Step 9: Adding Your First Video

Well, for YouTube channel owners, the sweetest thing is how to add a video. Click the arrow in the upper right corner and select a video from your personal computer.

Uploading of the selected video will begin. While this process is ongoing, you can choose a name, make a description and set tags.

If you want to make it a bit cooler, just head straight to the Advanced Settings section. Here you can allow or close comments (by default they are open), allow or block access to the statistics of video views (by default open), select a category for the video, set age limits and more.

Now hit the Publish button.

After a while, when several videos are published, the channel will begin to gain popularity, new subscribers will come, some of the videos will start to “generate massive views”, and others will not, there will be a need to study the channel’s statistics.

To go to the channel statistics section, on the channel’s main page, hit the corresponding button at the top.

YouTube Channel Statistics

In the channel statistics you can view:

• Statistics for a certain period (day, week, month, year or randomly);
• Total viewing time;
• Average viewing time;
• Number of views;
• Comments, likes and dislikes;
• Regions in which you most often watched videos
• From which sites playback was launched (from YouTube or other sites)
• Demographic data of the audience (gender, age, etc)

Having studied in detail the statistics for your entire channel, it is possible to identify videos of what format the audience is interested in, what mistakes are made when creating videos, and for which audience it is necessary to create content.