 Is this it? Are we live? Hello! Welcome, it's Friday night here in the UK. I'm totally not prepared for this as you're about to see. This is a really unusual departure for me on two levels and I'm going to walk you through the two things that I'm doing for the first time live. It's what eight minutes to seven o'clock at night so I'm in the happy hut and I'm assuming that nobody is watching this but if you are then you'll know that my name is Neil Mossy Hello. I'm a development producer helping high achieving creators and performers just like you to get ideas out of your head and out onto here on YouTube and this video is going out live thanks to a trial that I'm trying out that they're not paying me they're not affiliated to me at all. I'm just trying out this software it's called Melan app and that's why there's this logo in the corner and I'm a bit freaked out because I thought I'd be able to stream this privately and record the stream and then upload it later but the free plan only allows you to go live so I wasn't quite expecting to be live so hello it's great to have you here and I'm so not used to this dashboard that I'm looking at that I don't even know if anyone is watching this I don't even know if it's live let's show on stream yes I've got a bohemian rhapsody effect going on there but this is what I'm looking at this is what I can see I can see on there that two people are watching and I know one of them is me so if you are the other person thank you you are the one person watching my live stream right now on a Friday night courage to you my friend so that's the first big thing that I'm doing so I'll tick that off using Melan app for the first time and show the screen I've done that the second thing I'm going to do is as you can see from the words along the bottom here right so this is the youtube creator academy and they have all these courses I counted them there are 46 courses why don't I just do every single course and do the course exam live at the end of every week to show what I've learned and also to get you to play along and see if you can take the course exam too and maybe we can compare scores I don't know I'm not encouraging any cheating so if you want to talk amongst yourselves that's great I'm going to try and do this course exam for real the course that we're doing today is the quick start guide to YouTube it's the first course I think it's one of the basic courses there are 21 basics courses it's the very first one so these are the 21 courses that I'm going to go through one at a time you can see I've started a few of them and I thought the only way I can see this through is to use you as an accountability partner I should have told some friends that I'm doing this it got to about four o'clock I thought why don't I just do it and see what happens these are the lessons that I've just done it only took me half an hour and if you're watching this on the recording I'll put a link to the youtube creator academy in the description but I'll also put a link to this actual course so you can follow along or maybe even go back and see if you get any wrong should we do the exam and I think if I get it wrong I think I've got to like wait a couple of months before I can take it again now I'm not looking at only because I can't but I'm not looking at my chat because I don't want to cheat but you can cheat in the chat if you want to so the first question in the quick start guide to YouTube is how can people discover your content on YouTube I'm not looking at the chat because I can't open the window so put in the chat what you think the answer is and I'll go through the chat afterwards and we'll see if anyone get any of these questions right so how can people discover your content on YouTube it's like a really terrible pub quiz isn't it you've got better things to do the multiple choice answers are youtube.com on their computer youtube app on their phone youtube app on their smart tv or all of the above I'm going to go for all of the above oh next what is a good question to ask yourself when defining your channel's mission how can I have an impact how can I make a ton of money sorry I've got mic read in my head um there was a game show in the 1970s called run around I'll put a link to that in the description how can I reach 100 000 subscribers or how can I produce a viral video answer now in the comments or live chat if you're my one viewer on the live stream on a friday night I think I'm going to go for how can I have an impact oh so we don't get the scores or answers to the end I promise I'll speed it up a bit so that we can get through these why should you pay attention to your channel name it needs to be different from your real name it helps to include trending keywords it will always appear in your video credits or it can live on your channel for years put your answer in the comments now what I'm going to go for it can live on your channel for years now I don't want to be that annoying person in the exam but I'm finding these a bit easy so it'd be a shock if we get any of these wrong before you publish a new video what's an important step add details to describe what your video is about pre-populate comments for early viewers to see embed the video URL across your social media last option is write down your number of subscribers so before you publish a new video what's an important step put your answer down now I'm going to go for because I'm reading them out I'm not actually taking them in I can't do more than one thing at a time see it could be embed the URL but I'm going to go for add details to describe what your video is about what's the basic definition of watch time this is question five and that was my chair by the way not me the hazards of live streaming what's the basic definition of watch time the number of people watching