How To Create A You Tube Channel

•Social media is a low-cost, often free way to promote yourcause. People of all ages are signing up for social mediasites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

•YouTube lets people watch videos about your cause andlets them interact easily.

Many large and small companies, nonprofitorganizations and individuals have YouTubechannels. Creating a channel allows you toput all your information together in oneplace. It adds another medium for peopleto get involved and interact with your cause.Also, it can serve as a great networking tool.

The best part? A YouTube channel is easy toset up and it is free!

Non-Profit

Do Something

March of Dimes

Stand Up to Cancer

News

CNN/YouTube Debates

The Washington Post

1. Go to www.youtube.com

You should see the screen below

2. If you already have a YouTube channel clickSign In in the upper right corner. If you don’t havean account click Sign Up in the upper right corner.

3. Once you are signed in click on your username in the upperright corner. This will bring you to your channel.You should see the screen below

4. Click on Edit Channel in the upper left corner. This will allowyou to change channel info, change the channel design andorganize your videos.

You should see the screen below

Adding videos is easy5. Click on Organize Videos.

You should see the screen below

6. Click on upload in the upper right hand corner.

You should see the screen below

7. When you are done making edits click onupdate channel.

Nonprofit ProgramMany organizations quality for YouTube’s Nonprofit Program

Benefits:• Premium branding capabilities and increased uploadingcapacity•The option to drive fundraising through a Google Checkout"Donate" button•Listing on the Nonprofit channels and the Nonprofit videospages•Ability to add a Call-to-action overlay on your videos to drivecampaigns

Overstream•This program allows you to add captains to your videos.

YouTube annotations•Use this to add links, etc. to your videos

1. Sign out of your account.2. Search in YouTube for your organization.3. See if anything comes up.4. If you can find your channel make sure everything looks likeyou want it to!

YouTube is a great way to promote acause on a budget of any kind. Socialmedia is always changing andexpanding. Experiment and have fun!