--- title: 'How to Create a YouTube Channel in 2026 | Step-by-Step Guide' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=dp29DIYX_do' video_id: 'dp29DIYX_do' date: 2026-08-05 duration_sec: 419 --- # 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=dp29DIYX_do) ## Summary This video provides a step-by-step guide on creating a YouTube channel in 2026, starting from logging into YouTube with a Gmail account to setting up the channel's name, handle, banner, and description. The tutorial is aimed at beginners and includes troubleshooting tips for common issues like duplicate names. ### Key Points - **Opening YouTube and Signing In** [00:02] — Open the YouTube app, tap the profile icon, then 'Sign In' and 'Add account'. If you have a Gmail ID, enter it; otherwise, create one via 'Create Account'. - **Creating a Gmail ID** [00:42] — A Gmail ID is required to create a YouTube channel. If you don't have one, click 'Create Account' and follow the process. A separate video link is provided for detailed instructions. - **Logging In with Gmail** [01:52] — Enter your full email address (including @gmail.com) and password. If two-step verification is enabled, approve the notification on your other device. - **Creating the Channel** [02:45] — After logging in, tap your profile icon and select 'Create a Channel'. Choose a profile picture (logo) and enter a channel name. - **Choosing a Handle** [03:41] — The handle is automatically generated from the channel name. If it's unavailable, you can edit the handle or change the channel name. Ensure the name is unique to get the desired handle. - **Channel Created and Editing** [04:49] — Once created, click 'View Channel' to see it. Then go to 'Edit Channel' to add a banner, write a description, and set privacy settings (keep subscriptions private). - **Uploading Videos and Further Settings** [06:24] — After setup, you can upload videos via the 'Create' button. About 20 more settings are needed for a perfect channel; a separate video covers these. ### Conclusion Creating a YouTube channel in 2026 is straightforward: log in with Gmail, create the channel, customize it with a logo, banner, and description, and then upload content. For a fully optimized channel, watch the linked video on additional settings. ## Transcript email ID etc. in our mobile. But brother, this red one which is the YouTube app, it definitely exists. So we will open this first. As soon as you open it, this kind of interface will appear. There will be no viewing. The U option will appear below. We will click on this. Here it will say Sign In. We will click on this also. Then it will say add account. We will click on this also. Now [music] look, here's something you need to understand. If you have locked it, then lock it. I had locked it. So I put the code here. Ok? Checking info will come here. Now what is this actually ? Let me tell you. Gmail will be here. So what do we need to do first? You will have to create a Gmail ID. After that we can create a YouTube channel. Now there are two options here. If you have already created a Gmail ID in your mobile and logged in, then the same email ID option will appear here. You can log in. If you already have a Gmail ID, which will be the case. By now, many people have already created Gmail ID and if you have bought a new phone, then you can also login by entering that email ID. If the phone is already logged in, the option of Gmail ID will appear. If not, please enter your email ID here. Click on Next and enter the password. Your Gmail ID will be logged in and you can create a channel with that too and if you do not have anything, you are such a person who has seen a mobile for the first time in 2026, held it in his hand for the first time, brother, you have not created anything till date, then you will have to click on Create Account and first of all you will have to create a Gmail ID by clicking on For My Personal Use, now you will say that I do not know anything about creating a Gmail ID, so I have made a proper video on this, the link will be available in the description, you can go and watch it. You will also understand how to create a new Gmail ID from scratch and by looking at it you can also create a Gmail ID. What will I do now? I already have a Gmail ID. I login here by entering my Gmail ID and password. enter the email ID. So we have entered our email ID. Then I will click on Next. Actually you will have to put it in completely. So you will have to add brother @gmail.com also. So here you will have to enter the complete email ID like this. So I put it here. We will click on Next. Ok? We clicked on Next. After this it will ask us for its password. So now we will enter the password. So here we entered the password. We will click on Next again. Now see, if two step verification is enabled, then if you are already using a phone, then a notification will come on it and you will have to say yes on it and see here it will be logged in. It is clearly saying that we have sent the notification on Oppo Reno 8 Pro. So if you are already logged in somewhere then you will have to say yes there. After that this type of option will appear and you will click on I Agree. As soon as we click on I Agree, we will be logged in to our YouTube with our Gmail ID. If it comes here, we will accept it. After acceptance, now we have to make Zee Channel. So see, here we create a channel. Now let me tell you how to create a channel. Now as soon as you log in and open YouTube again, your logo will appear on YouTube if you have created one. You will click on it. Now here you will come G Create a Channel. You can see here that we will click on Create a Channel and here we will of our channel. So we have created the logo here. I am explaining it to logo. You can create your own nice logo. First we will select the logo. Below we will write Save as a profile picture. Our logo will be set here. Now we have to name the channel. So the technical yogi belongs to this only. So I'll put Technical Yogi New here. I will keep this as the name of my channel. I will save it. So whatever name you want to keep for your channel, keep it. Now the G handle is coming down. Now see, you should keep one thing in mind like I am getting the handle of Technical Yogi New. That means no one has created any other channel with this handle. But if it had been made, I would not have got this handle. So I either had to make some changes to the handle by clicking on this pencil mark. Or I could have also changed the name of my channel. So always keep such a name whose name can also give you a handle. I have got. So what will I do now? I will click on create channel. Now see, I will click on create channel. So this is saying that use this name, this name is already in use. Okay all right. No problem. Let us keep some more names here. Like we keep new technical yoga. Let's keep this. Yes. Let's go sir. Let us keep this as new technical yoga. We will save this. Now we have got this handle also. We will click on Create Cell. handle also. We will click on Create Cell. because technically someone might have created a new channel with some name, but we did not find it exactly. Well, it's okay, sometimes it is not available because of duplicate. So we changed the name of the channel. We got it. Now we will click on view. Now look here, what is written in place of Create a Channel ? View channel. First there was Create a Channel. Now that the channel is created, view the channel. We will click on this view channel. So look here, our channel has now been created here with the name New Technical Yogi. Now we will go to the edit channel. Go to the edit channel. Now here he will ask us to put up the banner. So, this one has our logo on it. Here we will click on the camera and choose photos from the gallery. If you have already created a banner, then you will tick on the banner. Technical Yogi channel here. So, this is how we'll set this up for what it is. Ok ? So, we'll set it up. Now it is not even setting. None are well made. No problem. So, you will create your banner. Ok? Please make a banner and put it here. The banner will also appear here in a short while. Then comes the URL of the channel, this has also come. Now it comes to the fact that the channel has appeared but the banner of the channel is not made properly. So you make it properly and I have already made a video of it on my channel and please put the banner also. write something about the channel in the description. So now you write What will I put on the channel? Whatever I am writing right now, I am not writing videos for you. Right now I am writing this simply to explain it to you. Rest you write properly about this channel in it and then save it, yes it has been saved, now our description is also done, now this is privacy, let it remain on it, okay, what will happen with this is that whoever you subscribe to through this channel, they will not be visible to people, they will remain private for you, okay, now now whenever you click on you, this kind of option will come in front of you and as soon as you go to the channel and click on create, then your channel You can also upload videos. Now, some more settings have to be done on this channel. About 20 more settings have to be done. I have made a proper video on that too. Its link will also be found in the description. You should also watch that video. In that, You should also watch that video. In that, been told proper. Only then will your perfect YouTube channel be ready. If you have any other doubt or want to ask any other question, please comment. See you in the next video See you in the next video with a new topic. Till then, Jai Hind.