your channel right now the time of day that most viewers visit your channel the average time that someone spends on youtube or the amount of time that viewers watch your videos so put your answer now in the chat in the live chat if you're watching the live stream and put it in the comments if you're watching the recording afterwards I'm going to do this next week and we're going to really zip through these I'm going to go for no no be the amount of time that viewers watch your videos which action helps you build your community interact with fan comments like I'm not right now I'm so sorry but I can only open one window like every video that you watch that is always a good idea change your channel name or publish a new video every day I'm going to go with interact with fan comments are you getting many comments on your youtube channel leave a comment let me know we can sort something out and comment on each other's channel your channel branding should be simple or relevant to your channel or consistent or all of the above well trick a curveball there for the last option I'm going to go for all of the above and I can see I don't like by the way I don't like I've got the word melon in the corner of the screen there I've got the word melon over my bald head there that's not right why should you use consistent branding this is question 8 nearly there why should you use consistent branding because you want your channel to be discovered in search results because you paid someone to market your brand because you want viewers to instantly recognize your brand or because you want to provide a fun experience so why should you use consistent branding I'm going to go for because you want viewers to instantly recognize your brand how easy are you find I'm finding these quite easy do some bragging in the in the comments or the chat if these seem a bit too basic for you maybe they get harder through the year then build ourselves up what branding elements consists of a welcome video to potential fans the channel trailer the channel banner the channel card or the channel description I'm going to go for channel trailer Cindy finds a video on YouTube that seems inappropriate I've had that this week I just got a community guidelines warning for one of my thumbnails and I peeled it or if you're in the UK I appealed against it and the appeal was successful and then three hours later the YouTube automatically banned it again and I've got I've got a community guidelines strike I've got a video on that coming up very soon I bet it was Cindy flagging it anyway Cindy finds a video on YouTube that seems inappropriate what would you recommend her to do email the creator to express her outrage unsubscribe from the channel yeah that that would be a good idea Cindy flag the video for review or add the video to her playlist her evil playlist so which one would you go for are you going to go for Cindy's evil playlist or unsubscribe and go away don't come back I think it's going to be flag the video for reviews and that penultimate question I'm channeling my inner Derrick Beatty if you don't know who Derrick Beatty is google it after the quiz but I need more hair I think to pull off the Derrick Beatty that deserves a community guidelines strike doesn't it me talking about pulling yes so anyway you can't have another community guidelines strike please you've received a content ID claim what does this mean a copyright owner has identified content in your video that belongs to them another creator claims that you stole their idea for your video I don't think anyone's going to steal the idea for this and if they do they've got 46 of these to make you've received a content ID claim what does this mean you may have accidentally uploaded the same video twice or your video infringes intellectual property and you're probably in big trouble well again this has happened to me by accident this month we'll go for a copyright owner has identified content in your video that belongs to them next final question we've got this here we go what's a potential consequence of multiple copyright strikes your channel may be terminated your subscribe button will be disabled your channel banner will get a strike badge I'd like one of that maybe I should make one of my own like the the play button that I made the final option your videos may be age restricted put your answer in the chat or the comments now don't look at the person next to you what's a potential consequence of multiple copyright strikes I think that's going to be the big bad termination your your channel may be terminated let's see if we pass this course exam live on a Friday night live across the world quiz complete how do you do was that it I thought it would sell us how we did get my letter should we see letter of completion that's it great I thought we would get some kind of recap of the questions and answers so we did it we I don't know what the percentage is do you do okay leave a comment with your score I thought there would be some kind of fanfare or some kind of tension release at the end there but it is quite like an episode of mr and mrs I'm going to be here every week I'm hoping to do this around the same time source of six o'clock on a Friday night's GMT this is how pathetic I am I need validation from YouTube actually on YouTube so next week we'll do get discovered which is all about enhancing your channel search and discovery potential on YouTube thanks so much for joining me if you've joined us live us it's just me you probably hear the rain if you have joined us thanks so much for coming along the ride and if you're watching on the on the recording say hello in the comments so that we can see your channel thanks for joining us and if you're watching the recording right here is what YouTube thinks you should be watching next