Hello there, welcome to Nate's Take! Today we're gonna talk about a few different ways
that you can schedule your YouTube videos to go public.
Let's start basic. The most basic way to schedule a, a YouTube upload is to put an alarm or
reminder on your calendar so that on that date and time, you can just log right in to
YouTube and upload it right then. And if you upload it right then and you send it public,
and then you wait a week if you're doing once a week, right? And an alarm goes off on your
phone and you just, you just keep the schedule. So that's the most basic way is to wait until
you're ready for it to go live that you upload it.
Now if you upload multiple at one time, make sure they don't go public when you upload
them. But then you can log in later when your alarm goes off and you can change them public at that time.
A very good question is why would you want to upload a video to YouTube and not have
it go public. You know, why would you want it to go Private or Unlisted.
In my case, there's a lot of work that I put into a YouTube video. Once I upload it, there's
a lot that needs to be done before I want people to see it. And if I filmed many videos
at the same time, then I don't want them to all go public at the same time. I wanna be
strategic about that.
So some of the things that I focus on and put a lot of detail in is I need to make sure
that the title is there. The description, I like to have a good written out description.
Sometimes I have my staff do that. If I'm uploading the video and they're writing the
description for me, you know, that doesn't happen immediately, so I don't want it to
go live right then.
I also create a really good thumbnail, and some thumbs tape, take a lot longer than others
to create. And then I have a whole strategy of things that I do - of teaser videos that
I create or social media posts that I write that I wanna have written before I make that
video go public... so that I can launch it all at the same time.
Okay, so now I'm gonna show you so that you don't mess this part up 'cause you wanna make
sure that your default settings go to Unlisted and not to Public; because otherwise, you'll,
you'll make a mistake sometimes, okay?
So we come in here to YouTube and you click Upload. It takes you to this screen. See right
here how without me changing it, it says Unlisted, okay? If it says Public, that means that your
default settings are Public and you DO NOT want that. You definitely wanna protect, protect
yourself and make sure that it's Unlisted.
Okay, so you're gonna wanna go to the Video Manager which I've got a little shortcut here
from TubeBuddy. I'll just click my videos and that takes me there. Otherwise, you go
to your channel and then click on Video Manager.
And then you come over here to Channel and click on Upload Defaults. Okay, right here
under Privacy, make sure that you select Unlisted, okay? Make sure that's checked, then you just
simply hit Save.
Now if you know me, you know I love efficiency. I love being super productive with my time.
And if I'm gonna set up lighting or set up my studio in a certain way, I wanna get the
most out of it that I can, so I film a lot in bulk.
When I meet with my clients, when I'm helping them with their YouTube channel, we'll typically
film 10 videos at a time. And most common, this is for a one video per week schedule,
so we just, you know, when we film in one day, we just filmed 10 weeks worth of videos.
So you could imagine if you have 10 videos that you uploaded and you've got them all
ready, it is kind of a pain to have to worry about you know, signing on that morning at
the right time that you want it to go public, it's pretty handy to be able to actually SCHEDULE
that and just have it go live. You know, what if you sleep in or something like that? You
don't have to worry about that if you can schedule them.
I now wanna emphasize the important principle of consistency, okay? It's so important! I
don't know how to emphasize it in a more powerful way. Maybe I wave my arms or something. Consistency
is sole key here, okay? Now what do I mean by that?
Your audience has expectations from you, okay? They'll watch a video or a few videos of yours,
they kinda get a sense for your style, and so when the future videos come out, if they
subscribed to you, they're, they're expecting to get a similar style. So that's one area
that you wanna be consistent. It's just that that style, you can change things slightly
here and there, make it, make it true to your personality and, and to your style. Don't
just see some other YouTuber and what they've done and think 'Ooh, I'm gonna try that on
this video!'. It's not about being strict on, on incorporating ideas, but you just wanna
give your audience what they expect, okay?And it's up to you to judge what that is, but
your audience just needs to feel that consistency.
There's also consistency of schedule, okay? So if you post a video every week, do it on
the same day. Give your subscribers something to look forward to and even form a habit of
watching your videos.
So if every Wednesday morning at 8am you launch a YouTube video, people will get into the
habit of, of expecting that. Wednesday morning comes up, they'll think 'Ooh, there's another
video coming.'. Also, you know, you'll broadcast that out by email and people will expect to
see emails at a certain time. If you do two videos a week, then pick the days of the week
that you do that. If you go longer than a week, you know, then your consistency I find
doesn't really need to fall on a specific day, but try and make it specific. I mean,
every couple weeks-ish, is, is okay, I guess. I recommend at least one video per week.
