 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. So I wanted to record a video Just demonstrating something I've been doing for a number of months now with YouTube and if I may be so modest I think it's a pretty decent idea one of maybe my better ideas. I've had Over the last year in terms of tech stuff and that is basically setting up a testing channel For YouTube and I wanted to just take a few moments in this video to kind of just talk Through why you might want to do that why I did that and what I use it for just to kind of give you an idea If you're also starting out on your YouTubeing journey just like I am and you want a separate place to kind of test with now There are a couple of reasons that you might want a different channel But before I even get into that let me bring across here the terms of service and the caveat here is I'm not 100% certain doing something like this is Kosher the AV YouTube and the reason that it's that I'm sort of checking this and mentioning this is that it's always a good idea to at least make an effort to figure this out now if you wanted to dig deeper into this question you could probably YouTuber very hard to get hold of someone at the company, but they do have community forums There are a few active subreddit so you could try asking around there, but I suspect it's fine But these are in any event they're YouTube terms of service which you can find easily available on the internet and I just did a search within this document for Channel and I just saw what was there and under the section Google accounts and YouTube channel they basically say You can use parts of the service without having a Google account. However, you do need a Google account for some features With the Google account you may be able to like videos Subscribe to channels and create your own YouTube channel So that's not really saying anything particularly revolutionary or that anybody who uses YouTube doesn't know Already that you need a Google account to create a YouTube channel You know, they say the channels can't violate YouTube's content policies And there's a separate section about that You may use your content to promote your business or artistic emphasize You must not submit to the service any content that does not comply with this agreement or the law such as copyrighted material I'm just gonna put myself Down here just for a few moments Your legal response for the content you submit We may use automated systems that analyze your content to help detect infringement and abuse such as spam malware and illegal content so I try digging through this these terms and conditions and I didn't see anything that said to me obviously, you know YouTubers cannot Operate a channel for the purpose of testing their footage I didn't see anything like that But I'm just wanted to be totally transparent and say that you you know do this at your own a discretion Now in terms of how many accounts you can set how many channels you can set up with anyone Google account So something just to realize is that and according to this article now that was from 2019 from harsh Agrawal Thanks to YouTube for coming up with a great idea of multiple YouTube channels under a single Gmail account By the way, also a G suite account or what's now called at Google Workspaces you can create up to 50 YouTube channels So you're you're not going to run into any limitation regarding the number of channels and when you go and create a channel in YouTube you are creating a new Brand account So there's a difference between a Gmail account or a Google account whether we're talking Gmail or we're talking Google Workspaces and a brand account But in any event you can have up to 50 Brand accounts on one Gmail account and if you're like most people you're not going to come anywhere near That 50 limit even if you do keep a couple of channels for testing So I just wanted to firstly make that make those couple of Points clear now. How do you go and create a new YouTube channel? So there is what I like to think of as the magic URL and that is youtube.com forward slash channel underscore Switcher and I just kind of put it up here Now the reason I call it the magic URL is that's where you get to this nice page which has your channels and I Have not found it through the back end and I've heard other people saying the same thing And like it's just not there in the menus and this is like such a vital URL Please correct me in a comment if it is there in any event It's not hard to put that URL into your bookmarks and once you're at that URL You can shift between your different brand accounts if you have multiple ones And you can also get to your a create a new channel now just another recommendation is if you are using Creating a YouTube brand account for a personal channel I personally think it's not a good idea to use your default brand account every Gmail account And G suite or Google work workspaces account comes with its own YouTube so you can just go into YouTube and click on create a channel now I don't recommend doing that I recommend that even if you're only planning and operating one channel without any intention to do You know something like a testing account nevertheless I think it's good to keep that separate so that if you want to if you're gonna start working with I Don't know a marketing agency and you want to add managers to that brand account that it's already gonna be a separate entity To your main YouTube account, so that's just my personal recommendation On that front now. Let's get back to let's get back