel category under education for license.
Typically you'll want to put standard YouTube license unless all the videos that you're putting on YouTube
you're allowing other people to use and that would be under Creative Commons Commons for Title I usually
leave this default blank unless you are just doing a series of videos.
And for example at the end of every video you say Episode 1 or whatever.
And so maybe you would have this so that at the end of every title it's already when you click upload
and you start uploading a video this is already the title so you can quickly just change it to two three
etc..
I do highly suggest changing your description for every video especially those first few lines to make
sure that it's attention grabbing for people searching for your videos.
But at the bottom of your description you might want to include things like links to your Web site caused
action more information perhaps information just about your channel to include a few more keywords in
there.
So definitely add that to your description.
Same with tags for example with this channel.
Every time I upload a video I'll probably want to include the tag Phills finances so add that tag with
a comma perhaps I want to put my own name in there as well.
Perhaps personal finance.
So these are tags that will appear on every video and rather than having to type them out every time
I might put these three is important to make your tag specific to the video so don't include every single
tag.
For example I want to include things like early retirement minimalism because some of my videos might
not be about those.
And yes I could quickly delete those when I'm uploading the video but it might be easier for me just
to add specific keywords depending on what the video is about.
I would definitely include the video language for whatever you're speaking so that it's automated for
captions certification.
Typically you want to just choose this content has never aired on television in the U.S. unless something
is different.
Video location this is something that I actually don't include But if you want to put a video location
say you're in one area you can make this and then people are able to see where your video is and you
could also make the stats of your video publicly visible or not.
So just go through those make sure you set those two whatever you want and of course click save when
you go to your featured content page.
This gives you two options.
One is your channel ads so if you don't add the channel trailer from the home page of your channel like
we learned before this is another way to do it.
Just click that but in two years your video.
And then for featured content This is video that will appear at the end of all of your videos and you
might see this when you're watching YouTube video you might see a little video pop up.
You can choose the most recent upload or you can choose a specific video or playlists.
So if there's one video that is super popular or perhaps a promotional video for one of your products
or services you might want to choose that video because then that will pop up on all of your videos.
I have always chosen the most recent upload to just give people the most recent content that I've created
because if they search for whatever keyword they're searching for they find one of my older videos.
I like having my recent videos pop up so that they know I'm creating more content so I usually choose
recent upload but that's up to you when you choose your featured video you can choose when you want
it to display so you can choose a custom start time or at the end of video.
I typically do it at the end of the video and then I just choose optimize timing.
YouTube takes care of it.
Next and last for this video we have branding.
This is a watermark that shows in the bottom corner of your video click add watermark to select your
image.
It's best to choose an image with a transparent background so it appears nice and clean.
One quick tip to get more subscribers is to choose a little subscribe image.
So I found one on Google just in Google search.
It's from three icons.
So I've downloaded that one and I just search for subscribe button.
So I'm going to choose that under my graphics upload that
and click Save Now this little subscribe now button will pop up in the bottom corner of all my videos.
And when people click on this watermark whether it's a Subscribe now button or an image of your face
or your logo it will take them to your channel page and that's where people can actually subscribe when
you click save.
You can see what it looks like.
So that's kind of cool.
And again you can customize when this pops open.
I like having it start at a custom time around five seconds or maybe even a little later because it
pops up and that is a little bit more eye catching than if you have it just for the entire video.
People might not notice it as much as if it does pop up.
So that's just a quick little tip.
Once you do have a lot of subscribers it might be better to put your logo on there just to get people
aware of your branding.
Again using simple logos branding colors that we talked about earlier in this course.
Thanks for watching this video.
Now we have basically our channel set up.
So in the next video we're going to be learning about uploading content and the best practices for doing
so.