Hey guys it's Olivia and I'm back with another video.
So anyone who knows me in real life and knows that I am a major perfectionist.
So before I started my YouTube Channel there were so many things that I felt the need to get right before I even uploaded my first video,
'cause I'm like there's no point in uploading my video unless I figure this stuff out first.
So in case you're thinking about starting a channel I just wanted to tell you some things that I thought about
and maybe some things that you should do before you upload your first video.
So the first thing is, after you sign up for a YouTube account, like when you go to your channel,
your channel is completely blank; you don't have a profile picture you don't have channel art, you don't have anything.
So kind of under this category of like, kind of setting up your channel;
the first thing that you should do is choose your profile picture.
So I'm going to assume that you already have, um, social media platforms. So whatever picture is your Twitter avi or your Instagram profile picture
is probably a very good picture of you hence why you already used it as your profile photo, so I would recommend using that as your YouTube profile picture.
Um, if you don't have any social media platforms, and so you don't already have a profile picture that you like, I recommend just using like, the best picture you have of yourself.
Like, this is my, um, profile picture on YouTube
and this picture was actually taken 3 years ago; I am 15 in this picture, I am currently 18, but it still looks like me 'cause I haven't really like, aged much I guess.
So use a recent picture of you that still looks really good.
Like if your favourite picture of yourself is when you were 10 but now you're 18, then you probably don't look like that anymore.
So I recommend using a, up-to-date photo of you; it can be from a few years ago if that's still what you look like.
And make the picture kind of like a headshot. Like this picture was literally taken on the front-facing camera of my iPhone 4,
but I filmed it outside, the lighting was pretty good and I think that that it's a good picture.
Like honestly, the reason why I'm using a picture from 3 years ago is because I'm not photogenic,
so honestly this is the best picture that I've taken of myself in the past 3 years;
hence why I use it on basically every social media platform that I have.
Um, so yeah, make it a picture of maybe your shoulders up
because like, especially when you comment on other people's videos, your picture shows up like this big.
So then if you do a picture of your whole entire body, then like, if the picture is this big and your body fills the picture,
then your head's gonna be like that big, meaning people aren't going to be able to see your face.
Um, and you want people to see your face 'cause you want them to know who they're gonna be watching before they actually go to your channel.
'Cause if you comment other people's videos, that's how other people might find you, and if your head in that picture is this small
then people don't know who they're looking at.
Another thing with your profile picture is, have the picture be of only you.
Because if you have a picture of like, you and 6 of your friends, once again if you comment on somebody else's video,
then your picture's gonna show up really small and then you're just gonna see like, 6 tiny heads
and another thing people aren't gonna know which one is you.
So I recommend using a picture of maybe from like, the shoulders up, um, and make it a picture that still looks like you look like now.
Like the only difference between me and this picture is that my hair is different,
and if I were to change my profile picture every time I changed my hair, um, I'd change my profile picture like, every 2 months, so yeah.
The second thing pertaining to your channel setup is your banner.
So, this is what my banner looks like and, um, basically I just used like a cartoon version of myself and then I put when I would be uploading.
So as I said I made all of this stuff before I uploaded my first video,
so I didn't know what day of the week I wanted to upload to yet. So I just put, "New Videos Every Week" because I did know that I wanted to upload, um, once a week,
but I didn't know the exact day. So instead of not making on YouTube banner and then uploading a banner after I uploaded my first video I was like, this is specific enough,
people know it's once a week, and if someone actually watches my video; at the end of all my videos I say, "I make new videos every Monday,"
so I felt like that was fine.
Some things that I suggest putting on your YouTube banner is, as I said like, when you're gonna upload.
Like, if you're gonna upload once a week, you could write, "Uploading Once A Week" or you could write the specific day that you upload.
If you are uploading multiple times a week then you can say the days of the week that you will be uploading on and put that in your YouTube banner.
You can also, obviously put your channel name, um, and you could maybe put like what type of videos you're gonna make.
Like, if you're gonna make gaming videos you might put that in your banner, if you're gonna make beauty videos, lifestyle videos,
uh, maybe put that in your banner so people know what your channel is about.
I personally don't have that in my banner but it's something that I've seen in other people's banners.
Another thing that I think is a way to personalize your banner is like, I have like, a cartoon version on myself.
Um, maybe you could -- I've seen some people who put like, collages so that's their background; like the background of my YouTube banner is just blue stripes right,
so you could put a collage of yourself or you could put a picture of yourself on the corner of yours, like I did with mine.
Um, 'cause if you just took like a coloured background and text, then there's so many other people who could have very similar banners as you,
so like, add something into your banner to make it like, personalized so people know this is THIS person's banner not, this is A banner.
Another thing pertaining to the look of your channel is consistency and what I mean by that is like,
I have specific channel colours. Like, if you look at my YouTube banner, and it has the 2 different shades of blue in, um, vertical stripes,
that's the exact same background as my Intro. So you saw the Intro of this video, how it was my name, Olivia Henry, and then it erased to O. Henry.
