YouTube now has a better way of laying out your channel in sections. It's easier to find. It's
easier to do. There is some functionality that has changed but I'm going to show you how it
looks. Now, this is current as of the new YouTube Studio in November 2020. First, let's see what
sections look like on your YouTube channel for a YouTube user. So, here it is on the desktop. So
I've got this section here: Popular Uploads. So, I've got one for popular uploads one for Uploads.
So, this one is for my popular stuff (that is getting the most views, as you can see),
and this one is just for anything that I have uploaded for people who are really following
what's on my channel. These ones are around more of a theme of growing your YouTube channel.
So I've got all of these sections. Some people are coming to my channel for Zoom
and that's why they subscribe. Hey, if you haven't subscribed please do. Others are coming for other
reasons. They want to see how I'm growing my channel. So these are all sections. So,
where do you set them up and how do you move them around? So, I go into YouTube Studio now
and so here's where the question is. “The option to move sections up or down on the home page now
seems to be missing.” No, it is there. I'm going to show you where. “And displaying a
section in horizontal or vertical format has also disappeared.” That's true. It has disappeared.
So, let's have a look at it. So, I'm in YouTube Studio. Thanks for your question,
musicgarryj. Thank you so much for your question. So, where do you do it? So,
you go into customization here and it's a good idea when you change your channel around,
change your channel theme, if you find that some videos are starting to to get more traction
then maybe it's worthwhile creating a section. And so here it's under Customization. Featured
sections. Now I can already see that I've got one section here: Popular uploads, (you saw that).
I've got another one: Featured channels but this is grayed out because it's pointing to another
channel that I started and then I deleted the channel. Now, instead of YouTube displaying this
with a basically a dead video channel, it doesn't display it at all. So if you go and delete videos
from your sections, if you delete them all it's not going to display the section. So I
want to get rid of this section altogether. Here's how to do it. I go “remove section”,
and that's gone. I'm going to show you how to add a section. Very easy! So, here's the sections. It
could be just short videos or else it could be a single playlist. That's usually what you'll
probably want to do. Or you could create your own playlists or multiple playlists. So, remember,
a playlist is a group of videos and they don't have to be your videos. You could have a playlist
of some of my most popular music videos or my most popular music channels that I follow or something
like that. So a quick check-in here. You create the video first and then you can put it into
a playlist. So, you may have a group of three, four, five videos in your playlist and then that
playlist can belong to a section. You may have several playlists in a section and the playlists
themselves can contain your own videos or other people's videos. You link to their videos. I don't
mean for you to download their video and make it your own, right? Breaching copyright! Don't
do that! I've got a playlist called “Best time to upload on YouTube” so I'm going to create that as
a section. Probably doesn't make sense for me to create it as a section but just to show you how I
do it. Single playlist. So select there and then “The best time to upload (to post) on YouTube.”
So that's my playlist. Now that playlist consists of first, my video and one from
Primal Video (the good guys there Justin and Mike Brown. Great, great! Definitely
worth following them. And one from Annie and then from Video Influencers. So, we've got
four different videos, all different angles on the best time to post on YouTube. So I've now got this
playlist here. Now what if I want to rearrange the order of those playlists? All I have to do
is go over here, hover over here, and then drag it up. So I'm clicking down and then dragging it up
and I'm going to put that one beneath “Grow your YouTube channel” and once I do if I'm not happy
with all of the changes then I can just hit Cancel but otherwise I'll hit Publish. Now,
notice that the only option now is for the horizontal playlist. So I'll show you what
that looks like. If I refresh here when I view YouTube and now when I go over and view my channel
as a YouTube subscriber as a subscriber here I get to see popular uploads is still there
uploads are still there grow your YouTube channel and then best time to post on YouTube
and so that shows me those videos once again I can go in and edit that playlist
and change the order of those but for the time being this is only going to this is
going to show the first video as the thumbnail for that playlist but that section is there
now and as you can see all of the sections are horizontal so once again to remove the section I
think this one doesn't justify its own section on my channel on my channel page so I'm going
to remove that section so click on there and then remove the section I can view the playlist
or edit the contents of it, whether it contains one playlist or several or just a single video,
and then I'll remove that section and then hit Publish again and then we're done. Thank you
again for the question Garry. And I'm here to answer questions like this about Zoom,
about how you use Zoom and how I'm growing my YouTube channel and I'm sharing my journey along
the way, so if that's something helpful for you, you may like to subscribe to the channel.