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YouTube Hype: How This New Feature Can Help Small Channels Gain Exposure | TubeBuddy

For small YouTube channels, growth can feel like an uphill battle. With millions of videos being uploaded every day, standing out in such a saturated platform is incredibly challenging. Many creators struggle to break through the noise, even with high-quality content. Getting noticed often requires more than just creating great videos. it takes exposure, reach, and visibility. That’s where YouTube Hype feature, announced at Made on YouTube 2024, comes in. This feature is designed specifically to help emerging increase YouTube visibility. YouTube Hype allows viewers to actively boost videos they love, which in turn helps these videos reach a wider audience via the YouTube Hype leaderboard. Even if a channel has only a few hundred or thousand subscribers, YouTube Hype feature provides an opportunity for greater exposure. Let’s explore how this feature can make a significant difference in YouTube small channel growth. Table of Contents What is YouTube Hype? YouTube Hype is designed to give viewers a way to show their support for your content. For the first seven days after you upload a video, viewers can use a unique action called “hype.” Each viewer gets three hypes per week to distribute among their favorite emerging creators channels. Hyping a video… Continue reading YouTube Hype: How This New Feature Can Help Small Channels Gain Exposure | TubeBuddy

How to Monetize Evergreen YouTube Content: Bulk Edit + AsqMe

If you’re not monetizing your evergreen YouTube content, you’re missing out. Sure, a viral hit is great and can do amazing things for your channel but your evergreen videos will continue driving views over the long term. Because while you may have published that video a few years ago but to a new subscriber, it might as well be brand new. Case in point: look at the top 30 most watched videos on YouTube. You’ll notice that none of these videos were produced in this decade. The newest entry on the list is from June, 2018. In other words, success on YouTube means playing the long game. And let’s not forget that YouTube is a major search engine in its own right. If your older videos are well optimized, there’s a much better chance they’ll be discovered… and that’s important if you want to monetize evergreen YouTube content. In this post, we’ll talk through the importance of a monetized long tail content strategy, and we’ll introduce you to a tool called AsqMe (partner link) that offers another possible revenue stream by managing and monetizing audience questions. Tips to Monetize YouTube Evergreen Content Ad revenue from older videos on your channel… Continue reading How to Monetize Evergreen YouTube Content: Bulk Edit + AsqMe

Deep YouTube Channel Comparisons with TubeBuddy Channel Insights

They say comparison is the thief of joy but YouTube channel comparison is the best way for a creator to know how their content, their progress, and their strategy stacks up.. Whether you’re an aspiring or established content creator, an individual, or a brand looking to make an impact, you need to gather intel on, and learn from, other creators in your niche and beyond.  It’s helpful to know what other channels in your niche are doing: what are they posting? How often? When are they posting? It’s even more helpful to know how they’re doing: how quickly are they adding subscribers? How are their views trending? What content is performing best? That’s where the new Channel Insights tool comes in. Channel Insights is available to TubeBuddy users with a Pro or Legend license.  Now, before we jump into the new TubeBuddy Channel Insights tool, you’ll note that we haven’t said “competitors.” There’s always competition within a niche. Especially in the most competitive and the most profitable YouTube niches. But there’s plenty of success to go around. So while Channel Insights offers powerful YouTube competitor analysis, we prefer to think of this as the friendly competition that drives creators to… Continue reading Deep YouTube Channel Comparisons with TubeBuddy Channel Insights

YouTube Shorts Thumbnail Update: What You Need to Know

The YouTube Shorts thumbnail update finally brings some options for YouTube Shorts thumbnails, but it’s not exactly what creators were hoping for. While the new features allow for some customization, the long-awaited ability to upload fully custom thumbnails is still missing. Table of Contents Introduction to YouTube Shorts Thumbnail Options The recent updates to YouTube Shorts thumbnails have sparked interest among creators. While the features may seem limited (because they are), they offer a fresh perspective on thumbnail customization. This section will delve into the new options available and how they can be utilized effectively. YouTube Shorts Thumbnail Update: New Features Explained YouTube has introduced a few enhancements to the way creators can manage their Shorts thumbnails. The most significant change is the ability to select a frame from the video and add elements like text and emojis. Editing Thumbnails After Upload One of the most welcomed features is the ability to edit thumbnails post-upload. This flexibility allows creators to refine their visuals based on performance analytics or personal preference. How to Edit a YouTube Short Thumbnail Give us Custom YouTube Shorts Thumbnails Already These are good updates to YouTube Shorts thumbnails they’re not the solution many creators have been… Continue reading YouTube Shorts Thumbnail Update: What You Need to Know

