While it is the individual creator\u2019s playground, there are still ways for brands to find their corners in this perennial party and create videos, but only as long as they create and maintain their YouTube channel branding well. And this goes much further than a catchy banner image, profile picture, and channel description. This can be done with the help of partners<\/a>, or alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s a big investment of time, effort, and also money, so before starting a YouTube channel<\/strong> it\u2019s important for any brand planning to commit to a checklist of activities, a lot of which may be just essentially YouTube branding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Because once that ball gets rolling, it gains momentum like nothing your brand identity has experienced before. Here are some of the more important pointers from that checklist to help you to keep growing your target audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Firstly, YouTube is not going to be another platform for you to publish your generically created video content on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What you create for YouTube should be at the hub of all your content <\/strong>and everything else spokes on the wheel around that hub of YouTube branding. Then you will now have to approach your YouTube content as a creator with a genuine intent to entertain, inform and engage your audience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Your product or service in fact should feel like a spin-off of your YouTube videos. But that doesn’t mean you only just upload videos longer than that. Ultimately the quality of what you post dictates your YouTube channel\u2019s branding the most<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re a coffee brand, make them come to your channel for recipes. If you\u2019re an athleisure brand, invent backyard sports and get people to play. If you\u2019re in fintech give people weekly market summarization videos on your brand account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Brands sometimes lose sight of the \u2018human\u2019 aspect of what they do, focusing too much on the product and how to show up on a search engine. But the most conveniently drawn bridge between a brand and its consumer is a face, voice, and personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘People want to see people, not myths with price tags\u2019, is one of the key tenets of YouTube channel branding. This is why brands need to personify themselves when creating videos<\/strong> at scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Think impressionable hosts, impressive voices, and this sense of being presented to by a living-breathing human being. You don’t need to hire actors, but people from inside the company can play the part too. In fact, a strong personality and presentation style<\/strong> can make up for other expensive production elements like lights and setups by being the center point of your YouTube branding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, ensure that your channel description and video description follow a human and conversational tone. Think of it as a personal google account but more elaborate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This should have been the first pointer, but it\u2019s something generally accepted by anybody who\u2019s dabbled with content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But this also probably needs to be reiterated for YouTube given how easy it is to lose steam here. Every video that you create for YouTube will command a healthy amount of time, and soon it can become overwhelming, that too without much reward. But the secret sauce for a successful YouTube brand is the most boring one, patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the long game, YouTube is probably the most legitimate platform even though it has one of the lowest payouts. One way to ensure that consistency is maintained is sharing this burden \u2013 make this not one person\u2019s, but a whole team\u2019s mandate<\/strong>, you anyway shouldn\u2019t be starting a YouTube channel all alone. Your YouTube channel branding is going to happen over at least a year, and not a fortnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s nothing people like more than other people who know what they\u2019re talking about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As a brand on YouTube, you will anyway be expected to be an expert and\/or a trendsetter, a thought leader. So, demonstrating intelligence, action, and the willingness to do research<\/strong> is one of the strongest hooks you can have for your viewers, sealing your YouTube channel brand\u2019s success, at least partially. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A little introspection within your company will help dredge up heaps of knowledge for you to share, or you could even also bring on other experts from your domain<\/strong>, further adding credibility to your brand. Research, reflection, and constant self-education are always going to be one of your strongest sales and also part of your brand identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n In recent years, Millennials, as well as Generation Z, have quickly become the cornerstone of the working population. Their fluid and transient approach to employment, far removed from the “job for life” attitude of baby boomers, often results in a fairly high turnover rate. As a result, companies must now be proactive and use sourcing […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div> \n Brand awareness is not an easy metric to measure, but there are many reasons why it’s essential to measure and track it. It\u2019s the percentage of people aware of your brand. It\u2019s measured by conducting a brand awareness survey to determine how many are aware of its products or services or have heard about it […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div> \n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n While it\u2019s true you can create a fairly good video with free editing software and an iPhone, your viewers know that you can afford to do better than that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Your production quality<\/strong> is an extension of your YouTube channel branding \u2013 your setup, lighting, audio quality, editing, and profile picture are all directly linked to how audiences perceive you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So it might help to put agencies<\/a> or freelancers on your payroll, at least for a while. A lot of vloggers and YouTube influencers in fact happen to share their pipelines with editors and agencies, first shooting and leaving the rest to them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With time people will also notice your improving production quality and this begins its own virtuous circle of recommendation. The average production value all across YouTube increases every year and as a brand, you\u2019ll have to keep abreast of these changes to maintain your YouTube channel branding. A good starting point might be to consider creating a powerful channel trailer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Discover the most relevant agencies for your project based on your own specific requirements.<\/p>\n\n \n \n Find an agency!<\/span>\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Your social media channels are meant for engagement, but YouTube\u2019s comment section<\/strong> is amongst the most active places on the internet for dialogue, and it\u2019s a brand\u2019s opportunity to convert native viewers to actual fans, capitalizing on that last mile of YouTube channel branding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n YouTube is also the place where you send viewers who\u2019ve already taken to you to follow you on other platforms. The sheer stickiness that YouTube gives you is superior as compared to other platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For your channel page make sure viewers can enter your funnel through your channel description as well, and that your other social media channels are on your channel banner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n This is on the heel of the last point \u2013 use whatever YouTube can offer you to improve your YouTube channel branding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For instance, YouTube lets creators publish ephemeral video content called Shorts<\/strong>, which is almost exactly like TikTok or Reels. Like any other platform, it will want you to use these sub-formats to help you improve your YouTube channel branding<\/strong>, so it most likely also improves your score on usage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n YouTube will also keep experimenting and creating more such features for creators (like handles) in the future and every YouTube channel will have to be proactive to keep up. Also don’t skip out on using video playlists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The idea of having a YouTube channel should be incidental to the larger activity you are undertaking and the video content itself may be a sort of high-value documentation of that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For creating good video content<\/a> and maintaining your YouTube channel branding, a major effort should not go into handling the camera, but in pre-production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So maybe you\u2019ll have to travel, conduct experiments, interview people, create music, a nice channel trailer, do primary research, and giveaways, and you\u2019ll have to be original and entertaining the whole time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n YouTube branding is its own beast. If you have a brand, odds are you have a graphic charter <\/a>and you know your brand colors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But to have a YouTube channel that\u2019s easily distinguishable from other YouTube channels<\/strong>, it\u2019s important to extend it into your YouTube channel branding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are tangible and intangible aspects to this. The tangibles include the things that help you maintain brand consistency like the brand colors, video titles, the custom transitions in your edits, logo animations, video watermark, your banner image<\/a>, video descriptions, video thumbnails, and your physical setup. <\/p>\n\n\n\nResolve to be a \u2018creator\u2019 and not a canvas of ads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Don\u2019t be a bot<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Consistency<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Being smart and getting smarter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Why Sourcing is The Only Plausible Future of Your HR Strategy<\/h4>\n <\/header>\n\n
Why Branding Doesn’t Work Without Brand Awareness Metrics<\/h4>\n <\/header>\n\n
Rising above bare minimum production<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Using its other formats<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Stronger pre-production<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Treating ‘YouTube branding’ separately <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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