• Part I: Getting Started With YouTube Channels
• Making a Home on YouTube
✔ The YouTube Phenomenon – Why You Need To Be on YouTube
✔ Audience, audience, audience
✔ Incorporating YouTube into and marketing plans
✔ Becoming a star
✔ Going viral
✔ Wasting lots and lots of time
✔ Seeing What Makes a YouTube Channel Unique
✔ Angling for subscriptions
✔ Establishing your brand
✔ Managing Channels for Fun and/or Profit
✔ Creating content
✔ Building an audience
✔ Building a business
✔ Monetization
• The Basics of YouTube
✔ What You’ll Find on YouTube
✔ Managing your identity
✔ Navigating the home page
✔ Watching a video
✔ Working with a YouTube Account
✔ Getting an account
✔ Logging on to your YouTube account
✔ Creating a YouTube Channel
✔ Verifying Your YouTube Channel
✔ Setting Up a Custom Channel URL
✔ Joining the YouTube Partner Program
• Building Your Channel from the Ground Up
✔ Navigating Your Channel
✔ The My Channel link
✔ The Channel tabs
✔ The My Subscriptions link
✔ The History link
✔ The Watch Later link
✔ The Purchases link
✔ The Playlist Section link
✔ The Subscriptions Sections link
✔ The Browse Channels link
✔ The Manage Subscriptions link
✔ Customizing and Branding Your Channel
✔ Creating channel art
✔ Managing channel art
✔ Creating the channel icon
✔ Uploading the channel icon
✔ Managing your links
✔ Managing Uploads
• Part II: Making Good Videos and Not Making Bad Videos
• What Makes a Good Video a Good Video?
✔ Picking the Right Camera for Your Needs
✔ Knowing What Makes a Good Video
✔ Mastering the Genres in Your YouTube Videos
✔ Mastering music videos
✔ Producing your very own vlog
✔ Making an educational video
✔ Making tutorial and how‐to videos
✔ Let’s play (and make) gaming videos
✔ Making animal videos
✔ Capturing sporting events
✔ Film and animation
✔ Entertainment
✔ News and information
✔ Viral Videos versus Evergreen Content
✔ Viral content
✔ Evergreen content
• Making Plans Both Large and Small
✔ Establishing Your Channel’s Mission
✔ Determining your goals
✔ Being different, being valuable, being authentic
✔ Surveying the YouTube landscape
✔ Understanding Your Target Audience
✔ Going narrow versus going broad
✔ Knowing why your audience matters
✔ Finding out the nitty‐gritty about your audience
✔ Defining Desired Actions
✔ Planning an Outstanding YouTube Channel
✔ Having a spokesperson
✔ Branding
✔ Planning the channel layout
✔ Crafting a Content Strategy
✔ Recognizing that content includes video and more
✔ Looking at content formats
✔ Curation recycling
✔ Programming for Success
✔ Delivering content consistently
✔ Being flexible and reactive
✔ Going live for more engagement
✔ Planning Doesn’t End
• Acquiring the Tools of the Trade
✔ Checking Out Your Camera Options
✔ Working through the (camera) basics
✔ Looking at DSLRs
✔ Checking out camcorders
✔ Settling for smart phones
✔ Stabilizing the Shot
✔ Seeing Your Way with Light
✔ Setting up 3‐point lighting
✔ Setting up high‐key lighting
✔ Capturing Sound
✔ Looking at microphones
✔ Capturing good audio
• Putting It All Together to Capture Some Video
✔ Setting Up for a Shoot
✔ Getting organized
✔ Completing your checklists and “shoot sack”
✔ Arriving on set
✔ Planning a realistic shooting schedule
✔ Practicing good habits before a shot
✔ Maintaining continuity
✔ Shooting a Great‐Looking Video
✔ Composing and dividing the screen
✔ Determining the best shot
✔ Moving and grooving the camera
✔ Matching your eyelines
✔ Following the 180‐degree rule
✔ Shooting an interview
✔ Shooting extra footage and B‐roll
✔ Capturing the perfect take — several times
✔ Working with Voice
✔ Practicing diction and dialects
✔ The power of the pause
✔ Managing crowd audio
• Fixing It in Post: The Edit
✔ Choosing Editing Software
✔ Mac tools
✔ Windows tools
✔ Where to Get Started with Editing
✔ Attempting a test project
✔ Handling file formats, resolution, and conversion
✔ Editing Your Video
✔ Logging your footage
✔ Trimming video clips
✔ Making a rough cut
✔ Switching it around
✔ Creating cuts
✔ Filling the gaps with B-roll
✔ Polishing Your Video
✔ Fine-tuning your edit
✔ Adding bells and whistles
✔ Adding Music to Your Video
✔ Adding built-in music in video editing tools
✔ Incorporating stock music libraries
✔ Putting music in your video
✔ Adding emotional impact
✔ Cutting your video to music
✔ Cutting your music to video
✔ Adding Voiceover and Sound Effects
✔ Exporting the Final Version
• Preparing for Upload Day
✔ Preparing Your Channel for Uploads
✔ Checking your YouTube account hygiene
✔ Maximizing the options for accounts in good standing
✔ Enabling channel features
✔ Tending to Video SEO Matters
✔ Titles
✔ Descriptions
✔ Tags
✔ Thumbnails
✔ Uploading Your Video
✔ Picking the source