That blue and the blue in the background of my banner are the exact same. The font is the exact same font, and the colours are the same colours.
So, um, in my Intro the Olivia is in white and the Henry is in black and then in my YouTube banner the O is white, the Henry is black.
In my End Card the, the same thing happens as in my Intro, it says, "Olivia Henry" and then it erases to, "O. Henry"
and the colours are same, black and white.
Um, if you look at my End Card, my End Card is purple. Um, it's kind of like a pink-y purplish colour,
um, which I wasn't originally gonna do but I made it by accident and I thought that it looked really good so then I just decided to use it for my End Card.
But yeah, I recommend having consistent colours. Um, so my, kind of, channel colours are blue, black and white.
Blue is my favourite colour and black and white go with everything so I thought that, that was a very good colour combination.
Another thing is font.
So if you look at the font in my banner, and you look at the font in my Intro, and you look at the font in my End Card, and you look at the font in my thumbnails,
all of them are the same.
Another thing with my thumbnails, is I use my colours. My black and white 'cause that's kind of my text colours,
and my blue is kind of my background colours.
And so, if you look at some of my thumbnails, like I'll insert a couple, I always use black and white and I alternate my colours.
So if the first word is black, then the second word is white, and the next word is black and the next word is white.
And then if you look at like the background colour that I put behind each word; it's the opposite colour.
So if it's a black word it has a white background and if it's a white word as a black background and then I always alternate between the two.
Um, so black and white are usually the colours that I use for my text, but not always,
'cause if you look at some of my other YouTube video thumbnails such as these;
then you'll see that I might have used a different colour but I am using the same font and I am using the same pattern;
um, alternating the colours for the text and alternating the colours for the background behind the text.
So even though the colour might not be consistent, the font is consistent and my pattern is consistent.
Because when you go to like, someone's channel, and then you click, "Videos," it shows all of their videos.
And one thing that you should try to do is make all your videos look good together.
So one thumbnail might look good and this thumbnail might look good, but do they look good beside each other, is, um, something to think about.
Like, the same thing if you have an Instagram, how your Instagram feed might be like that.
My Instagram feed is nothing like that I just post pictures when I feel like it and they don't correspond at all but...
Have you ever seen like, an Instagram feed that looks so nice? Like it's -- they always have the same amount of brightness,
they always have the same amount of saturation, they always have the same colours,
and like, their pictures look good individually but they also look good as a whole.
Like, when you go to their Instagram and you select the grid, how their picture just look so good together.
So that's how you should kind of want your thumbnails to look together, when someone goes to your video page and you just see all of them.
So that's kind of it for like, the look of your channel.
Um, another thing that I thought long and hard about before I, um, uploaded my first video was what my channel name was gonna be.
Um, I also had to think about that before I made my YouTube banner because I put my channel name on my banner.
So as you know, my channel name is O. Henry.
My first and last name is Olivia Henry, so it's kind of just a play off of my name.
Um, when coming with a YouTube name, I feel like you can never go wrong with your name because you -- it's a channel by you.
So even if your channel isn't about you, like let's say you're doing a gaming channel, so you're gonna be doing a lot of screen capturing,
and your face might be in the corner of the screen, but like, the main thing is the game you're playing;
I feel like having your name as your channel name isn't a bad thing because it's games by you, you know what I mean?
So there's lots of gaming channels out there, but the reason why lots of them are successful is because the game is being played by different people,
and you can see this person's strategy, and you can see the games that this person has, you can see the review this person has.
So it's a different perspective even though it might be the same game.
Um, so yeah, I feel like putting your name in your channel name kind of personalizes it.
Another thing that I've seen other people do, is they put like, the type of channel in their YouTube name.
So like, for example, if I had a gaming channel it would be Olivia Henry Gaming.
That way if you commented on somebody else's video and then somebody saw your channel name, they know before they even click on your channel, what your channel is gonna be about.
So my channel is like, basically about me and my opinions on things. Hence why my YouTube channel name is just my name,
'cause it's basically revolving around me. So if you want to make it personal by putting your name in it,
but also like, give people a kind of idea of what your channel is about, then you could do that.
Like if you are doing makeup videos you could be, "Olivia Henry Makeup" or "(Your Name) Makeup," um, you know what I mean?
So you can, but you don't have to.
One thing with a YouTube name is, making something that you won't regret in the future.
Like, if you're very young your interests change. Like, I'm very young; I'm only 18 years old.
Um, but let's say you're like 10 and you wanna start a YouTube channel, before you create your channel name,
like, let's say right now you're into unicorns and rainbows and you just love everything.
If you name your channel, "Unicorns Rainbows I Love Everything," well, when you get older, maybe that's not what you want your channel name to be.
