--- title: 'How to Create a YouTube Channel in 2026: Step-by-Step Guide' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=sVxoWhfsh5Y' video_id: 'sVxoWhfsh5Y' date: 2026-08-15 duration_sec: 1182 --- # How to Create a YouTube Channel in 2026: Step-by-Step Guide > Source: [How to Create a YouTube Channel in 2026: Step-by-Step Guide](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sVxoWhfsh5Y) ## Summary This video provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to create a YouTube channel from a mobile phone. It covers everything from creating a new email ID to setting up the channel and enabling crucial settings in YouTube Studio. The presenter emphasizes the importance of proper setup for channel growth and visibility. ### Key Points - **Create a new email** [01:07] — Create a new email ID specifically for the channel to keep it separate from personal accounts. - **Add account process** [01:37] — Open YouTube app, click on profile, select 'Add account', then 'Create account' to set up a new Gmail. - **Create channel option** [03:09] — After creating the email, you'll be redirected to YouTube where you can click 'Create a channel'. - **Profile setup** [04:41] — Set up your profile picture and channel name, and create a handle for easy searchability. - **Access YouTube Studio** [07:48] — Access YouTube Studio via a desktop browser on your phone to find the settings. - **Enable intermediate feature** [11:07] — Enable the intermediate feature by verifying your phone number to unlock longer videos and custom thumbnails. - **Enable advanced feature** [12:25] — Enable the advanced feature by taking a 6-second video or submitting an ID to unlock monetization. - **Set audience** [15:43] — Set 'Made for Kids' to 'No' for general content to keep comments enabled and reach a broader audience. - **Basic info settings** [15:56] — Select your country of residence and add relevant keywords to improve channel discoverability. - **Upload defaults** [17:27] — Choose the correct category and video language in upload defaults to ensure your content reaches the right audience. ## Transcript you want to create a YouTube channel from your mobile phone, then what is the right way to create a YouTube channel. Friends, I will teach you this in this video. Plus, friends, there are some important settings, if you are creating a channel and have not turned on these settings then there is You might be seeing my channel here. You can see that I have got millions of Why do these views go so high friends? Because I have set up my channel in the Friends, if you do not set up your channel properly, you will not get good views. If you brother, you will have to turn on the settings of your channel properly. Now there will be many where to find the settings of YouTube channel. So friends, I am going to tell you everything and I will show you live how you will turn on the settings. But yes how to create a YouTube channel? What is the right way? Now before moving ahead in the video, I have new to the channel, have visited it for the first time , along with subscribing to the channel, please you learn anything from this video, please give it a like. Now first of all let us talk friends that if you want to create a completely new channel then first you should create a new email ID. Yes friends, create a new email ID and create a new channel with the same email ID. How will you do all these things? Let me create an email ID here. So see what needs to be done ? You will have to open YouTube first with that email ID. So what do you have to do first? You please open the YouTube application. you have to click here on this corner side. As soon as you click, friends, you will find sound written here. You just have to click here. Now if you click here, all the email IDs showing in your mobile phone will be That too for a YouTube channel. So what do you have to do ? You have to click on the plus sign that is visible here. ? You have to click on the plus sign that is visible here. pattern will be, please fill it. This page will appear in front of you. Now look here it what will you have to do? First you have to click on Create Account. As soon as you click, it will tell you whether you want to business. Brother, if I want to create my own channel then I want to create it for personal use. As soon as you click, it will ask you what is your first name? Do that fill. fill. And then you have to click on Next. So let's fill it here. So please fill the date of birth here. Select gender etc. click on Next here. As soon as you click on Next, option to create a Gmail address. Ok ? Meaning whatever email ID you have to create. So look friends, you can write whatever you want here. Like let's say I want to make what I want to make here. This is how Rocky Abbas wrote it and let me just finish it here. If I click next, it will itself say that brother, this username is taken, which means someone has already created it, it is not available, so what do you have to do increase it here, I will fill some number here, if it is available then I will get it, I click next, it was available so I got it, okay now you have to create a password here, so you can friends, whatever is written here, you will click on next, see every process very carefully, okay, if you have a phone then password will always be saved in my phone. It is written yes I am in. Please click on this. Your email ID etc. will be shown here in front of you. Please click on Next. Then I Agree will be written here. Please click on this. After doing this, you had created