Use This 3-Click YouTube Shorts Strategy to Grow Your Long Form Videos

If you do nothing else today, please use this simple YouTube Shorts strategy to grow your channel. It’ll literally take a minute and it works. As a small YouTube creator, you’ve probably been there: you spend hours crafting a long form video, perfecting the thumbnail, scripting, and editing—only for it to just kinda… sit there, not getting the views to justify the work, and not getting you any closer to your monetization goals.  Meanwhile, a short, fun clip you tossed together in 15 minutes seems to be racking up the views. It’s frustrating and can make us feel like we’re taking shots in the dark, cursing The Algorithm, never quite understanding what’s going on. There is a simple strategy that all creators can use to turn Shorts views into views of your long form content, which is always the goal. It only takes three clicks. It works for us, it works for many small and big creators on YouTube, it’ll work for you too. All you need to do is connect your Short(s) videos to your long form videos. If you’re already sold on the idea and you just want the instructions (what is this, a recipe blog? We don’t… Continue reading Use This 3-Click YouTube Shorts Strategy to Grow Your Long Form Videos

Avoid Copyright Music in YouTube Videos: “Erase Song” Has Your Back

As creators, we know that copyright music in YouTube videos can cause a whole host of problems. We don’t use copyright music as the sound bed for our videos unless we have clear permission. We know that “fair use” and copyright is a gray area at best. Because while a copyright claim is not necessarily a YouTube strike — a violation of the YouTube Partner Program rules — it can still lead to our videos being demonetized or worse. But what happens when you film a video for YouTube and forget to turn off the Spotify stream before you roll? What if you’re filming in a restaurant, or at the gym, or another public place where you can’t avoid capturing copyright music? And what if you already uploaded your video? What if you already got a copyright notice?  If you’ve ever uploaded a video to YouTube only to be hit with a copyright claim on the background music, you know the pain all too well. Those copyright restrictions can be a real buzz kill, preventing your video from earning any ad revenue and in some cases, even blocking it from being viewed in certain regions.  But fear not, YouTube has cooked… Continue reading Avoid Copyright Music in YouTube Videos: “Erase Song” Has Your Back

YouTube Tags: The Truth Creators Need to Know

YouTube tags are important. How important? Not very important at all. It’s important to have relevant YouTube tags but any time creators spend trying to come up with the perfect tags to trendjack or otherwise show up in search would be better spent on other stuff.  In other words, ignore any advice that suggests YouTube tags are an algorithm-beating silver bullet. Add YouTube tags to your videos. Use a YouTube tag generator if you want to. Copy tags from competitor videos and save a few pre-populated tag lists with your TubeBuddy Tag Management tools to make things easy but beyond that, creators shouldn’t spend much time thinking about YouTube tags. Let’s dive into what really matters for YouTube success and why you might want to rethink your tagging strategy. How to Think About YouTube Tags YouTube tags play a minimal role in helping viewers find your content. YouTube algorithms are too smart to give any credit to keyword stuffing in tags (or elsewhere). Everything the YouTube algorithm does it does to boost viewer satisfaction, which is measured with YouTube watch time. So, should you ditch tags altogether? No, they still have their place. Use tags for: But as YouTube creators,… Continue reading YouTube Tags: The Truth Creators Need to Know

6 Must-Have AI Tools for Up-and-Coming YouTubers

AI tools for YouTube creators can help shave hours off video production and give you a better end result.  There’s no shortage of AI tools for YouTube creators but the six we’ll cover here are what we’d consider must-have. So if you need a little help with scripting, thumbnails, testing, boosting audio quality, or otherwise making your YouTube videos look, sound, and perform better, this one’s for you.  YouTube has made its position on AI quite clear. If you’re using AI to trick people or game the system, your days on YouTube are numbered. At the same time though, YouTube acknowledges how helpful AI can be in the creative process. So, none of the AI tools for YouTube creators that we’re about to suggest will get your content on the wrong side of the YouTube algorithm or the YouTube Community Guidelines if used responsibly.  With that said, let’s get into it. Here are six must-try AI tools for YouTube creators. Recut: Streamlining Video Editing One of the most time-consuming aspects of video production is editing, especially when it involves cutting out pauses and silences from hours of footage. Recut automates this part of the editing process. By quickly removing unwanted… Continue reading 6 Must-Have AI Tools for Up-and-Coming YouTubers

7 YouTube Growth Tools to Boost Your Channel Subscribers

We’re about to let you in on seven amazing YouTube growth tools that’ll help creators—especially smaller creators—grow YouTube watch time and every channel metric that matters.  The powerful YouTube growth tools will help you optimize your content, understand your audience, grow your YouTube watch time and subscriber base.  Growing a YouTube channel can feel like an uphill battle. But as we’ve said before, if you put in the work, your channel will grow. And (as we’ve also said before) if you use TubeBuddy, your channel will grow faster. Here are seven essential YouTube growth tools that can significantly enhance your channel’s performance. ViewStats – The YouTube Growth Tool from MrBeast’s Team So, there’s a YouTuber you may have heard of. He goes by the name of MrBeast. He’s pretty famous… and he’s super data-driven. With over 300M subscribers on his main channel, he would seem to know a thing or two about a thing or two when it comes to YouTube growth.  His team created a YouTube growth tool called ViewStats, which provides detailed analytics on YouTube channels. These are analytics and stats that aren’t available on YouTube itself. ViewStats offers insights into estimated revenue, views per hour, and historical… Continue reading 7 YouTube Growth Tools to Boost Your Channel Subscribers