Verify your YouTube account to unlock custom thumbnails, monetization, and longer uploads. Put your company spokesperson on camera for a few seconds so Google's facial-recognition algorithm can identify them. Link your channel to your website through the Features tab.
So this is a YouTube video on shooting YouTube videos. A couple of recommendations when making your YouTube video: make sure that you have whoever the spokesperson is for your company in the video for a couple of seconds. Google uses facial recognition technology, so having your spokesperson appear will also get you a little benefit with Google. Another benefit that you can take advantage of in YouTube is links within the video to your website, and in order to enable those, you're going to have to verify your YouTube account. So I recommend to all YouTube users, go to Features in your settings, verify your account, and then enable custom thumbnails, enable monetization to become a partner in YouTube, and at that point you'll be able to do enhancements, upload longer videos, all types of special features within YouTube, including linking to associated websites and directly associating your YouTube channel with a brand. And this is a tip that most people don't realize. After you've verified, go back to your YouTube channel to the features section, and you'll see below features there's an associated tab, and that's the associated website, the website that that channel is associated associated with. So if you have not associated your YouTube channel with your website, make sure you verify your YouTube channel and associate it.
