Building Your Brand With Youtube - More Customization??

I am sure everyone is now familiar with some of the more popular YouTube video brands out there and I was jealous of one of them the other day because they had an area before the Subscribe button where they had obviously further edited their account and had their logo!!

Anna Saccone YouTube Video

How To Get Access 

1. After further investigation I found I needed to join a special YouTube Partnership Program to qualify for this. 

1. a. Obviously first of all if you don't already have your own YouTube Account then you should sign up. To start off you can customize this further, I found a nice blog post that discussed how to edit the profile page.

Once you have edited the page and are happy with it, you should match this to your brand (first rule of marketing a brand - make it the same, ie logo's, background, font - everywhere)

Personally, I wanted to build my brand further and make people aware that the various animations and film's I had came from Cr8:v-design, (me) and people could identify the logo I already have.

2.  Getting to the exciting part of this blog post - How do I the edit the header on my YouTube then?  

You have to allow YouTube to advertise on at least one of your videos - to do this you need to go to Your Account and Enable Monetisation. 

The word from YouTube on monetisation - 

"Your account is not enabled for monetisation. Enabling your account allows you to monetise your videos.

Having at least one video approved for monetisation makes you a YouTube partner, which provides you with opportunities to improve your skills and build your audiences. Learn more about the benefits of becoming a YouTube partner.

Monetise videos by clicking the $ icon or by selecting "Monetise" from the Actions drop-down menu.

For more information, visit Monetisation in your Account Settings."

allow monetisation

 

3. Connect to your Adsense account through YouTube or create an adsense account. This means if someone who's watching your video clicks on your advert then you get paid!

YouTube Payments

4. Then wait a week twiddling your thumbs so you can then edit the header and build your brand further and start earning some dosh too!

"Your AdSense Application has been submitted and is being reviewed. You will receive an email regarding the status of your application within about a week."

I am unsure if partnership means you can customize the header straight away or requires approval along with your adsense though because I literally did this today and I would love to know how everyone else gets on with this process too!

Further reading @ http://youtubecreator.blogspot.co.uk/

Brigid

cr8v-design.blogspot.co.uk

   

Easter Break But Work Is Never Over

Luckily college is over now until the 17th of April. Though I am not planning to take it easy.
I have a full timetable set out of things I need to study for the dreaded graded unit test on teh 2nd of May, the date is ever looming over my head and I just cannot wait to get it over with.

I am almost finished the Game Designer's website -

The design is ready to allow for more additions in the future.
It is set so that the initial first image not only has a hover effect but can be clicked to get through to another page so the rest of the projects images can sit beneath it.

This allows future projects to go on the homepage and allow room for bigger size images on the next following html pages.

Please feel free to visit the website. www.jaybiros.com

Once this website is complete I plan to take on a redesign for a website. The website already  has an advertising spend on Google which is costing a small fortune on pay per click per month.

I plan to change this so the website has the relevant keywords mixed throughout the content and reduce the spend. I will take this project on around mid April and do a complete re-design once the college course is complete.

The re-design should only take 40 hours, but I do need to check if the client has the funds to pay for my time, as I do need to eat! haha
check out the website www.argyllchalets.co.uk
Dont forget to visit my website too, I update all the time!

Brigid Visser

contact@cr8v-design.com

www.cr8v-design.com

 

Professional, creative, media design from CR8:V-Design.

Contact me: brigid.visser

Changed My Website

Yet again I have changed my website, I am never happy with it.
I find it easier to understand someone else's target market and know what kind of design their website should have.

In the case of For want of a better word, the design is quite simply like a newspaper and hopefully a quality one at that!

Forwantofabetterword - courses

It's clean, simple and modern.

Then I think about mine and I hate it, I am not happy with the design one bit! What is the best way to present a folio of work? Is there a best way?

I hope to continue learning at the very least and then hopefully gain some insight into how to present myself to the big wide world.


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