A YouTube Studio mockup template, field by field

First, the line you don’t cross

A mockup of a creator dashboard is ordinary creative work: a frame in an explainer about how analytics work, a prop on a film set, a concept in a design portfolio, a beat in a skit. The same screen becomes a fabricated record the moment it’s shown to someone as a real channel’s numbers — to a sponsor or a brand, to someone buying the channel, or to the students of a course about making money on YouTube. That’s prohibited whichever tool drew it. This guide is about the first kind of work, and our acceptable use policy covers the second.

What the template is

Studio is a phone-sized creator analytics app: an original design drawn in the style of YouTube Studio, with the wordmark “Studio” at the top and no YouTube name, logo or play-button mark anywhere on it. A five-tab bar runs along the bottom — Dashboard, Content, Analytics, Community and Earn — and every tab opens a screen of its own. Four more sit one tap further in, each with a back arrow where the header was: the full Videos and Shorts lists, every comment, and Payment activity.

The dashboard leads with the channel rather than the money: a round avatar with your initials, the channel name, and the total subscriber count printed in full — 512,483 by default — over the words Total subscribers. Under that come Channel analytics with the period beneath it; four tiles, for Views, Watch time (hours), Subscribers and Estimated revenue, each with a small badge; and Latest published content, a list of up to six uploads. There’s no chart on it, which is how the real app lays out its dashboard too.

Analytics is where the charts live. Under a row of section names — Trends, Overview, Content, Audience, Revenue, with Overview underlined — the four metrics sit as a row of cards, each slightly narrower than the screen so the next one shows at the right edge. Every card has its figure, its badge, a line saying how it compares with usual, and a daily chart. Beneath them are page dots, a Realtime panel for the last 48 hours, and a card reading Find out how to grow your audience.

Content splits the uploads much the way the real tab does. Under four filter chips — Scheduled, Type, Views and Visibility — videos run in a row of wide cards and Shorts in a row of tall ones, each card with a thumbnail, the title, a ⋮ mark, and its views and likes; videos carry their length on the thumbnail. View all beside either row opens the whole list: videos one to a row, marked Public and with their comment counts, and Shorts in a grid of two columns.

Community opens on Comments: a card with the latest upload’s title and thumbnail, and the first two comments under it. Once there are more than two, View all beside the Comments heading opens the rest. Each comment can be liked, disliked, hearted and answered in the app itself. Below the card, Community spotlight picks out up to five of the commenters.

Earn is the money screen: You’re in the Partner Program, a card saying a payment is headed your way, this month’s earnings against the payment minimum, a button for Payment activity, and What you’re using — Watch page ads, Shorts feed ads and Memberships. Like everything else in the app it is typed, not earned, and the line at the top of this guide applies to it more than to any other screen.

The fields, group by group

Below the app’s own name and icon, the editor lays the template’s fields out in seven groups. Here is what each one drives, with its default, so you can find the field behind any figure without hunting.

Header

Channel (up to 24 characters, “Your Channel”), Avatar initials (two characters, “YC”) and Period, which offers the last 7, 28, 90 or 365 days and starts on Last 28 days. The period prints under Channel analytics, and it also sizes the Realtime panel on Analytics, which always shows two days’ share of the period’s total.

Channel analytics

Total subscribers is the headline. Views, Watch time (hours), New subscribers and Estimated revenue fill the four tiles, and Currency switches between US dollars, euros, pounds and Indonesian rupiah. The tiles shorten counts — 4,296,000 views prints as 4.3M, 284,500 hours as 284.5K and 18,400 new subscribers as +18.4K — while revenue prints in full, with cents: $38,420.75.

Performance vs usual

This genre doesn’t grade a month against the one before; it grades it against what’s usual for the channel. Four selects — Views, Watch time, Subscribers and Estimated revenue — each take More than usual, Same as usual or Less than usual, and set that tile’s badge: green with an up arrow, green with a tick, or grey with a down arrow. None of the badges is red; a quiet month reads as information, not an alarm. The defaults are more, more, same and less.

