The List of non profit organizations that help people in the United States & the United Kingdom will grow with the help of YouTube.com

A YouTube Blog announcement begins thus:

Do you want to connect with your volunteers, supporters and donors but do not have the funds to launch an expensive outreach campaigns?

All non profit organizations always need support in any way, and now with the help of YouTube they will have access to multiple benefits with an excellent tool from the online video sharing king. Non profit organization will able to setup free brand channels on YouTube.

It’s well known that anyone can register at YouTube and have a free account, upload and share videos easily, that’s a fact, but if you are a non profit organization you can have more advantages using YouTube.

Perhaps you are wondering what is a YouTube brand channel? Let me explain the basics because a brand channel provides a number of features that are not available for standard user channels.

YouTube brand channel characteristics

• Branding is the word; the first difference allows you customize totally your channel to reinforce your organization brand identity on the net with your logo, slogan or corporate image.
• With a brand channel you create a destination page for your brand on YouTube, giving you the opportunity to have relationships with your consumers and visitors.
• You can have a channel page banner to display at the top of your brand channel. You can integrate a link for the banner or an image map that specifies where different areas of the banner should link.
• The branding box shows additional communication as well as an opportunity to embed links on your channel page. The box contains only text.
• You have a featured auto play video when users visit your channel page
• And a More from this User section on the watch page can be customized to attract additional traffic to your other brand channel content.

Benefits of having a non profit organization brand channel at YouTube

• Premium branding capabilities and increased uploading capacity for videos up 1 GB.
• Video rotation in the “Promoted Videos” areas throughout YouTube website
• The alternative to drive fundraising through a Google Checkout “Donate” button
• Listing on the special Non-profit channels and in the Non-profit videos pages.

Here are some good examples of YouTube non profit organization members.

In the United States
Rotary international
The Clinton foundation
The ONE Campaign

In the United Kindom
Missing People
Friends of the earth

Take a look at the 2 next images to see non profit brand channels at YouTube.com

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There are some requirements that your organization must comply, they change depending of your country, but you can find all the information at YouTube.com

What are you waiting for?, if you comply with the requirements, grab a brand channel at YouTube and begin to attract visitors and people that may contribute with your noble causes.

The next videos show you the way to have presence for your organization at YouTube, and how you can deliver your message to the world’s largest online video community.