One thing that I thought of before I created my channel name is, "Would I want people to call me that in real life?"
Because your channel name is your online persona, right?
So -- I'm not a big enough YouTuber for people to recognize me on the street, but let's say they did.
Like, let's say I'm on this side of the street and you're on that side of the street. Am I okay with someone yelling, "O. Henry!"?
I'm okay with that. I'm okay with you yelling my name across the street for everyone to hear.
So if you are gonna name your channel -- I don't remember what I said before -- "Unicorns Ponies I Love Everything,"
are you okay with someone yelling that across the street?
If you would feel a little bit uncomfortable with someone yelling that for everyone to hear, then maybe that's not the best channel name.
So choose something that you would be comfortable hearing, because people will refer to you as that because that's what they're gonna know you as.
Um, one person that I will use as an example is Superwoman.
So in her videos, like when she's doing skits and she's acting like her parents, um, her "parents" called her Lilly in her videos.
So you know that her real name is Lilly, but she's also known as Superwoman.
So if she was on the street and you called her Lilly, she would be okay with that because that's her name, but also, if she was on the street and you called her Superwoman,
she's okay with that because that's the online persona that she wanted to have.
So name your channel a name that you are comfortable with people calling you.
'Cause if you don't want to be called -- I don't remember what I said before -- "Unicorn Pony I Love Everything," then that's probably not what you should name your channel.
And the final thing -- I don't know why I held up a one -- but the final thing that I thought about before I uploaded my first video was,
"What day of the week do I want to upload on?"
So that's pretty important because, I already had my first video filmed probably a week or so before I actually uploaded it,
um, because as I said, I was like, figuring out all these things before I wanted to upload my video.
So let's say -- like today is a Sunday that I'm filming this right now.
So let's say I filmed and edited my video on a Sunday, but I decided that I wanna upload on a Thursday,
then don't upload your first video on a Sunday, you know what I mean?
So if you know that you want to upload on Thursdays, upload your first video on a Thursday.
If you're gonna upload multiple times a week and you know that your upload days are gonna be Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
then upload your first video on one of those days. Don't upload your video on a day that you won't be uploading on in the future.
So yeah, as I said before that's why my YouTube banner says, "Every Week" and not, "Every Monday,"
because I didn't know what day I wanted to upload on until I actually uploaded my first video.
In case you wanna know, the reason why I chose Mondays is because,
when I first started my channel, I would filmed, edit, and uploaded on the same day --
I still do that sometimes, but I'm trying to get out of that habit and like, film one day, edit one day, and then upload on a Monday
so that I have more time to get everything the way I want it -- but, um, at the time I used to do all of my YouTube stuff on one day.
And on Monday was the day that no one was in the house.
So like, Monday nights everyone else in my family had somewhere else to be and it was like, an every Monday thing; I was gonna be home alone.
And at the time didn't like other people being home when I was filming because I didn't want them to hear me.
Like, behind the camera like, there's a wall. On the other side of that wall is my brother's room, and like, 2 steps down the hall is my other brother's room,
and so like, I didn't want anybody to be home and like, hear me and like, if I made a mistake or something.
Because I make mistakes all the time when I'm filming, but then I just cut them out so no one get to hear it, right?
So I didn't want people to hear my mistakes and stuff, like now it's kind of gotten over that, um, but yeah.
Like, when I first started I didn't want anyone to be home when I was filming, so I chose a day when no one was home.
So to kind of recap this whole entire video, because I know that it's pretty long, um, things that I thought about that maybe you should think about are,
a good profile picture, what you want your banner to look like, what colours and fonts and the consistency on your channel to be,
and what you want your YouTube channel name to be, and what days you want to upload on.
So that's all for this week's video, I know that it's very long but I hope that it was informative,
I hope it gave you something to think about, um, in case you were thinking about starting a YouTube channel.
I hope you enjoyed it; if you did give it a thumbs up.
All my social media links will be down below in case you want to follow me on there.
Be sure to subscribe to my channel because I make new videos every Monday,
and I'll see you next Monday with a new video.
Also one more thing that I just remembered, um, you should think about what you want your channel to be about.
You can't make it too specific but you can't make it too vague. You need to -- like, my channel is kind of all over the place,
I do a little bit of this little of that, but that's because my channel is an opinion channel, so I can talk about my opinion on literally anything.
So you need to make it general enough that you can make videos for a long period of time.
So, like, this is my 75th video? I don't remember.
But yeah, so I've been making approximately 75 videos of me just stating my opinions about stuff, because I have a lot of them, and like, I upload once a week
so I can come up with a new opinion on something that maybe happened in my life during that week.
So yeah, make it -- don't make it all over the place like, "Now I'm a gamer, now I do makeup, now I do this, now I do that,"
but make it general enough that you can make more than three videos.
This picture is literally a selfie. I took it with the front-facing camera on my iPhone 4.
Yes?
Ugh loooooooong.
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