Charted metric picks which card the Analytics row starts on (Views by default), and Gap vs usual says how far that metric sits from usual, in its own units: 1,340,000 prints “1.3M more than usual” on the Views card. You type only that one gap. The other cards are kept in the same proportion, so Watch time reads 88.7K more than usual and Estimated revenue $11,984.13 less.

Chart

Views trend is twelve bars that set the shape of every card’s chart and the Realtime bars. Drag them on a computer, or use trend up and randomize under them. Chart starts and Chart ends label the first and last day under each card’s chart (24 Aug and 20 Sep). Accent colours the chart line, the realtime bars, the active tab and the channel’s avatar, including the small one beside a reply or a heart — #8b5cf6, a violet — and Background sets the screen behind everything, #0b0b0d. Keep the background dark: the app’s type is white.

Latest published

Ranked against last (10) is how many recent uploads each video is ranked among. The list under it holds up to six rows. Each has a Title; a Type, Video or Short, which decides the row it sits in on the Content tab; a Length for a video (“6:48”), printed on its thumbnail; Measured over (“First 24 hours”, “First 7 days”); Views, Likes, Comments, Estimated revenue, Rank by views and Average percentage viewed; a Thumbnail colour; and an optional Thumbnail image. The defaults are three videos and a Short. The first row counts as the latest upload, so it’s the one the Community tab shows comments for. Add rows with + add row and take them out with remove.

Community

Comments on your latest upload holds up to eight comments and starts with four. Each has a Handle, the Comment itself (up to 220 characters), Posted (“14 minutes ago”), Likes, Replies — printed under the comment as View all 3 replies — Hearted by you, and Channel member, which puts a small green badge beside the handle. A handle typed without its @ gets one, and loses any spaces. The picture beside it is the handle’s first letter on a colour that handle always gets.

Community spotlight has no fields of its own. It takes up to five commenters from the list, most-liked first, and names each after the handle with a capital — @theothernoor becomes Theothernoor — so a handle that reads as a name makes a better card. The first card’s count reads 100+, and the others get a fixed number each: 47, 85 and 57 for the other three defaults.

Earn

Payment on its way (41,286.40) and Payment expected (“Sep 21–25”) fill the card at the top of Earn, which prints $41,286.40 minus taxes. This month (“September”) and Earnings this month (29,874.12) fill the line under it. Past payments holds up to twelve rows of Paid on and Amount for the Payment activity list, and starts with four, Aug 22, 2026 back to May 22, 2026.

None of it is worked out from the dashboard. Estimated revenue covers a rolling period and a payment covers one closed month, so you type both and keep them in the same range: the defaults put $41,286.40 on its way against $38,420.75 of estimated revenue over the last 28 days. The payment minimum isn’t a field. It follows Currency — $100, €70, £60 or Rp1,300,000, the thresholds at which AdSense pays out — and the bar under this month’s earnings fills toward it. So if you switch to rupiah, retype these amounts too, or the defaults read Rp29,874.12 over a bar 2.3% full.

Make the channel agree with itself

A mockup tends to be studied rather than glimpsed — a paused frame in an explainer, a page in a portfolio — so the relationships between figures matter more than any one of them. Four are worth checking first:

Minutes per view = Watch time (hours) × 60 ÷ Views
New subscribers per 1,000 views = New subscribers ÷ Views × 1,000
Growth in the period = New subscribers ÷ Total subscribers
A video’s average view = Length × Average percentage viewed

The defaults come to just under four minutes a view (3.97), about four new subscribers for every thousand views (4.28), and growth of 3.6% in 28 days. Each of those describes a kind of channel. Four minutes a view suits videos of five to ten minutes; a Shorts channel would usually average under a minute, and a channel of hour-long podcasts far more. And 3.6% a month is a healthy, established channel. One that adds a third of its size in 28 days has had something go viral, and then the chart, the badges and the uploads should all be telling that story too.