for YouTube. Now where are you being automatically redirected ? Only on YouTube. Look carefully. Now look it is redirecting here. will see the email ID. Let's open it then. Let's click here. our email ID has already been selected here. And is clearly written here also. You can watch no channel. No channel has been created yet. But today I will teach you how to create a channel and will also tell you all the settings. But you are definitely not a YouTuber. You are thinking of growing, right brother? So, I have which is named Spreading Knowledge. Friends, if you want, you can search on Play Store. If you want, I have given the link in the description also. You can also go to my app by clicking there. Brother, I have taught you everything there about how to work on YouTube. You can create a channel brother, but if you do not know how to work then brother, you will spend years on YouTube. You will not be able to earn even ₹1. Go there and take a good look. Watch every single video. If you watch all those videos, brother, no one can stop you from becoming a YouTuber. And brother, you too can earn lakhs of rupees sitting at home. Do you understand? So you will get to learn everything there. Like today brother, you can do all this and we have uploaded on my app. Click now and go to the app and watch all the videos. Ok Now let us first tell you how to create a channel. Now friends, what do you have to do ? It is written here Create a Channel. All you have to do is click here because you have to create a channel. Look carefully. You have to click here. As soon as you page like this will open in front of you. Ok? Here you will be asked what logo you want to keep for your channel. If you want, you can put that logo here. You Ok? You can see here that this is the picture option. Let me apply it first. So After clicking, friends, I have already created my logo here. go to the gallery and here's my logo. I have selected it and you can see by zooming in a little here that it will be written below 'Save as Profile Picture'. clicked here. You can see my logo is installed here. You might be seeing it here on the side. Ok? The second one is telling friends to change their name here. Meaning, what do you want to name your YouTube channel? I want to create a channel with this name, so friends, please write that name here. If you want to change this friends then you can see here, you can write anything here. There will be a change here. Friends, below here it is written handle. What is a handle, friends? If you write your handle here, then if any person goes to the channel on YouTube and comments on any video, then only can see the handle if you want to search on YouTube. Whatever your handle is, if someone copies and pastes this handle on YouTube, your channel gets shown there. Do you understand? So you you can write whatever you want here. I just have to take this. I will click on save here. This handle of mine got you have completed all three processes. You have done it, you have put your profile picture. below it will be written Create Channel. You just have to click on Create Channel. Friends, as soon as your channel will be ready here. Here friends, you can see that my channel is written. You can see. Friends, this is your brand new channel which you have just created. you click here on your profile, your channel will show something like this here. Let show here. Ok? You can see it here. But friends, your logo has been installed. If you refresh it will show. What do you have to do to do this is made. Now you click on this pencil. As soon as you click here, you can see that the option to put your logo comes up. You have already installed it. Friends, in the option at the back, a This is the complete banner. If you open anyone's channel, a banner shows up at the back. You can apply this. Ok ? Let me show you my friends now. I here I have already created the banner. Let me click here on Choose from your photo. banner has been made. So I select this. After selecting it, friends, I save its size like this here. Now friends, you can see that and also the logo. Now friends, if you do not know how to make banners and logos then there is You will find the link in the description. By clicking there you can learn how to make a banner or logo. get the link there. Correct? Now friends, I have told you everything else here. This is the can copy it from here. You can send it to your friends. This is the link to your channel. Ok? Now friends, you have created the channel from here. This is your channel. Now the Ok? But friends, you do not have to upload the video here right now. Do you understand? First of all, there are some important settings of your channel. Brother, don't upload the video until you turn it on. ? Please look carefully. Where can you find important settings? Friends, there will be a Chrome browser inside your mobile phone. First you open it. Ok? After opening, friends, you have to write youtube.com here. Ok? You have to write this and friends, if you search here, then you whether your desktop is open in the site or not. Many people's friends remain open in this way. You something like this opens on the side. Ok? So if it is open like this then and it will be written desktop site here. All you have to do is click here. You desktop site here. You can click here. Ok? As soon as you click, YouTube application will open like this. Ok? It will What do you have to do now? You have to look carefully in this corner here. You have to click here in this corner. You can click here and select