Earn money from youtube

How to Open a YouTube Channel

If you wondered why you need to open a YouTube channel, here are some interesting statistics on YouTube. Based on expandedramblings.com, there are 1 billion users surfing the YouTube Channel with 4 billion video are viewed daily with an average of 40 minutes spent. Apart from Facebook, YouTube can be considered the second largest active daily users. So, if you want to get some traffic or promotion to your brand or product or even to yourself, this platform is the place to go. Here we give you the step by step on how to open a YouTube channel.

Step 1 source-mymediasocial
If you already have a Gmail or Google account, it is likely that you already have a YouTube account. Go to YouTube at look at the top left of the screen. Tap on that icon and you will see your channel list. If you are new you can create a new brand account under your Google profile. This brand account can also be used in other Google products such as Google+, Google My Business and Google Photos.



Step 2
In your Google account setting in Youtube, tap the “Create a new channel”

Step 3
You can name your brand account here. Choose a brand account name that resonates with the target audience you want to capture. Avoid using established brand name and keep your brand name simple and catchy. The successful promotion of your channel depends also on how people remember your channel and how it is different from any other channel out there in YouTube.

Step 4
After you created the channel, you can already upload your video. However, it is important for you to create the banner or the channel art of your channel. There are many free service providers that you can get your free banner image. One of it is canva.com or flickr.com. At canva.com, they already a template that is ready to be used as your YouTube channel art. It is important for you to have the channel art as this will show your channel are real and this can have plus factor for the organic ranking from Youtube.

Step 5
Create and upload your video. You can create a video with many methods nowadays. Here are some methods for you to create a video for Youtube.

1. Record using a video camera
2. Record using your smartphone
3. Create animation video. You can go to sites such as goanimate.com, biteable.com to create animation
4. Record screen cast from your computer. You can use site such as screencastomatic.com
5. Create video narration from your powerpoint slide



Step 6
However, if you are expecting to get tons of traffic as soon as you upload your video, you are up to a dissappointment. Therefore it is important you do some optimizing to the details of your video. Remember millions of videos are uploaded to Youtube every single day. The good news is that not many people optimize their video SEO. So, if you do some optimizing, the higher the chance you can get organic traffic to your video.
Here are some SEO optimising tips for your video.

1. Take time to Create Your Video MetaData – Title, Description, Tags
2. Create Good Thumbnail Image
3. Use the Closed Captioning
4. Increase your watch time
5. Use the Annotations

Set up your channel to earn moneymm(youtube guidelines) 

Step 1: Read and agree to the YouTube Partner Program terms

1. Sign in to YouTube.
2. In the top right, select your account icon >Creator Studio. 
3. In the left menu, select Channel > Status and features.
4. Under "Monetization," click Enable.
5. Follow the on-screen steps to accept the YouTube Partner Program Terms.

Step 2: Sign up for AdSense

Create a new AdSense account or connect an existing one to your channel. You need an AdSense account to earn money from your videos and get paid. Follow these steps to set up an AdSense account.

In order to receive payments, you need to log into your AdSense account and ensure you have resolved any payment holds. Once any holds are resolved, you'll be paid when your earnings reach your local payment threshold (as long as monetization is not suspended for your channel and you're in compliance with our policies).

Step 3: Set monetization preferences

Set what types of ads you want to run on your videos and automatically turn on monetization for all your existing and future videos.

When you set this up, you will start earning money as soon as your channel is approved.

1. Confirm you want to monetize for all your existing and future videos.
2. Check the boxes under Ads formats to choose the types of ads you want to show. 
3. Click Save.

You can always change these setting in your monetization default so that every upload is automatically monetized or not monetized, or choose the specific videos you want to monetize.

Step 4: Get reviewed

Once your channel meets the program threshold, we'll review your application to make sure your channel activity adheres to the YouTube Partner Program policies, YouTube Terms of Service, and our Community Guidelines. We'll let you know as soon as the process is complete.

If you don't have enough views for a review yet, keep making original content and growing your audience.

This view count threshold gives us enough information to determine the validity of a channel. It also allows us to confirm if a channel is following our community guidelines and advertiser policies.