The fourth is easy to miss, because Length only shows on the Content tab and the percentages only on the dashboard. The defaults pass it. Their three videos run 6:48, 5:12 and 7:36, and at the percentages beside them average 4:14, 2:51 and 3:09 a view. Across their 3.7M views that’s about 222,000 hours of watching, inside the 284.5K the whole channel reports. Lengthen the videos without lowering the percentages and that total soon outgrows the channel’s.

Revenue has its own check against views, and the Earn figures against revenue. The comments have one too: they sit under the first upload, so they should fit it. The default that mentions 3:12 falls inside the 6:48 video, and the one asking what happened after day 30 sits under I tried this for 30 days.

The rows under the tiles

Each upload shows its thumbnail — the image you uploaded, or a block of its Thumbnail colour if there isn’t one — with the title and its measurement window beside it. Under that runs a line with the estimated revenue in green beside a small dollar mark, then the views, likes and comments, and a chevron. The first row starts open, showing Ranking by views (“1 of 10”) with an arrow beside it, then Views and Average percentage viewed, each with a badge. The chevrons open and close rows in the editor’s preview as well as in the installed app.

You don’t choose those two badges. They’re worked out:

• Views comes from the rank. In the top third of Ranked against last it reads more than usual, in the middle third the same, and below that less. Against the default 10, ranks 1 and 3 read more, 6 reads same and 9 reads less.
• Average percentage viewed reads more than usual at 55% or above, the same from 40%, and less below that. The defaults — 62.2%, 54.8%, 41.5% and 33.7% — give one more, two the same and one less.

That’s why the defaults vary down the list, and yours should too: a column of identical verdicts is the quickest way for a screen to look generated. Three more things to watch. A row added with + add row arrives ranked 1, so give it a rank of its own; any rank above Ranked against last shows as last place. Keep Measured over in step with each video’s age — the defaults run from First 24 hours on the two newest uploads through First 48 hours to First 7 days on the oldest. And if the uploads went live inside the period, their views are part of its total: the four defaults add up to 4.12M views and $32,408, under the channel’s 4.3M and $38,420.75.

Thumbnails

With no image uploaded, the Content tab and the lists behind it draw each thumbnail as a title card: the whole title in heavy white capitals, up to three lines, over the upload’s Thumbnail colour — I TRIED THIS FOR 30 DAYS on red, for the first default. The small thumbnails on the dashboard and on the Community card show the colour alone.

Upload an image and it replaces the card on every screen, the dashboard included. The editor crops it to 16:9 around its centre and stores it 480 pixels wide, as a JPEG. A Short’s card is tall, though, so it shows only the middle of that image, about a third of its width: keep a Short’s subject in the centre.

Use thumbnails from your own videos only. Someone else’s thumbnail is their artwork, and on a channel screen it passes their video off as yours.

A still for the page, an app for the camera

For a slide, a storyboard or a portfolio page, use Export PNG (3x), under the publish button in the editor. It downloads the screen the preview is showing — without the phone frame around it — as studio-mockup.png, at three times its size: 960 by 2,079 pixels. Unless your account is Pro, the SIMULATED · POZER.COM mark is in it, exactly where the preview shows it: as fine print under the subscriber count on the dashboard, under the first card’s chart on Analytics, under the filter chips on Content, under the header on each list, between the Comments card and the spotlight on Community, and under the payment card on Earn and on Payment activity. A Pro export is clean, like the pictures in this guide. The preview responds to taps, so open a row, another tab or a list behind View all there first — or like and answer a comment — and the export captures that instead.

For anything filmed, publish it with Create home-screen app (the first time, it asks for your email: accounts are free), then open the link on the phone: Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen on iPhone, Chrome → Install app on Android. It opens fullscreen and answers to a thumb. The template itself is on the YouTube Studio mockup page.