How to create WeChat Channels?

With the development of the tech, we’re more prefer watching videos to reading text or images. That’s what the social media companies were realizing, and short-video must be the top trending thing in 2020. TikTok is the leading of the short-video and most successful. YouTube and Facebook didn’t realize the importance of the short-video until the Tiktok gets so popular. WeChat is trying to has its own short-video product. That is WeChat Channels, a new feature launched in July 2020. So WeChat Channels is where you can post or watch short-videos. Now let me show you how to create WeChat Channels.

What’s the benefit of WeChat Channels you will get?

• Promote products or services.

If you are promoting your products or services in China or Chinese Market, you need to know how to get traffics online. WeChat official and WeChat Channels will make it easier for you to do that. However, WeChat official is hard to get for foreigners, you will need to provide company certificate documents. So it’s not for individuals. As for individuals, WeChat Channels is a great option. Actually, users are more prefer watching videos (WeChat Channels) to reading text (WeChat official). And the sooner the better to open WeChat Channels and optimize it. As it was launched lately, it’s easier to get viewed.

• Get the latest News about China.

You might find that most News about China is totally twisted, And most of the things are not what you saw. Of course, there’re many things you never heard before. The good thing is the network will help you to know China or Chinese better.

• Learning Chinese

There’re more and more people who are learning Chinese, no matter what level you are at, just keep listening is good to understand and learn it faster. What’s more, learning online will let you get more native expressions.

• Chinese food tutorial.

• Chinese cultures.

China has a vast territory with rich natural resources.Which means the Chinese culture and history learning will never be ended. Even me, a native Chinese. What I like most is learning online, it helps me a lot.

• Watching WeChat Channels for fun.

You will get what you want to watch by following the topics and subscribing the posters. Just like Tiktok. Actually, WeChat Channels copied Tiktok. That’s the way of YouTube and Facebook doing now.

• And so on.

How to open WeChat Channels?

As I said, WeChat Channels is different from WeChat official. You don’t need to provide certificate documents as an individual. So you can create WeChat Channels so much easier than WeChat official.

1. Create a WeChat account.

If you don’t have a WeChat account, you should get one first. Here’s the tutorial about how to create WeChat account.

2. Tapping Discover.

3. Click on Channels.

If you can’t find Channels after tapping Discover. Please update the App to the latest. If still can’t find it, you might need to click on [Me]>[Settings]>[General]>[Manage Discover] and then Tap Channels to show it.

Now here it is the WeChat Channels.

The default video streaming showing is your WeChat friends liked. With that said, the videos showing first are your WeChat friends liked. And you can see which WeChat friends liked the video below.

4. Tapping the Avatar icon on the top-right corner.

5. Clicking on Post Activity.

After that, you will be required to upload Profile Photo, enter your Channel name, Gender, and select Region.

6. Check the Policy box and then click on Create.

WeChat Channel not showing?

Many readers tell me that WeChat Channel not showing. Then how to fix WeChat Channel missing error? Actually, some of you just need to let the WeChat Channel shows by going to “Me”>”Settings”>”General”>”Manage Discover” and then turn Channels on.

If Channel still disappears, then there’s a proven method that might help you to activate WeChat Channels. You just need to click some tag to activate it. A “#” tag with Some Chinese phrases will lead you to Channel. If you have a WeChat friend, then you can add #人民网 or something like that, you just need to click that then it will go to Channel directly. Or you can post WeChat Moments with the “#” tag.

You can chat to yourself on WeChat, if you don’t have any friends, or Add me, let me help you. However, If the ways I showed you not working, then it could WeChat Channels are not available in your country right now.

How to fix WeChat Channels missing

Tricks: You may try to use Chinese App stores to update WeChat and then, you might fix WeChat Channels missing. This trick is proven by my WeChat friend, Emma. Thanks for her updated info.

What’s Real-name authentication?

You might be required to proceed to Real-name authentication after clicking on Post Activity. If you didn’t active your WeChat Pay. The WeChat Channels will let you open your online store to make money, so it requires Real-name authentication. So if you want to post your own WeChat Channels posts or comments, liked videos then you need to finish Real-name authentication. If you don’t need those, just watch videos, then you can skip those steps.

Foreigners are able to activate WeChat Pay without China Bank since 2020. If you need to active WeChat Pay click the link.

How to download WeChat Channels video?

Sorry, you can’t download WeChat Channels video as WeChat doesn’t support it. But you can add the video to favorites so you can find it easily. Besides, you can share the video with your WeChat friends, WeChat group, or WeChat moments.

How to pause or adjust the playing process bar?

You can pause the video by tapping the video. Note: if you double-tap the video, it means you give a “like” to the video.

As for adjusting the playing process, you will see an orange line after you paused the video, and then you can hold the playing process line to where you want to start.

Why always show me the video I don’t interested in?

It happens to new users or users who never engage with the video. In this case, you should keep engaged with the video you are interested in. Like, comments, give likes, subscriptions, etc.

The system needs to know what kind of video you would like depending on your engagement.