YouTube Channel Bar Templates
A channel bar is the strip that carries your name, your handle and your mark along the lower edge of the frame. It is the graphic your viewers see more often than any other, because it goes on every video you publish.
The job is recognition rather than persuasion. A viewer who has seen the same bar slide in across a dozen videos knows whose video they are watching before the title card arrives, and that is worth more than any single call to action. It is also why a channel bar should be the one graphic you take the time to make properly yours — the colours, the typeface and the shape of the plate are doing brand work every time they appear.
Most bars in this shelf are built as a plate with a play mark, a channel name, a handle and a subscribe button. Each of those is a separate layer, so you can drop the button on the ones where you do not want to ask for anything, stretch the plate for a longer name, or recolour the whole thing to match your thumbnails without touching the animation.
Materials vary across the shelf: brushed metal, frosted glass over a gradient, matte ceramic, dark bronze with a glow behind the mark, and three where the channel name is extruded geometry rather than painted text. They are all editable in the same editor and export to the same transparent formats.
Every template here is free to open, free to change and free to watch back, with no account needed to browse. Exporting the finished file costs $5 once for that project, or a plan covers every export.
All 55 Channel Bar templates
- Classic Bar TopThe white pill high in the frame, above the subtitle band and clear of the controls.
- Classic Bar HandleDark bar with the handle leading and the channel name under it.
- Classic Bar TaglineThree lines: the name, what the channel is about, and the count.
- Classic Bar CountThe subscriber number climbing as the button is pressed.
- Classic Bar VerifiedThe tick beside the name, the count and the button in one tight row.
- Classic Bar GhostOutlined rather than filled, for footage too bright to take a white plate.
- Classic StackThe same parts stood upright at the edge, leaving the width of the frame alone.
- Classic Corner TagAvatar, handle and a live dot, small enough to sit through a whole video.
- Channel Bar ClassicWhite pill bar with avatar, thumbs and a red subscribe.
- Creator Pill LightLight pill with creator name, subscribe and bell.
- Wide Channel BannerWide white banner with verified channel and CTA.
- Creator Bar NightThe full creator segment on a dark plate, for footage too bright to take white.
- Creator Bar CountThe subscriber number climbing where the slogan usually sits.
- Creator Bar VerifiedA verified tick beside the name and the handle under it.
- Creator Bar HeartA heart and its count in place of the thumbs, for channels that ask that way.
- Creator Bar CommentA comment mark, and the ask spelled out under the channel name.
- Creator Bar Bell ButtonThe bell as its own round button beside subscribe instead of folded inside it.
- Creator Bar DuoTwo plates with a gap: the channel on one, what to do about it on the other.
- Creator Bar RatingFive stars instead of thumbs, for reviews and anything scored.
- Creator Bar FacelessA play mark where the avatar goes, for a channel that never shows a face.
- Creator Bar RowLike, comment, share and bell in a row of pads, with subscribe at the end.
- Creator Bar OutlineDrawn in outline on nothing, for footage no solid plate would survive.
- Creator Bar SubscribedThe state after the press: subscribed, bell on, nothing left to ask for.
- Creator Bar EpisodeAn episode chip under the name, for anything that runs as a series.
- Creator Bar ShortAvatar, name, subscribe. The same segment with everything optional taken out.
- Creator Bar TallName and slogan over a row of actions, on a deep plate for a narrow frame.
- CtaYou Subscribe CTAEditable animated channel bar from the CtaYou subscribe CTA.
- Channel Row MinimalChannel name, count and subscribe — no avatar.
- Logo Bar CompactCompact bar with a centred logo mark.
- Titanium BarBrushed metal with a cool sheen and a machined button.
- Ember BarDark bronze with a warm glow behind the mark.
- Porcelain BarWarm matte ceramic, soft shadow, ink lettering.
- Machined BarMilled titanium with a real sheen band and a lit top edge.
- Anodised BarAnodised indigo, hard rim light, machined key.
- Billet BarThe plate itself is milled steel, lit and turning, not a painted gradient.
- Gold Relief BarChannel name extruded in polished gold, swaying to catch the light.
- Chrome Relief BarMirror-chrome lettering over a cool graphite plate.
- Obsidian BarDeep black glass with a lensed rim and a red mark.
- Aurora BarFrosted pane over a violet-to-teal gradient edge.
- Milk Glass BarWarm frosted pane that takes its colour from the shot.
- Liquid Glass BarNo fill at all — the shot itself, magnified and bent through the glass.
- Cast Glass BarThicker glass: the shot compresses into the rim instead of merely bending at it.
- Animate liquid glassFlowing glass, luminous edges and a subscribe press in 4K at 60fps.
- Neon Glass ReliefClear glass letters lit from both sides by magenta and cyan.
- Glass Bar RedFrosted channel bar with a red keyframe mark
- Glass Bar VioletFrosted channel bar with violet mark
- Glass Bar PinkFrosted channel bar with hot-pink mark
- Glass Bar BlueFrosted channel bar with electric-blue mark
- Glass Bar GreenFrosted channel bar with fresh-green mark
- Glass Bar AmberFrosted channel bar with warm amber mark
- Glass Bar MonoDark frosted bar with monochrome mark
- Glass Bar LightBright frosted bar for dark footage
- Glass Card RedSquared frosted card variant, red mark
- Glass Card VioletSquared frosted card variant, violet
- Optic Glass BarClear, not frosted: the shot swells through the middle and wraps the rounded ends.
Using channel bar graphics
- Where should a channel bar sit in the frame?
- Along the bottom, but not against the very edge. YouTube draws the progress bar and the player controls over the lowest part of the picture whenever a viewer moves the mouse or taps the screen, so a bar pinned flush to the bottom is the one that gets covered. Leaving a margin below it keeps it readable in both states.
- How long should it stay on screen?
- Four to six seconds is enough to be read and not long enough to be in the way. The templates here run six seconds by default, with the plate animating in, holding, and leaving — you can shorten the hold in the editor without redoing the entrance.
- What size should I export?
- 1920×1080 with a transparent background if you edit in 1080p, and the same graphic scales cleanly to 4K because everything is drawn rather than photographed. Export with alpha so the bar sits over your footage instead of on a black rectangle.
- Do I need After Effects to edit one?
- No. A channel bar is a set of layers here — the plate, your name, your handle, the mark — and you change them in the browser. The file that comes out is a transparent WebM or MOV, which drops onto a track in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro or CapCut like any other clip.
Next
- Make it yoursChange the words, the colours and the timing without breaking the animation that was built for the shape.
- Export it with transparencyWhich format your editor actually reads, and why a black rectangle behind your graphic means the wrong one was chosen.
- Keep it out of the controlsYouTube draws its progress bar and controls over the bottom of the picture. A bar pinned flush to the edge is the one that gets covered.
- What exporting costsOpening this template, changing it and watching it back are free. Getting the finished file out is $5 once for this project, or a plan if you make them often.