YouTube Certified

I’m super excited to announce that I’ve just been YouTube Certified. So what is YouTube Certified program and what does it mean to you as a client. The benefit of being YouTube Certified is that I can demonstrate job skill and recognition of a high-value industry-standard credential and recognised by YouTube as a certified professional. I’m now one of the very few professionals to have both the badges for Google Partner as well as YouTube Certification.

To get certified, the coursework needs to be studied, which usually takes around 14 – 16 hours and also have a complete knowledge & workaround of the YouTube interface. The exam is 2 hrs long and you need a minimum of 75% to pass it. I was thrilled to get 98% and gutted that I missed 100% just by a whisker!

The course includes topics such as content ownership, asset monetization, channel growth & content strategy. Other topics include:

• Evolving marketing landscape
• Defining a video content strategy
• Creative treatments for video content
• Optimising video distribution
• Working with creators
• Platform overview
• Channel Assesment
• Channel Revenue
• Asset monetisation for revenue
• Revenue analysis and reporting
• Copyright on YouTube
• Business operations with CMS
• Rights enforcement with Content ID

So as you can see, this certification is extremely comprehensive and gives me the know-how & expertise in every aspect of YouTube.

YouTube Certified Programme Overview

The YouTube Certified programme is dedicated to educating top enterprise partners, brands, agencies and professional creators. The goal is to provide the latest best practices and industry-level knowledge to help individuals and companies succeed on YouTube.

Cisco predicts that by end of 2018, almost 80% of internet traffic will be video. Video is going to play an increasing roll in the marketing mix for every kind & size of business. To get started with video marketing, get in touch and see how I can help.

Written by Uzair Kharawala

Founder of SF Digital Studios, a Google Premier Partner agency. Uzair has been helping businesses grow with Google Ads since 2002 and teaches it every week on YouTube.