whatever Ok? So let me switch here. Here you will you have to do is click right here. Let me zoom in a little and show you. You can see here that it will be You can click here. Now friends, here you have to select that account created. Ok? So you can see mine here, this one is showing down here. click this here. As soon as you click here, friends, this you have just created. You can see that your profile will be visible here in the corner and zoom it a little. After zooming, you will see an option here written YouTube Studio. You click here directly, it will directly take you to the studio. What do you have to do? Please look carefully. What do you have to do? On YouTube Studio, keep your finger touching it for at least one to two seconds. Please process will happen now. Look here, I am clicking here, as soon as you click, this page will open in front of you. Ok? Now it will be written here, Open in New Tab in Group. Now what do you have to do here? You just have to friends, you can see below here, here on the corner side, on the bottom logo. You just have to click there. As soon as you click, friends, your new YouTube studio is open in front of you in desktop mode. Continue is written here. Click on it. It came open in front of you. Where do you find the setting now ? Friends, in the settings, you will find the settings logo right below. Let can see it here. You will see the setting logo here. You will go right down. You will see it here. You can see these are the people. Ok? You have to click on this setting. As soon as you click, this page will open in front of you. Please read this page carefully and understand it. The first setting is General. What's inside the general, friends? Whatever earnings you make on your YouTube channel, in which will it be shown? There are dollars here. You can do it in whatever currency you want. show in Indian Rupee then IAR will be written here. You can select Indian Rupee here. Whatever money you show will be shown in Indian Rupees. can see the channel here. You have to click on the channel. As soon as you click, Basic info, advanced settings and feature eligibility. It is very important. First of all, That is the feature eligibility here friends. What's inside it? Please can see the standard feature which is already enabled. So no problem. You But friends, we will have to make both of these green here also. How about green? Please understand carefully. The second one is the Friends Intermediate feature. You can see here, let me Intermediate feature. You can see here, let me you can upload videos longer than 15 minutes here. Plus you can also add thumbnails etc. If you don't turn this on, you won't be able to add thumbnails to your videos. friends? You can see it here on the side. Whatever photo you see in front of the video, you have made it yourself. After making it, it is installed. n't be able to use it. Okay, right? So it is very important to turn it on. Plus So friend, it is giving so many features to What is the process to turn it on? Verify phone number is written here. You just have to click here. As soon as you click, this page will appear in front of you. Ok? Now he is telling you that a code will be sent to your number. You can ask for a text if you want. You Whatever your number is, you will have to type it here. Country fill my number here. After typing the number, friends, you will see ' click here. Friends, an OTP must have been sent to your number here. six digit pay code is here. Let me fill this first. After writing the code, You have to click on submit here. As soon as friends, you click on submit here, You can see that it is written here that your number has been verified here. what do you have to do? Then you have to come back to this tab again. You have to open this one. You can see this process. Friends, my first one was already enabled here. my green tick has been made here. Ok? The second one is now enabled here. What's the third one, friends? This is an advanced feature. Please understand carefully here. written here. And the biggest benefit friends, you can apply to monetize your channel. If you do not turn it on, your channel will can see a lot more features here. Friends, you will get all these things. If you turn it on. Let's turn this on as well. Friends, Like it is written here, access feature. If three options appear in front of you. Friends, these are the three ways to turn it on now. Look carefully. The first one is take a 6 second video of yourself. If you have to make a 6 second video, you can turn it on under the advanced feature. The second is Take a ID then friends, you will have to click on its photo etc. here. Ok? The If you just keep working on your channel for about 2 months. If you keep working like this for 2 months, then friends, you will automatically get it on. It will be enabled. But you You go ahead, I'll do the first one. Clicked on Take a Six Second Video of Yourself. You can see friends, here you will be shown an email ID for which you might have created a channel. You will receive an email on the same email ID here. Ok? A mail came here on the same email ID. Ok? Now you will have to open that mail. So let me open it here. Friends, please watch the process carefully. Open Gmail. Friends, to open it, you will have to click here on this corner. Click and then friends, here mail has come. So what is my email ID ? this one's. So I here a mail has come from Google. I will open it. As soon as you open it, you will see that it is written here, Use Video Verification to Get Advanced YouTube scroll