Milestone

Channel Birthday

Celebrate a channel anniversary with three yearly subscriber bars, your avatar on top and a subscribe button for next year.

Duration
5s
Frame
1080 × 1080
Export
MP4, GIF, MOV (alpha)
Resolution
Up to 4K

About the Channel Birthday animation

Channel Birthday is for the post marking another year of your channel. Three bars grow year by year to your latest subscriber count, your Avatar lands on top, and a Button asks viewers to stay for the next one. Replace the Avatar, set Year 1 subscribers, Year 2 subscribers and Year 3 subscribers with their labels, then edit Title, Button and Button colour. Enter the counts in the same style, such as 100, 10K and 84K, so the bars read cleanly. The button is a graphic, so viewers still subscribe through the platform's own button.

Where it fits

  • On your channel's anniversary, as a feed post thanking viewers for the year.
  • At the start of an anniversary livestream, before you look back at the year.
  • In a year-in-review video, as the closing card before the end screen.

Filling it in

Use a clear, well-lit Avatar with your face centred, since it sits small above the bars. Write Button as a forward ask, like Stay for year five or Join us for year four.

Format and timing

Channel Birthday is built at 1080 × 1080, a square frame, which sits in a feed post without cropping and centres neatly over wider footage, and runs 5 seconds at 30 frames per second. It arrives in 3.6 seconds, holds for 0.5 and clears in 0.9, so cue it a beat before the moment it labels. Export it as an MP4 for a timeline or a feed, a GIF where video will not embed, or a MOV with an alpha channel to lay it over footage with nothing behind it. Renders go up to 4K on a paid plan. The free plan shows a watermarked preview.

What you can edit

  • Titletext
  • Avatarimage
  • Year 1 subscriberscounter
  • Year 1 labeltext
  • Year 2 subscriberscounter
  • Year 2 labeltext
  • Year 3 subscriberscounter
  • Year 3 labeltext
  • Buttontext
  • Button colourcolor

Questions about Channel Birthday

Can the subscriber counts show other numbers?

Yes. Year 1 subscribers, Year 2 subscribers and Year 3 subscribers are counters, so type your own figures and each one counts up to it.

Can I use my own photo?

Yes. There's one photo slot, Avatar, for your profile picture or channel logo.

What size and length is it?

It's 1080 x 1080, a 1:1 square with its own background, and runs for 5 seconds.

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