✔ Going public about YouTube privacy
✔ Uploading to YouTube
✔ Entering information about your video
✔ Setting upload defaults
✔ Adding Custom Thumbnails
✔ Publishing and Unpublishing Videos
• Part III: Growing and Knowing Your Audience
• Building Your Audience
✔ Developing a Community
✔ Deciphering audience evolution
✔ Determining what you want your audience to do
✔ Appreciating the importance of community
✔ Fans and Insights
✔ Understanding Subscribers and Their Value
✔ Convincing viewers to subscribe
✔ Specifying how subscribers get updates
✔ Setting the channel feed and privacy levels
✔ Treating subscribers and nonsubscribers differently
✔ Managing Comments
✔ Seeing why comments matter
✔ Setting up your channel for comments
✔ Moderating comments
✔ Reacting to inappropriate comments
✔ Using Messaging
✔ Configuring Community Settings
✔ Getting Viewers to Engage
✔ Working with annotations
✔ Exploring the annotation types
✔ Specifying an annotation target
✔ Setting up annotations
✔ Getting creative with annotations
✔ Adding branding to the mix
✔ Capturing the Captioning Opportunity
✔ Adding subtitles and closed captions
✔ Having viewers contribute subtitles and closed captions
• Knowing Your Audience
✔ Getting Started with YouTube Analytics
✔ Reading YouTube Analytics reports
✔ Breaking down the report components
✔ Grouping information
✔ Comparing data
✔ Setting up report filters
✔ Understanding visual charts
✔ Managing report details
✔ Learning about Views
✔ Seeing which content is the most popular
✔ Determining whether viewers are watching or leaving
✔ Understanding Your Audience
✔ Diving into demographics
✔ Diving into subscribers
✔ Optimizing Discoverability
✔ Seeing where viewers find your content
✔ Finding out where (and how) viewers watch your content
✔ Making Sure Your Audience Is Engaged
✔ Getting Engagement Reports
✔ Going In‐Depth on Annotation Analytics
✔ Understanding annotation lingo
✔ Getting your annotation metrics
✔ Seeing whether your annotation are working
✔ Beyond YouTube Analytics
• Part IV: YouTube Channels Are Serious Business
• How and Why Businesses Use YouTube
✔ Understanding Video and Business
✔ It’s all about video marketing
✔ Brand decisions are made on YouTube
✔ Understanding Your YouTube Business Components
✔ Content matters
✔ Community and content creators
✔ Advertising
✔ Integrating YouTube with Other Campaigns
✔ Cross-media integration
✔ YouTube isn’t television (or cable)
✔ YouTube isn’t Google, either
• Expanding Your YouTube Advertising
✔ Understanding YouTube Advertising
✔ Recognizing the importance of ad policy
✔ Looking at YouTube ad types
✔ Planning for Advertising
✔ Creating an AdWords account
✔ Linking your and YouTube channel
✔ Determining Your Ad Targets
✔ Setting up general targeting
✔ Configuring more narrow targeting
✔ Navigating the AdWords for Video Page
✔ Exploring the Campaign navigation menu
✔ Looking at your campaign details
✔ Setting Up a YouTube Ad Campaign
✔ Going with a general campaign
✔ Selecting bidding and your target audience
✔ Sharing your remarketing list
✔ Placing and Managing Your Ads
✔ Measuring Clicks and Results
✔ Looking at campaign information
✔ Getting earned metrics
✔ Optimizing Your Campaign
✔ Creating a Call‐to‐Action Overlay
• Mining the YouTube Goldmine
✔ Integrating AdSense
✔ Setting up YouTube monetization
✔ Linking your channel with AdSense
✔ Creating your AdSense account for YouTube
✔ Setting up AdSense monetization
✔ Analyzing Ad Performance with YouTube Analytics
✔ Getting your YouTube ad information
✔ Seeing which metrics are offered
✔ Analyzing your ad performance
✔ Determining your estimating earnings
✔ Managing AdSense for YouTube
✔ Reconciling AdSense with YouTube Analytics
✔ Adding AdSense controls and reporting
✔ Making Monetization Adjustments
✔ Looking at key ad‐serving metrics
✔ Managing monetizable ad inventory
• Part V: The Part of Tens
• Ten Key Steps to Improving YouTube Search Results
✔ Updating Video Metadata
✔ Managing Video Titles
✔ Understanding Working Titles
✔ Optimizing Thumbnails for Viewer Session Time
✔ Managing Video Descriptions
✔ Adding Closed Captioning
✔ Handling Tags
✔ Refreshing Metadata
✔ Understanding Channel SEO
✔ Avoiding Misleading Metadata
• Ten Things to Know About Copyright
✔ Remember Who Owns the Copyright
✔ Attribution Does Not Absolve a Copyright Violation
✔ Know the Consequences
✔ The Profit Motive Is Irrelevant
✔ Getting Permission for Using Copyrighted Material
✔ Fair Use Is Complicated
✔ Don’t Let Copyright Issues on YouTube Lead to a Strikeout
✔ Wipe the Slate Clean
✔ YouTube’s Robots Are Good at Finding Copyright Infringements
✔ Copyright Is Not Forever, But It’s Likely Forever Enough for YouTube