When you’re in the market to hire a Youtube banner designer, you want to hire the best designer for your channel. Your channel’s banner is the first thing everybody looking at your page sees, so if they see something that’s less than professional—or nothing at all—you’re missing out on a ton of likes, comments and subscribes.
Up your channel’s popularity with an amazing, perfect-for-your-brand Youtube banner created by a professional who’s got the chops to do just that. We’ve made it super easy for you to find that designer by curating a list of the top 10 freelance Youtube banner designers on 99designs.
How to get the best YouTube banner design
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Most people are familiar with the concept of hiring a freelance designer. You can find the perfect designer for your banner design by browsing designer profiles and finding the right designer for your style, budget and brand. You’ll describe what you need and the designer will create your banner based on your requirements. This option is perfect if you already have an idea of what you’re looking for.
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While hiring a freelance Youtube banner designer directly is certainly an option, it’s not your only option. If you need help coming up with design ideas or you want to see a bunch of different designers’ work before committing to work with one, consider hosting a design contest.
Here’s how a design contest works: you write a brief describing what you’re looking for in your design, like your color palette and the type of content you publish on your channel. As a Youtuber, you might describe the demographic that watches your channel most and your overall aesthetic. If you’re an active host (ie, your channel features videos of you, rather than music compilations or clips from movies), talk about your personality. Who are you in your videos? How do your fans know you?
Once your brief’s in, designers from around the world submit concepts based on what you’ve provided. From these concepts, you choose a few finalists and give each one feedback on how they can revise the concepts to be closer to what you had in mind for your banner. Once the revised designs are in, you choose your favorite and work directly with that designer to take it from amazing to perfect. We recommend a design contest for anybody who wants help with ideation and feels it’s important to see a variety of design styles before committing to one.
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But if you already have a pretty clear vision of what you want your banner to look like, choosing one freelancer and working with them directly is a much faster way to complete your project.
The 10 best freelance YouTube banner designers to hire in 2020
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- 1
Facebook cover
Social media page
Banner ad
Postcard, flyer or print
Other business or advertising
Other design
Poster
Signage
Sticker
Logo design
PowerPoint template
Icon or button
T-shirt
Other web or app design
Clothing or apparel
Infographic
Illustration or graphics
Web page design
Stationery
Other packaging or label
Menu
Logo & business card
Brochure
- 3
Banner ad
Facebook cover
Social media page
Web page design
Other web or app design
Other design
Logo design
Other business or advertising
Landing page design
Web Page Design (Coded)
Poster
Postcard, flyer or print
App design
Other Graphic Design
Signage
PowerPoint template
Other packaging or label
Other book or magazine
Other art or illustration
Illustration or graphics
Icon or button
Email
Clothing or apparel
Brochure
Logo & brand identity pack
Brand guide
- 4
Banner ad
Social media page
Icon or button
Facebook cover
Landing page design
Other web or app design
Other design
Other book or magazine
App design
Web page design
Logo & social media pack
PowerPoint template
Poster
Postcard, flyer or print
Other business or advertising
Other art or illustration
Magazine cover
Logo design
WordPress theme design
- 7
Email
Web page design
Postcard, flyer or print
Banner ad
Landing page design
Other web or app design
Product packaging
Other business or advertising
Other design
Other packaging or label
WordPress theme design
Social media page
Product label
Logo design
Infographic
Illustration or graphics
Facebook cover
Signage
Poster
Other art or illustration
Card or invitation
Brochure
- 8
Other design
Icon or button
Logo design
Brand guide
Product label
Product packaging
Social media page
Landing page design
Other packaging or label
Illustration or graphics
Facebook cover
Web page design
Logo & business card
Stationery
Postcard, flyer or print
Other art or illustration
Button or icon
Brochure
Logo & social media pack
Logo & brand identity pack
Banner ad
Signage
Other clothing or merchandise
Email
Clothing or apparel
WordPress theme design
T-shirt
Sticker
PowerPoint template
Other business or advertising
Other book or magazine
App design
Merchandise
Logo & hosted website
Car, truck or van wrap
Cup or mug
Book cover
How did we choose these as the top YouTube banner designers?
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On a huge platform like Youtube, you need to have a great banner if you want to stand out. When we chose our top 10 Youtube banner designers, we looked at the following three criteria to guarantee that all our picks deliver top-notch banners:
1. Design quality
When a designer joins 99designs, an expert from our team goes through their portfolio to see how they conceive of ideas and apply them to designs, how they technically execute designs and how they apply objective design principles to their work. Based on the designer’s portfolio, the expert then assigns the designer to one of three levels:
- Top Level
- Mid Level
- Entry Level
Our top 10 picks are all top level designers. Any time you look at a designer’s portfolio on 99designs, you can see their level displayed right under their name. This way, you can easily see if you’re working with a design veteran or somebody who’s still up-and-coming.
2. YouTube banner design experience
Youtube banners aren’t the same as Facebook cover photos. Nor are they the same as banner ads or email headers or website headers, no matter how similar these kinds of graphics can all seem at first glance.
The ideal size for a Youtube banner is 2560 x 1440 pixels. In those 2560 x 1440 pixels, it’s gotta grab viewers’ attention by promising them they’ve come to the right channel for whatever content they’re looking for. If you’ve got a logo, it should be in your banner.
When we chose our top 10 Youtube banner designers, we chose 10 designers who specialize in designing awesome Youtube banners.
3. Professionalism
Even a top level Youtube banner designer with years and years of experience creating channel-boosting banners can’t make our cut if they aren’t also a consummate professional. We know how important it is that you work with a designer who communicates with you throughout the design process, delivers what you asked for by the deadlines you’ve set and generally makes commissioning a Youtube banner design a straightforward, stress-free process. When we made our picks, we took past customer experiences into account and chose only top-performing professional designers.
Are you ready to hire an amazingly talented freelance YouTube banner designer?
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Your Youtube banner should leave a great first impression with anyone who visits your Youtube channel. Show the world you’re a Youtube pro by working with a pro banner designer. If you don’t think one of our top 10 is the right match for you, search 99designs for the designer who is.
