5 YouTube One Channel Designs That Will Inspire You To Action

YouTube introduced the new One Channel layout a few years agon, but there's a chance you still haven't optimized your artwork yet!

“For optimal results on all devices we recommend uploading a single 2560 X 1440 px image” from YouTube Support

I know, it's just one more thing to add to your to do list, but keep in mind that your YouTube Channel Page acts as your Home Page on YouTube.

Now you wouldn't think of not putting up a banner on your blog's Home Page would you? The goal behind the One Channel concept is to make the design more responsive giving it a more attractive and uniform look across various sizes of computer monitors and mobile devices like SmartPhones, iPads and other Tablets. Take advantage of online editing tools like PicMonkey or Canva and get started with creating inspiring One Channel designs like these:

Inspiring One Channel Designs

Creating an attractive One Channel design might not be as difficult as you think. Here are a few creative ideas and awesome Here are a few designs to inspire you. Most of these examples are actual screenshots from my Samsung Galaxy Tablet 2.

Marques Brownlee aka MKBHD

If you want to keep up with the latest in SmartPhone and other Tech reviews you want to check out Marques Brownlee. He is the man! Well actually he is still a teenager but you would never know it by watching his videos. I could go on about how professional and well spoken Marques is but I really think you should check him out for your self because you know I always say the proof is in the pudding (in case you're new here, I probably say that way too much). But, let's face it, 1/2 a million subscribers can't be wrong. Take a look at the simple, clean lines of Marques's One Channel art and you'll see that it's truly elegant. At the same time, I bet you could imagine yourself making a “poor man's version” of this design in about 20 minutes!

[tweet_box design=”box_09″]Does Your YouTube Channel One Design Inspire People to Subscribe?[/tweet_box]

Chris Lang

My friend Chris Lang is one of the top experts on anything to do with Google. He provides “tips, tools, tricks and solid business marketing strategies”. His YouTube Design let's you know who's boss and I was actually inspired by this bold design when I created my Google+ Page banner. So in a way you can thank Chris for this post 🙂

Marie Forleo aka Marie TV

What can I say about Marie Forleo. How can you even look at her and not be inspired? That was a rhetorical statement people.

Marie = enthusiasm. And it shows in her One Channel design. A great head shot, a smart tag line and a couple of carefully chosen fonts and bam! You're done. YOU CAN DO THIS PEOPLE! Just go for it.

VidiSEO

Matt Ballek is the creative genius behind VidiSEO. No, this isn't a simple, throw it together in 20 minutes, One Channel banner yet it's very inspiring. You can see how Matt has been able to grow his subscriber base and his authority as a YouTube expert. I also want to mention that Matt has a cool feature on his site where you can submit a video with any question you have about optimizing your YouTube channel. Send in your question and if you get picked, your video question might end up being featured on his channel.

Ileane Smith aka Ms. Ileane Speaks

Last but not least, your's truly. You might be wondering why I featured my own channel here.

Well here's why. It's because technically I don't have a real One Channel design. I just re-purposed the banner art from my podcast. Doh!

That's right, I'm sure you have some piece of artwork in your graphics arsenal that you can re-purpose as a basis for your YouTube One Channel design. Think outside of the box my friends. Don't add this task to your to-do list, just get it done. Seriously.

Are You Inspired to Take Action on Your One Channel Design Yet?

I hope that you are starting to see the benefits and the importance of optimizing your One Channel design. In addition to the One Channel redesign, YouTube now displays Hover Cards next to each one of your videos. The YouTube Hover Cards work similar to Hover Cards on Google+, and it allows anyone watching one of your videos to see a quick preview of your channel design. Watch this video to see what I mean.

YouTube SEO Tips Hover Cards and VidIq Stats by Ileane Smith

What Are Your Favorite One Channel Designs

Let me know if you have any favorites in the comments below. I'm sure you know of some One Channel Designs that can inspire us all.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTS
Hey guys I got a couple quick tips for you on YouTube today
We now have Hover Cards so if someone's looking at one of your videos and they hover over your channel name they will see your YouTube banner and also your description that you have on your YouTube channel.

So if you don't have your YouTube channel banner art, now is the best time to go ahead and get that taken care of so that people will be attracted to your channel and want to subscribe.

The other tip I wanted to share with you is about your YouTube stats and also checking the stats of other videos and other channels that you watch. Well VidIQ – they have a Google Chrome Extension now make sure you install that extension and this is what you'll see.
Next to a video that you're watching you're going to see statistics such as how many subscribers they have, how many views, you know the Facebook likes…
All the stats but also something that's been hidden from us for awhile which is the YouTube tags.

So now this is the way to do your research on the SEO that you're doing on any of your videos. You can check out the tags of the popular videos that you're trying to compete with so go ahead and get that extension from vidIQ just go to vidIQ.com/vision. Okay that's it for today guys but make sure you subscribe so you can stay on top of all the YouTube tips.
I'll also have blogging tutorials and of course Google Chrome extensions! I'll talk to you soon.
Peace

Recommended Reading and Additional Resources:

Rocky

08/26/2013 at 7:00 AM

Hi Ileane, I wanted to know about this topic since many days and today I found you article on this topic which will be a great help. Thanks for sharing this informative article.

