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Inside YouTube – How to start a channel on Mac and iPhone and keep it going

As an Apple user, you have everything you need to start a YouTube channel on your iPhone or Mac right now. Here’s what you need to know and what you need to avoid.

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You’ll want more, but you can make whole YouTube channels just with your iPhone

YouTube lets any adult upload videos, so you just need an internet connection, a free Google account, and a video to upload. That could seriously be it, and since you have an iPhone, an iPad, or a Mac, you could be making a YouTube channel as easily as making an audio podcast.

But in practice, even though you probably have all of the equipment you need, and certainly all of the software, and you are easily capable of every part of the job, there is more. More that’s technical, more that’s editorial, and more that’s simply about organizing yourself and your channel.

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