Launch Your YouTube Channel in 30 Days
Channel setup, first videos, editing, thumbnails - the full launch sprint.
Free to watch. Starting adds a personal copy to My Learning with progress tracking and a curated-path certificate on completion.
About this path
A focused launch sprint from four courses, arranged as four weeks: create the channel and publish your first video, get strategy in place before chasing volume, work the views-and-subscribers playbook against the analytics that actually decide reach, edit and ship in CapCut, and design thumbnails grounded in visual hierarchy. Ship in 30 days, not someday.
What you'll learn
- Set up a channel and publish your first videos
- Apply the growth tactics that reach 1,000 subscribers
- Edit watchable videos in CapCut
- Design thumbnails people actually click
- Script and title videos faster with ChatGPT
The path, module by module
Each step is lifted from a full course in our catalog, and where a course repeats itself we keep only the lessons that earn their place.
Module 1 · from YouTube Channel Launchpad
Week One: Channel and First Video
Create the channel, make the banner, shoot a full video on a phone, and add an end card. Everything you need before you own a camera.
4 lessons · 1h 0m · hand-picked from 8
How to Create a YouTube Channel for Beginners (Step-by-Step Tutorial) · How to Make a YouTube Channel Art Banner For FREE! (Without Photoshop) · How to Make YouTube Videos on Your Phone START to FINISH!
Module 2 · from YouTube Channel Launchpad
Week Two: Strategy Before Volume
Sean Cannell on starting from zero, the mistakes new creators make, and a content strategy. Picked over the hour-long motivational uploads next to them.
3 lessons · 32m · hand-picked from 8
How to Start and Grow Your YouTube Channel from Zero — 7 Tips · Advice for New YouTubers — 10 Mistakes New YouTubers Make · How to Boost YouTube Views with a Simple Content Strategy
Module 3 · from YouTube Growth Engine: First 1,000 Subscribers to Monetization
Week Three: Views and Subscribers
One good subscriber lesson and three on views and uploading properly. The source module runs eight videos that all promise 1,000 subscribers; you watch one.
4 lessons · 57m · hand-picked from 8
How To Get 1,000 Subscribers (Starting From Scratch) · The New Way to Get Views as a Small Channel · How to Upload Videos Properly to Get More YouTube Views
Module 4 · from YouTube Growth Engine: First 1,000 Subscribers to Monetization
Creator Analytics Toolkit
CTR and average view duration, a packaging checklist, and the real Partner Programme thresholds. The numbers behind every tip above.
3 lessons · 6m
CTR and AVD: The Two Numbers That Decide Reach · The Packaging Checklist · YouTube Partner Program: The Actual Thresholds
Module 5 · from CapCut Video Editing for Creators
Week Four: Edit and Ship
Overview, controls, timeline editing, captions, and render. Enough CapCut to publish weekly.
5 lessons · 38m · hand-picked from 8
02 - CapCut Overview · 05 - Basic Controls and Getting Started · 06 - Editing Clips in the Timeline
Module 6 · from Graphic Design Basics
Thumbnails That Earn the Click
Font psychology and visual hierarchy, which is the entire thumbnail brief in two lessons.
2 lessons · 13m · hand-picked from 4
The Psychology of Fonts | Fonts That Evoke Emotion · What Is Visual Hierarchy?