If you want to put a trailer video and have it appear at the beginning of the YouTube channel, then we will show you the steps you must follow to place them correctly. In addition, from the computer or from the application available for mobile devices.
On the other hand, we will also teach you how to place a presentation video, whether you use a video that is on your YouTube channel, or select it from your files. As well as the way to import a gallery video.
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- What steps should you follow to place a startup video on your YouTube channel?
- On PC from the Web platform
- From the App on mobile devices
- How to put a presentation video on your YouTube channel?
- Use an already published video
- Put a video of your files
- How to import a video from your gallery to your YouTube channel to use it as the start of your channel?
What steps should you follow to place a startup video on your YouTube channel?
You can put a start video or a trailer on your YouTube channel, following the steps that we will explain shortly. Obviously, these steps will vary, and it depends on whether you carry out this procedure through the computer, accessing the web platform.
Or, failing that, if you do it on your cell phone, in this case, you have to have the application downloaded to make it much easier. Obviously, you need to have one or more accounts created on YouTube to be able to do it.
On PC from the Web platform
The steps you must follow to be able to upload the start video from a browser on your computer are the following:
- Access the official YouTube siteand log into your account.
- You need to upload the trailer to the account. That is to say, the video already has to appear there.
- After you have uploaded it, the next step is to access the section of my channel.
- After that, look for the section to customize channel.
- In this section, it is recommended to choose the main page option.
- There, a button will appear that says ‘For new visitors’.
- When accessing it, you just have to select the icon in which a pencil appears, since it is the only way to start editing.
- In this section, you must proceed to click on the trailer to select it as the start trailer for your channel.
From the App on mobile devices
You need to create your YouTube channel . To do it from your cell phone, the steps that we will teach you later are the ones that you must comply with. These steps are:
- You need to sign in to the YouTube Studio app.
- Proceed to select the personalization icon.
- Subsequently, you have to press the design button.
- There, you will see a video option of the moment, where you must click on add and then select one of your videos, or upload another to have it as a trailer.
- The next step is to click publish and that’s it.
How to put a presentation video on your YouTube channel?
In this case, if you are wondering the correct way to place a home or presentation video on your channel, you should know that you can do it in two ways. The first one consists of accessing one of your videos that is published and selecting it.
While the second is to select from your files , either from your computer or from your cell phone, the video that you want to use as the start for your channel.
Use an already published video
One piece of advice that we can tell you so that you can apply it is that if you choose the option of using a video that is already published. We recommend that you publish it as unlisted or private , so it can be a mystery to your audience.
Now, when deciding the video you want to use, you will only have to access the application through your computer or through your cell phone, there proceed to follow the steps that we explained previously . The only variant is that, when selecting the video, it will be selected from your channel’s video collection.
Put a video of your files
The next alternative is to choose the video from your files. What this option would change within the process or the steps to follow is that we do not select the video from the channel, but you will upload it from your computer or cell phone.
It is important that the video is in the best quality, the difference of uploading it this way is that it will not appear with all your videos, but will be immediately as the presentation or the start video.
How to import a video from your gallery to your YouTube channel to use it as the start of your channel?
It is very easy to import the video from your gallery, since the process that you must apply is the same as when uploading a video from your files, with the only difference that it is only available for your mobile device.
In addition to this, instead of choosing the files option, when selecting the + button to upload the video, you will have to select the gallery option. The video will immediately start uploading and when ready, it will appear as your YouTube channel trailer.
That’s how easy you can get more followers, since the idea or strategy of using a trailer or a presentation video is that. In addition to that you can learn how to create a personalized playlist of your videos and thus give your content more exposure.