to this so if you've gone through the channel switcher you can now create a new channel and I just called mine very imaginately Daniel Rosal Testing but you can you know you can you can use your own Imagination to figure something out now I have set up a couple of these one was called Daniel Rosal staging and my idea there is to have some kind of a workflow whereby I Would put in videos that were sort of and in the process of development and if I wanted to show them to Somebody for feedback Let's say a creative partner or an internet community that rather than show them something living on my actual YouTube channel I would have a staging channel and that would just kind of keep those things separate now Probably not necessary, but if you have that 50 limit I kind of say if it's okay with Google build out a few different resources for yourself now Let me talk about the the testing channel and what you might want to use it for So let me just go back in here to the channel and The advanced settings permission and let's start this with looking at the Looking at the channel first of all so once you've got your new channel set up This is the testing channel. I've just created and there are a couple of things I would typically do or change in the settings, right? Firstly, you might want to add brand manager So let's just think of a situation in which I'll give you a real one So I'm thinking about live streaming a wedding for a friend in a couple of days Now, this is actually a real thing. My friend is having a wedding On Friday and he hasn't figured out like the live stream aspect for the wedding and he's like He asked me if I could like help him out and I'm looking into options One of those being doing a live stream on YouTube now The same logic applies if I'm going to be testing doing something like streaming different cameras from OBS I would rather do that on a separate Channel that I'm not going to be sending out to anybody whether that's subscribers or Just you know people at the wedding, let's say so that's just another example of that now one thing I should point out is that when you when you enable yourself Access to the more advanced YouTube features that goes on a channel by channel basis now What I mean by those features is stuff like uploading videos that are more than 15 minutes in length or Creating live streams Whether those are live live streams that you create on the fly or whether those are scheduled live streams So before YouTube lets you live stream From a desktop It needs you need to validate your cell phone and then that process takes 24 hours now all this applies at the time of recording So you want to go and do that on if you're going to be testing it live streaming from this sort of a thing a testing channel You want to go ahead and do that 24 hours before you want to do the test second thing again is regarding the Upload limit of 15 minutes if you want to get rid of that It's going to be a problem for your testing account Then just know that even if you've done that on your main account, you're going to have to do it again Because this is considered a separate channel. It's considered a separate brand account. It's kind of like its own Entity in the world of Google in so far as that you know You can add different brand managers that are on your main account So it's like its own thing and therefore even if you've gone through that validation once you're going to have to go through that validation again, so and if you So here's just kind of a few changes I would make or that would come to mind and there's only actually one key one So go into channel settings And I would change the visibility to either private or unlisted now The difference between those is that when you have a private URL in YouTube, it's just visible according to which Google accounts it's been shared with so you have to share it each time with a different Google account and unlisted is much more powerful Technically a little bit riskier because it's a URL that anybody with that link can see so For this use case for my friends wedding I would probably actually do No, I probably do private because they're both on Gmail and I would add them both as Brand managers or I would do unlisted for this one Let's go for this demo channel. Let's go with a private For the moment and that means the default upload setting It's going to be private. So I don't really need to worry so much because if I'm just going into my phone and quickly Trying a new microphones and I want to say hey What are those going to sound like on YouTube after YouTube has processed the video and that's exactly the kind of thing I would use this testing channel for because you know, I know what my what it's going to sound like by recording it That's pretty easy But if you want to see what it's going to sound like in YouTube then the best way to do that would be to go through this process of trial and error and Seeing how that would actually sound so You know, you could add more things here for instance and going to add that you know Testing video, please do not share this you are out publicly or with External parties. I probably wouldn't put something as as corporate sounding as this But you get the idea if you're making videos with Sort of a buddy or a couple of friends and you want to play around amongst yourselves. You could add one another as channel managers and That would mean that you'd both be able to Upload to this testing channel from your YouTube app So your friends on a different Gmail, you're on a Google workspace account