--- title: 'How to Create a YouTube Channel | Step-by-Step Guide 2026' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=rKpawxK-33g' video_id: 'rKpawxK-33g' date: 2026-08-15 duration_sec: 1245 --- # How to Create a YouTube Channel | Step-by-Step Guide 2026 > Source: [How to Create a YouTube Channel | Step-by-Step Guide 2026](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rKpawxK-33g) ## Summary This video is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for beginners on how to create a YouTube channel entirely from a mobile phone. The creator, who claims over 6 years of YouTube experience and millions of views, walks through the entire process—from creating a new email ID and channel to configuring essential settings in YouTube Studio. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of these settings for channel growth and monetization, and it also promotes the creator's own app, 'Spreading Knowledge,' for further learning. ### Key Points - **Importance of Channel Setup** [00:01] — Creating a YouTube channel from a mobile phone requires specific settings to be enabled; otherwise, hard work and video uploads may not yield results. The creator's channel has millions of views due to proper channel creation. - **Create a New Email ID** [00:55] — The first step is to create a new email ID, which will be used to create the YouTube channel. This is done through the YouTube app by switching accounts and clicking the plus sign to create a new account. - **Account Creation Process** [01:46] — Click 'Create Account' and select 'For personal use' for a personal channel. Fill in the required details like first name, last name, date of birth, and gender. Then, create a unique email address and password. - **Channel Creation** [03:33] — After creating the email ID, YouTube automatically redirects to the new account. Click 'Create Channel' and upload a profile picture (logo) and banner. Set a channel name and handle (the handle is used for mentions and comments). - **Access YouTube Studio** [07:55] — To configure important settings, open Chrome browser and go to 'studio.com' (YouTube Studio). Ensure the correct channel is selected. This is where all the essential settings are managed. - **Channel Settings: Currency and Eligibility** [09:01] — In Settings, set the default currency (e.g., INR or USD). Under 'Channel', enable the first eligibility feature (which is enabled by default). Enable the second feature by verifying your phone number via OTP to unlock thumbnails, videos longer than 15 minutes, and live streaming. - **Advanced Features Verification** [10:47] — Enable the third feature (advanced features) to monetize the channel. Verification can be done via a 6-second video selfie, an ID (like PAN card), or by waiting 1-2 months of channel activity. The video verification process involves recording a short video and submitting it for review. - **Content Settings: Made for Kids and More** [14:11] — Set whether your content is 'Made for Kids'. If yes, features like comments and stories are disabled. If no, the video reaches a general audience. Also, decide on automatic captions and whether to allow viewers to clip your content. - **Basic Info: Country and Keywords** [15:45] — Select your country of residence to help YouTube show your videos to the right audience. Add keywords related to your channel and content (up to 500 characters) to improve searchability. Save these settings. - **Upload Defaults: Category and Language** [16:52] — In 'Upload Defaults', set the video category (e.g., Education for podcasts) and the video language (e.g., Hindi) to ensure YouTube recommends your videos to the correct audience. Also, set the title and description language. - **Visibility Settings** [18:49] — Set the default visibility for uploads to 'Unlisted' so that videos are not public until you are ready. This allows you to review and finalize the video before making it public. - **YT Studio App: Channel Tabs** [19:28] — In the YT Studio app, go to the channel settings and enable the 'Home' and 'For You' tabs. These tabs help viewers discover your content. Turn them on to improve channel visibility. ### Conclusion The video provides a thorough, mobile-focused walkthrough for creating a YouTube channel and configuring essential settings for growth and monetization. It emphasizes the importance of verifying features and setting up metadata correctly to reach the right audience and unlock advanced capabilities. ## Transcript Friends, if you also want to create a YouTube channel from your mobile phone, then Along with creating a channel, there are some important settings, unless you turn them on, brother, no matter how much hard work you do on YouTube, how many videos you upload, I am not just saying this, if you look at my channel, you can see that here you can see 24 million views, 12 million views, 10 million views, all the views in million million why is all this happening because I have created the channel in a very good way, it has been almost 6 years since I have been working on YouTube, so I have a lot of experience if you are a completely new YouTuber, then how should you create a channel, all your things will go waste. You wo n't be able to do anything on YouTube. You will never be able to before moving ahead in the video, I have a small request. If you are completely new to the channel, then please click on the bell icon. If you like the video friends then please Come on friends let's start the video. Now first of all let us talk 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 this? Let seeing my mobile screen on the side. First of all friends, you have to create an email ID here. open YouTube first. Because you have to create a YouTube channel with that email ID. So what do you have to do first? You please open the YouTube application. After opening, friends, you have to click here on this corner side. As soon as you page will open in front of you. Ok? Now friends, you will find Switch Account written here. click here, all the email IDs showing in your mobile phone will be that too for the YouTube channel. So what do you have to do ? You have to click on the plus sign that is visible here. Let us click here. Please click. Whatever your MP 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 ask whether you want to business? Brother, if I want to create my own channel then I want to create it for personal