down. It will be written here: Start Verification. All you have to do is and what is he saying here? You have to And what do you have to do here? Next you have to click here. Ok? I am clicking here on next. The camera has opened here in front of me. click on start here. Clicked it. Ok? He is saying, now look here. So I Ok? He is saying, now look here. So I looked here. Ok? Then he said, look here. So I looked here too. It became a tick. Meaning I am not a bot. I am a human being. I am human. He checked this. You can see my video has been uploaded here. And it is clearly stated here that it will take up to 24 hours. Friends, within that, if you have followed this process correctly then it will be enabled for you. Ok? So I did it here, you have to wait here for 24 hours. It will be done Ok? Then friends, let me take you to this page. You can see here Friends, this will be enabled in some time. Ok? Now comes the turn of advanced settings here, friends. Friends, what is there in advanced settings? Please understand it carefully. This is a very important setting. Some new settings have first one is guys saying do you want to set your channel as made for kids. for children, you think it is for small kids, , and is made for small children , people who watch it watch cartoons etc. brother, then what will you have to do? Here you will get an option written Yes. Only then friends, your video which will be recommended will reach the children. Ok? It will not comment section of your video also gets turned off. If you do yes. Ok? Suppose you make such videos which adults can watch and understand. If there is such a video then Friends, you can change every video. If I click on no then my understand? So definitely turn on this setting. Now let's come to the basic info. This is also very important. The first is country of residence. Which country do you live in? So, whatever country you make the video from, you have to select that country. live in India. I make videos from India. So I have to select India here. What do people do now? They do not even select their country. They make videos Suppose you are making a video in India and your video is being shown in some other country and they are not able to understand your content, then from where will the views come and the selecting the country is also very important. Please select the country. The keywords is written here. Look carefully at the keywords written. What are these keywords? Friends, if you have a completely new channel and you want that anyone searches your channel shows on top, then you have to write the name of your channel here. These are those keywords. Plus, whatever topic you repeatedly make videos on, that too is a can write those keywords here too. For example, suppose I frequently make YouTube related videos Suppose I repeatedly make videos related to subscribers, can also write subscriber views etc. here. I can also write the name of my channel so that if anyone searches my channel by name, it will friends, whatever keyword is related to you, you can write it here as per your convenience. keyword is created here. So friends, in this way you can write the keyword here. Friends, after writing so many keywords, what will you have to do? If you want, friends, you Ok? So here you have to click on save. But friends, there are see here. It says Upload Defaults. This is even more important. Look carefully. As soon as you click on Upload Defaults, this page will open in front of you. The first is basic information. Ok? Basic info. The second is are more important. Look what's inside it? The most important category, friends, is this. What is this category? Friends, you have to tell YouTube which category your channel belongs to. categories given here. Let me zoom in a little and show you. Here you will see that your channel is about cars and vehicles, entertainment, music, gaming or if you travel, whatever work you do, friends, there is always some category of your channel. friends, there is always some category of your channel. not selected gaming here. That you are uploading videos and your gaming videos are being not like gaming at all. He doesn't know gaming at all. Meaning he does If you show him gaming YouTube videos, will your video get views? If it does not come, the video will stop. That's why friends, select the category so that your video reaches the right audience. here, suppose I have a technical channel, then suppose I click on the technology Ok? Clicked here. If you want, I can also provide education here. so I can also add education category. Sometimes you have some channels categories. So you can select any one category. selected. Now friends, here comes an option called language. Video language is written here. When you click here, many make videos in Hindi and if your videos are shown in America, those people watch the content in English. Will you watch your video ? Will not watch. Because brother, the you make a video in Hindi, if you select Hindi, then select Hindi, then You told me the country, the category and the So my language is Hindi, so you will have to select Hindi here. Look, Look, I found Hindi here. I have selected Hindi here. Ok? Now permission community or demographic or agreement, can skip this if you are completely new. Ok? What do you have to do? all your settings get saved here. Now friends, you have turned on all the settings of your YouTube channel, but friends, do not start uploading videos here right now. right way to upload videos. 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