N is for Name #YouTube #AtoZChallenge

YouTube - What they Don't Tell You
N is for Name

"We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away." — Neil Gaiman

My AtoZ theme this year is my YouTube journey with my new fiction channel, and all that I have learned - plus some free fiction - scroll down to the embedded vid for that.

Every author out there knows, titles are important. Now the name of your channel is something like a title. We've taken all this trouble to decide what our channel is about, who our audience is, and now we need to convey that in our title.

Now there are some channels out there that are just the names of those who run them. If you're bringing a big audience with you, e.g. you're an author with fans already, this could be the way to go. In that case you're looking for people to find you, so your name is important, it's your brand.

However, what we also need to think about it YouTube in general. There are millions or people on YouTube who have probably never heard of us, and a person's name does not tell casual viewers what a channel is about. Like the title of a book, if the name of the channel does not grab them, they will not click.

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay 

While the description of a channel will help the algorithm serve it to those searching on a topic, we still have to convince them to choose us from the search results. Hence the name should reflect us and the content of the channel.

For example, I could have gone with

• Natasha Duncan-Drake

My name is unique – type it in at google and up I pop. Thank you hyphenating when I got married. However, it says nothing about the content of my channel.

My channel is all about short fiction, so I wrote down all the words I could think of that mean fiction:

• Fiction
• Stories
• Story time
• Tales
• Chronicles
• Novelette etc

Tales leapt out at me, because I've never met an author that didn't appreciate alliteration, and so Tasha's Tales seemed like a good idea.

Then I searched YouTube. And lo and behold, someone was already using that one.

So, I tweaked it, took inspiration from Drawing with Jazza (the previous name for the wonderful Jazza's channel) and came up with Tales With Tasha.

I am sure many of you are far more creative than me, but you can see the process.

Look around at other channels in your niche too, see what works for them, but do remember, some of the older channels were working with different parameters when they were named.

If you were starting a YouTube Channel, what would you call it? or What did you call your channel and why?

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About the AtoZ Challenge

The A to Z Challenge happens every April. Bloggers from all over the world come together to post every day in April, apart from Sundays, inspired by the letters of the alpha bet. A = April 1st etc. Some of us have themes, some of us don't. Click the image below for more info and links to other participants.

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Check Out My Fiction YouTube Channel

Tales with Tasha

Each week we have a theme and so there will be something for all tastes.

• 🎤Micro stories as YouTube Shorts Monday - Thursday - for fun quick viewing
• 🕮A longer story every Friday - for story time, over coffee or before going to bed

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