use. So just click on personal use here. As soon as you click, it will ask you What is the last name? Meaning what is the surname? Do that fill. And then you have to click on Next. Here we clicked on Next. Ok? Now he asked you to fill the date of here. Select gender etc. After that friends, you have to As soon as you click on Next, this option will appear in front of you. Look, Ok? Meaning whatever email ID you have to create. So look friends, you 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 do next then you will see that he himself will say that brother this username is taken. Meaning someone has already made it. This is not available. So what do you have to do So let me increase it here. I fill some number here like this. If it is available, I will get it. I'll do the next one. It was available so I got it. Ok? Now if you want to create a password here, then create any password as per your choice. create a password here, then create any password as per your choice. You can charge some other rates etc. And you can write the rest of the numbers etc. here. So let me create my password here. Now after creating the password, friends, you will click on Next which will be written here. Please watch each process very carefully. Ok? I saved it. Now my 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. Friends, after doing this, now this email ID of yours automatically redirecting you to where ? Only on YouTube. Look carefully. Now Redirected. Now here you will see the email ID. Let's open it then. Let's Click here to switch account. You can see that our email ID has already been our YouTube has opened with this email ID. And it is clearly written here also. You can watch no channel. No channel has been created yet. You can see. So we have selected this. You can see this in front of you. So when you see your new email ID, when you Create a Channel. The channel is not made of this yet. The option to create a channel is coming. Ok ? So let's create a channel here as well. But yes friends, let me tell you one thing that today I will teach you how to create a channel and will also tell you all the settings. But friends, if you really want to grow on YouTube, if you are not a then I have created an application for you guys, whose name is Spreading Knowledge You will see the app there. 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 a single rupee. 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 today I earn lakhs of rupees from YouTube, brother. You can do all these things. And you will find my entire 6 years of experience in all the videos Click now and go to the app and watch all the videos. Ok? Then you will how to create a channel? Look, it will be click here. As soon as you click, this option will appear in front of you. Now look what is there here? Here I am telling you first of all that you have to click here and upload the photo. What is the photo ? Logo has to be uploaded. You must have created some logo for your channel to upload here. So what do you have to do ? If you want, you can also upload it by clicking here. If you want, you can upload it further. I will teach you that too. Ok? We will put it forward now. Ok? Friends, you can see here that the name is Friends, this name is the name of your channel. What do you want to name your channel? same name as the email ID you created. You must have thought of some channel name. Like for now I'll keep it here. Ah, I'll keep it here, spreading knowledge. I keep some spreading knowledge podcasts. Suppose I keep this. I will Look, it has been saved, you can see it here like this. Ok? And this is the handle. What is a handle, friends? Whenever you comment on any video, friends, only your handle shows there. The channel name does not show. Ok? And at the same time friends, if someone tags you or mentions you, then he will rate you and write the same thing, then he will be able to mention your channel. So this is the you will see 'Create Channel' written here. You just have to click here. As soon as you click, can see. Now friends, see, your channel is You have to click here. Click on this corner. is written here 'View Channel Na'. As soon as you click here, your channel will now channel friends. So friends, here you can see that you have not put the logo. So Look carefully. Friends, you can see here that you will make a pencil. Ok? You have to click on this pencil. As soon as you click, brother, you can see this circular thing in the middle, click on it and whatever logo you have created, it will be in the gallery. Look, I open my gallery and here I have created this logo. So just adjust this logo keep it. And below here it is written Save as Profile Picture, just click on it. Your logo is here. Observe each process very carefully. Ok banner friends. You can see this is called a banner. I have also made a banner. Just Click on it. Whatever banner you have made. I have made this banner. Select it. Adjust it here like this. Click on save. Your banner will here friends, you can see my banner has also been installed. Ok? If you want to change the name, the name will be changed from here, the handle will be changed, this is the URL of your channel, if you want to send the link of your channel to someone, just click here, it will be copied, okay friends, this is the description of your channel, you can work, you can see my description, it looks something like this, that's done, now you will see the channel, how is your channel looking, then go back and now when you can see that your channel is looking something like this here, now friends, by clicking on create here, but friends, you do not have to upload the video right now because there is a very important setting which you have not turned on yet. If you upload it now, YouTube will where to show your video and where is the viewing audience ? They will not know in which country it has to be shown. So all this will have to be told first. How will I tell you? Let us what do you have to do? You have to open Chrome browser in your mobile phone. Open the Chrome browser. After opening, friends, you have to type studio.com here, look carefully. You do not have to put a gap because if you look below, there is a space in all the things that will be shown to you, so you do not have to click on that, what like I have written it, okay write this, after writing you click on what is written below once, when you