Ileane
08/26/2013 at 3:21 PM

You’re welcome Rocky. Thanks for visiting.
1. hiren
  08/31/2013 at 9:17 AM
  
  hi Ileane
  nice you tube channel list i am new blogger and i want to learn some seo for that reason i definitely subscribe to vidiseo. thanks for sharing.

Muhammad

08/26/2013 at 9:45 AM

In this age of stiff competition you can’t survive well without a YouTube channel of your brand because now simply writting words are not sufficient to make you stable in your niche; whatever other pro are doing you must follow and make your blog a good mix of posts, podcast, videos and infographics.

Akshat

08/26/2013 at 1:39 PM

Really nice designs designs for youtube..enjoyed the post..

Karmakar

08/26/2013 at 1:52 PM

Hi Ileane…

Thank you very much for the details… I will check them out as I am planning to start my YouTube journey from this week.. 🙂

As per your suggestion, I am posting my question here:

I am NOT able to understand, why you have 2 commenting facilities at your site… CommentLuv and Google Plus comment… What are the benefits ???…

From my point of view, I am getting confused about, which one to use ????.. 🙁

Regards,

Ileane
08/26/2013 at 3:28 PM

Hi Karmakar,

So nice of you to visit my blog. It seems like most of our chats take place over on Lisa Irby’s blog and I didn’t want to take away from the topic of her blog post.

I started using Google+ comments a few months ago and I’m not sure if you noticed but I’m no longer offering CommentLuv links here. I wrote about the decision in this post https://basicblogtips.com/wait-for-perfection.html

I keep the WordPress comments open because I realize that many bloggers aren’t on Google + yet (even though they should be).I hope that makes it easier for you to decide where to leave your comment. I think it’s just depends on what is most convenient for you at the moment.

Thanks again!

Harman

08/26/2013 at 2:24 PM

Great to see another piece of art from you Ileane. You truly said these channels will surely inspire ones knowledge. Thanks 🙂

KAPIL

08/27/2013 at 3:56 AM

hi Ileane today i visited first time on your blog and feeling very nice to to here.

now i visited on you tube to see this channels
THANKS & REGARDS

Zenelia

08/27/2013 at 3:59 AM

Hey Ileane…
Nice post….Right these days I am studying over video SEO that how impactfully we can viral a video and its very helpful and informative one to go through this post…

Thanks for sharing

Keep Posting

Riza

08/27/2013 at 6:26 AM

Great idea! I personally wouldn’t want to visit a page who has different designs on different platforms. I mean, there are probably exceptions to that rule of mine. But it can be annoying. Only with awesome video content will I look past the designs.

The choices given here are definitely inspiring. No doubt!

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Shalu Sharma

08/27/2013 at 7:10 AM

Great designs Ileane, certainly inspirational. I like that of Marie Forleo’s, looks good.

Neulabs

08/27/2013 at 7:53 AM

Hey Illeane, I’m a regular visitor of your site and all the time I visit find great post. All the posts are very informative and helpful too….. including this post. Thanks for sharing such nice articles with us.

Dharmendra Kumar

08/27/2013 at 7:59 AM

i love those channels…

Edson Hale

08/27/2013 at 9:20 AM

Vides with your blog are like sweet dish with your main cuisine you cannot enjoy your dinner party without a delicious supper. but the need is to put a purpose in your each video otherwise it will bring nothing if you simply record 5 minutes video and upload it just to show you offer videos as well

Reaz

08/28/2013 at 6:12 AM

Changing YouTube channel design is not so hard. But people are not looking at this part of channel. A eye catching and wonderful design will give more subscribers to every channel.

Overall, I really like all those designs on share with us in this post. Thanks.

Regards,
Mohammad Reaz

Gaurav

08/28/2013 at 9:21 AM

yes off-course you tube channels are really very important to promote a business or blog or any other website online. but to get a huge number of visitors from you tube we really need to upload quality and self made videos.
nice tips and thanks for sharing

Sohail

09/02/2013 at 3:49 AM

Wow amazing designs, but i think it’s a difficult task to make a youtube channel design.. i mean it’s something time consuming.

Sarmista Aun

09/06/2013 at 6:21 AM

Thanks for sharing the five YouTube One Channel Designs Ileane . The designs are really appealing and inspiring. I do agree with you, it is not so hard to create One channel designs but it is time consuming.

Dylann Andre

09/15/2013 at 8:50 AM

Hi Ileane,

I love your channel. And I like the way you repurposed it from your podcast. I might do the same as well.

Mohit Rajwani

09/28/2013 at 9:49 AM

Hey,
Thank you very much for the details… I will check them out as I am planning to start my YouTube journey from this week.. 🙂

zoyoyayep

02/04/2017 at 4:24 AM

I’ve also a youtube channel, but it’s not monetizing yet. Hope your advice will work. Thanks