296: How To Add A Brand Watermark to your YouTube Channel

Place a watermark on all of the videos on your YouTube Channel. When viewers hover over the graphic a Subscribe button appears.

How To Add a Branded Watermark to Your YouTube Channel

How To Add a Brand Watermark to all videos on your YouTube Channel

This tutorial will show you how to place your logo or brand element watermark in the bottom-left corner (bottom-right if watching video) of your YouTube videos. When viewers hover their cursor over the watermark a ‘Subscribe’ with channel name appears. Viewers can click the button to subscribe to your YouTube Channel. 👍

Step 1: Create the watermark graphic file (save as .png)
Step 2: Upload the watermark to your YouTube Channel

(Video tutorial at the bottom if you want to skip the article and watch instead)

Hover cursor over the watermark. Click Subscribe. ✅

Note: The watermark is visible on YouTube desktop. Watermark does not appear on the mobile YouTube app. When viewer hovers cursor over watermark, a Subscribe button appears with channel name. Click button to subscribe to channel

Step 1: How To Make a Watermark Graphic

Design Tip: Keep your watermark simple. It will be very small and you do not want it to distract viewers.

1. Use Photoshop, Canva or any graphic editor
2. Aspect Ratio: 1:1 (Square)
3. 150 x 150 pixels minimum size (72, 96, 150 ppi is fine)
4. File Size: Under 1MB
5. File Type: Save as .png
6. Background: Transparent

New Photoshop Document (150px X 150px)…Transparent Background

For my watermark, I used Photoshop and created a document at 150 x 150 pixels (150ppi) with a transparent background. I added a logo mark from my Adobe Creative Cloud library. Once the logo was centered on canvas, I went to File>Export As>Format (.png, transparent)>Export All