click, it will open like this, see here it will appear like this, continue will be you check once, this should be your same channel which you have just you click on it here, you click on the corner here, by clicking check your email ID or not? If it is not there then it is written Switch Account, click on it. All email IDs will be shown to you. Ok? It will show all the email IDs. Just click on the one you want. So I have the same one open. So let me shorten this. Ok? Look what has come open in front of you here? YouTube Studio opens here in front of you. Whose? The studio of the new channel you created has how to do the settings here? Look very carefully. There are some important settings here brother. Ok? Look, you have to zoom in on this first. Zoom in. Look, there will be a As soon as you click, this page will open in front of you. This will be written as Settings. Look at the settings. Look carefully. The first one is telling friends here that the currency is in default. want Indian then select IAR. If you want USD then let it be can select whatever you want. All the currencies will be given to you here. So this is USD here as is. Ok? Next, friends, channel is written here. You click on the channel and there are very important settings. Ok? Here eligibility, first of all we turn it on. This is more important. When you turn it on, you will see that the first one is on. It is showing enabled here. The first one is enabled. Ok? But the second one is not enabled. Eligible is written here. Click on this. This also has to be made green. Brother, what will you get if you make this green? You can add a thumbnail to your video. You will be able to add photos to the video only when you enable it. Plus you can upload videos longer than 15 minutes. You can come live. So you will be able to do all this work only when you enable this second one, which is intermediate one. How will you enable it? You will have to verify the phone number by clicking on Verify Phone Number. click. I clicked. Whatever your mobile number is, you will have to number here. After filling the number, friends, you have to click on Next which is written I clicked here. As soon as you click, brother, an OTP will be sent to this number. Ok? You will have to fill that six digit here. After filling, You have to click here on submit. As soon as you click, your number will be verified. You can see it has been verified. Now you just have to go to the same tab again. So Look, the second one will be verified now. You can see my two is clearly visible here in front of you. Both are enabled. Ok? Now comes the turn, too much setting. I will teach you everything. Look very carefully. How to enable the third one? Will you click? Look, if you enable the third one here, brother, then this is called advanced feature. If you enable this then only we can monetize the channel. You things that you will find here. So brother, please verify this. See how it happens. Ok? How do we enable this? Such a feature is written, Friends, you get three methods here. Look, there are three ways by which you can verify it. Let's see what happens. The first one is Take a Six Second video. I will tell you how to do that. What is the second one? Take a any PAN card etc., you will have to keep the PAN card in front of you, take a photo of it and upload it. Ok? Or if not, what is the third one? As you keep working on your channel, as your channel completes one to two months, you 2 months. If you keep working on your channel for 2 months, it will get you get many features. Do you understand? Otherwise, if you come live, there will be trouble. If you put an external link, there will be a problem. A lot of problems arise. Ok? which is take a six second video of yourself. Let me just do this one. If you want, you can do it with ID also. Ok? Select this. you click on Get Email here, then After clicking, friends, our mail would have arrived here. Let us open it in front of you. So we will first go to Gmail. Go to Gmail. This not, then download it from Play Store. Ok? Then I selected it. Now friends, you can see that ? Just what do you have to do? You have to click on this. If you click, you can see that it is written here, Use Video Verification to Get Advanced YouTube Feature. written here: Start Verification. All you have to do is click here. As soon as you something like this will open in your mobile phone. You can see here will show here. Plus if you scroll down, you will scroll down here and you can see that it will be written here, you have to tick here first of all tick it is written here I agree I agree, you have to click here, okay click here, as soon as you click brother, now it is asking you to click next here, so let's click next brother, now it is asking you to click next here, so let's click next close attention, I am doing it in front of you, I clicked in the start, go I clicked in the start, go up, then moved it up down down, up, then moved it up down down, Whenever you send this video in review brother, please You should always have the same email ID which you have created brand new. Select the same email ID. Ok? Now friends, if it opens directly in front of you then If it does not open directly. If something like this comes up. You can see here QR code etc. is visible. If this happens then friends, you Click on the three dots. After clicking, friends, it will be As you can see the desktop site has been removed from here in front of you. Now by clicking here you can verify it in this way and it gets verified. Friends, you will get the result here within 24 hours. This will tell you that verified and all three will be enabled for you. Ok? Now let's move on to our you get here is the advanced feature. You can see the advanced features. What happens in this, friends? Please be very careful. Here's one saying, "Do you want to set your channel to be for small children , for kids? If you are which target kids, making videos which are made for kids, then you will have to select yes here in made for kids. You can see that if you click on this here, then your video will show children. There is an application called YouTube Kids. Your video will show in that also and plus your video will show on YouTube. Whatever children watch it, small children, kids will show your video here. But if you do yes, then see look carefully, your option of posting stories will be disabled, comments will be