or G Suite It doesn't matter add him as a manager into the brand account I'm just going to show you where that screen is as well That is that screen. This is this is the screen that looks like this. You have a brand account details and there's a little User box here where it says manage permissions now. None of this is permanent, which is pretty cool so that if you later decide that you Don't want to have this testing account and you're happy to get rid of the videos you might have seen on that last screen there was a little button saying delete account and You can just delete the brand account So that's basically everything I really kind of have to say about these testing accounts You know, I would configure the permissions to Upload defaults to private and there's one more thing actually that I'm going to show And that is that I would Take off the I would just try to keep this channel sort of out hoping to do everything in your power To prevent people from discovering it which is probably the exact opposite of what you'd want to do with the typical channel So again because this is testing I always do this. I don't I've never produced Made for kids content, I don't have any intention of doing so Therefore I would turn that off so you don't get those annoying prompts every time you upload a video is this for kids And it's not and the second thing I was going to recommend is display the number of people now I actually have this hidden on my main channel and that's just because I sort of don't like the idea of Everybody being able to see when you know, I picked up a subscriber. I lost a subscriber Yeah, it's just a bit of pressure that I feel like I can live without Especially while I'm in the sort of earlier phases of growth for my YouTube channel and future eligibility Let me just show you that also where you can check that out and that is That is this little screen here So you can see features that require phone verification custom thumbnails live streams and videos over 15 minutes now on my Actual YouTube channel the one you're watching this video on right now. I've gone through the phone verification process Therefore I can do live streaming I can do videos longer than 15 minutes, etc. But this is considered a new entity Therefore I am not able to do that and I'm gonna need to just after I record this I'm going to need to go through that process from scratch Can it create problems having the same phone number tied to multiple brand account for verification purposes? I have no idea about that question. It's possible And it's possible. It's possible that it doesn't so that wasn't very helpful Let me just show you one final thing and that's just you know, there's either is a way to test How well all this is working for you? And that is basically to just sort of run a search on yourself through YouTube from a guest browsing Windows. So go into incognito mode on Google Chrome or some other web browser and Then you can go to YouTube and just search for yourself So I searched here for Daniel Rosell It's funny because it actually includes in the count. I definitely do not at 426 Videos and the reason there's so many videos here is because Sort of this before I separated out this process. This was My process I would put these testing videos up into my main YouTube account therefore, it's totaling everything for that number, but You know do a search for yourself and just see if Anything you don't want to do that you don't want to be showing up on YouTube And this is as a regular person would search for it is not showing is showing up So if you can click on to filters and click on to channel And you can see that perhaps there's a couple of other other Channels you've set up and I don't see I don't see it. I also see that my subscriber number is hidden Which is good. That's the way I wanted to set it up and I'm just searching for staging Which is one of the channels that I set up and there's a couple of videos there and you can see that if you don't publicize your channel Don't publicize your videos. It doesn't look to your average YouTube Browser as if this exists. There's no there's nothing showing up here There's just videos showing up from my main YouTube account that I guess I've used the word staging in or staging is in the Automated transcript therefore they're showing up in search results, but for all intents and purposes That channel is not visible Not that it's going to show up at any chance when I just created it, but Testing there's no there's no evidence of it. There's just this video. I did a couple of weeks ago on a Delta flight where he's testing out microphones and therefore that's keyword matching for Testing, but the channel itself is effectively hidden So that's how you can set up a couple of additional channels on your YouTube whether you want just one For the purposes of testing whether you want one another one for staging and one for testing whatever the case may be I do think that if you are Working in a creative workflow with a couple of other people on a YouTube channel such as you're working with a Marketing agency you're working with a brand manager or something of that nature I think having one or two extra channels that you know the upload default setting is private It's not going to get it's not going to slip out to your public channel, which might have a ton of subscribers I think that's something quite quite valuable to do and I found it very helpful so far So thank you guys for watching this video. 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