disabled, comments etc., no one will be able to comment on your video, okay, if you do it for kids, then now YouTube will not show your video to kids, only your video will reach big people, so if you are making a video in which you are teaching something, then so set this, this is a big video of mine, so I am telling this for big people, brother, I have clicked on no, if you want automatic captioning, you can say yes, but it is not necessary, you can skip it, you can also skip advertisements, you can tick it, if you want, you can remove it, what happens in this is that if you tick the clip one, what will happen with this is that remove it, what happens in this is that if you tick the clip one, what will happen with this is that remove anything from your clip He can create something like allow viewer to clip my content, he will take out a clip from your own content and upload it on his channel or you are giving him permission, if you do n't want to give it then remove it, okay, next is third need for it, okay, now here friends, a setting comes, you can see under basic info, country of residence, what is this, friends, which country does your channel belong to, select it here, brother, how will YouTube know in which country your video has to be shown, brother, you will know from here, suppose if you create US content, you want that all my viewers should come from US, my video should be shown in US, then select US, that is, select United States, you can select that country here, suppose I have to select India, India has been selected here, okay now friends, here the next option brother? What happens with keywords is that if anyone searches for your channel, your channel should be Now suppose the name of my channel is, then you also have to do the same. You have to you also have to do the same. You have to One of your keywords is created here. Plus the thing your channel is related to. For example, I write podcasts. Here you can see that you can fill up to 500 words here. It's You can write as much as you like. But yes, you can enter keywords related to your content, and your channel name must be there. After all this is done, friends, it is written save here below. Please save this. First of all, save this much. Ok? After saving, friends, you have to open the same settings again. After opening, friends, your work is completed here. This is complete. Now comes the upload default. What is this? Let's click on this. The first is basic info. Let's which are the most important. What category is written. Can you see what is category category friends? If your non is selected here then you do not have any category. How does YouTube know whose video to show yours under? Where is your video viewing audience located? How will we know? By category you will tell that I those who watch gaming videos. Do you create a blog then select the blog. All the categories are given here. You check it. You can see that every category is here. If you create a blog then post it on the blog. 's music, put in music, put in entertainment, every category is here. There are some categories of yours which have two or three types of categories within the same category. Do you if you put it in entertainment, then there are many categories in entertainment. So you can select it. If you do not find your category in it, then select any category related to you. Ok? Now suppose I want to do a podcast here and then what will we select here? We just select education. Ok? ? Here you will get an option for the language of the video. speak? If you speak in Hindi then select Hindi so that YouTube also thinks that your video is in Hindi. If you speak in Hindi language then your video will be shown to Hindi speaking audience. Otherwise, it will be shown abroad or to an English speaking watch in English language will not understand your video. They will block your video. viral? Do you understand? So that is why it is very important to select everything. Ok? You will have to select Hindi here. So you scroll down here. Look, Ok? Title Description Language If you write your title English If you write in Hindi then select Hindi If you keep writing both then you it will automatically take it as per its convenience, okay plus if you want to turn off comments here then you come in basic info, friends let me show you in basic info, there is visibility here, what is upload a video, at the time of uploading, should it remain public or private or if you upload the video by making it public then everyone will start seeing the video as soon as it is uploaded, everyone will start seeing the video as soon as it is uploaded, you can see it and no one else can see it. If you upload it after unlisting, no one will watch your video. Only the person to whom you send the link of that video can see it. Ok? And later when you feel that the video has been made perfectly. It has been uploaded. Everything, title, keywords have been added. Now you make it public. Everyone will see it. Ok? So always keep it unassisted here. ? After doing this, friends, you can see that almost all your settings have been not that important. Ok? So friends, from here you have turned You should also see this. Like what do you have to do? Open the YT Studio app on your mobile phone. Ok? Please download this. It will be available from Play Store. click on the corner here. After clicking, friends, you have to click on the pencil made here. As soon as you click, brother, you can see here that an option will appear. The home tab. Now friends, let me explain to you what this thing is. Now if you can see the channel, here you will see a For You etc. and see all this, all these things have to be turned on, if you do from here, suppose this Home one is there, I have turned it off, Home one of yours will get disabled, I will show you, let me hit refresh and then go into it, removed here, then the Home one is from here, okay, what happens in For You friends, is that if anyone watches one of your videos, then whatever video you make related to it, So you should turn on this option also. So friends, this was it, friends, if you want to learn YouTube then you must visit my app once. Click now and go to the app and there brother, if you want to become a YouTuber quickly then watch all the videos and you will become a YouTuber very soon and you will earn a good amount of money from YouTube. Click here and download the app now