YouTube does have a built-in scheduling feature. But, there's a but. You have to have a Private
video first that you can then schedule to go Public. You can't do that from Unlisted,
for some reason. So let me show you this.
Here I am logged in to a real estate channel. And you see that I've got three videos here
in a row that are Unlisted. If I come over here to, well let me hit Edit. And you'll
see right here it's also Unlisted. There's a, an option for Scheduled. But it is little
bit faded. I cannot click on that. So if I first change it to Private, and I hit Save,
then I can come down here and Scheduled is now able to be clicked on. So if I hit Schedule,
it allows me to pick a date and the time and the time zone, right? And I could have that
broadcast to Google+ and to Twitter as well.
So if I were to put a date and time and hit Publish, it'll publish on that specific date
and time. Now this video doesn't even have a description yet. I've got my team working
on some other things as well. So I'm gonna change it back to Unlisted so my team can
do that. That's why I don't like to, to use Private because then I'd have to worry about
passwords for people to access my video and things and I don't like that.
So, the third option is to use a cool tool called TubeBuddy. And there is a free version
of the TubeBuddy, but to use the feature I'm gonna show you, you do have to pay 20 bucks
a month and that's per YouTube account.
If you have, if you have lots of YouTube accounts, they actually give you a discount down in
bulk. But what I would do is I come up here to my TubeBuddy button and you can click this
right here - Scheduled Go Live. And the same window pops up with the calendar, time, and
whatever, and even though I'm Unlisted, what TubeBuddy does is it will log in on my behalf
at that time and it will change it from Unlisted to Public for me. So I can schedule it in
a roundabout way through the TubeBuddy software.
So that's actually how I do it.
Alright, so I prefer Unlisted to Private for many reasons. In fact, I never use Private.
To me, they're the same. If somebody has the link, they can watch it. But otherwise, my
audience doesn't even know that video exists. They can't search for it, they can't go to
view all my videos, and they won't be listed there.
If there are people that I want to watch the video, maybe to preview or one of my staff
or something like that, I can send them the link and they can watch it. Now if a video
hasn't gone public yet, it doesn't mean that the views aren't counted 'cause the views are!
So you can have a video that's say, Unlisted for a couple of weeks and you send it out
to specific people, and those views will start to be counted up. You could potentially send
it out to your entire email list or social media and get a bunch of views that way before
it goes public. It just depends on your strategy. But to just know that those views are counted.
Now, once you make the video public, the date that the public sees resets. So you can upload
a video as Unlisted, but then change it to Public down the road when you're ready for
it to, and that date will change. So your subscribers will not see the video until you
make it public. You need to make sure though that your default settings are not set to
Upload Videos to Public. Because if it goes public and then you change it back to Unlisted
or Private, and then when, hoping that you can go back to Public and have that date reset,
the date will not reset. It only will reset one time when you go public.
So make sure default setting's upload as Unlisted or Private.
Okay, so quick summary of the three ways you can schedule videos to go public are 1, just
put it in your calendar. And on that certain day of the week in the certain time, say,
in the morning or something, you just log in to YouTube and you upload it and have it
go public right then. And you just schedule it to go out on that consistency, say, once per week.
The second way is to use YouTube scheduling feature. But this only works if your videos
are Private. So you upload it to YouTube private, and then you can schedule it to go public
at a specific time. So that works. Or you can use a tool like I use if you want your
videos to go from Unlisted to Public and schedule that, you can use TubeBuddy, and again, that
costs 20 bucks per month.
Alright, so hopefully one of those options work for you in knowing how to schedule your
YouTube videos to go live to the public. I do recommend using TubeBuddy especially or
at least the free version, okay?
Let me show you a couple other features just as a bonus that I like to use, let's see right here...
If I click on Tags, you'll see that this specific video is ranked Number 1 for that phrase.
It's ranked #1 for that phrase, #1 for that, so you know, if you type in this phrase in
the YouTube search bar, you'll see it #1. It's ranked #4 for that phrase and #7 for
that phrase, #2, #2, #3, and it's not ranked for either of those two.
So that's one handy feature. Just being able to look at my tags, see where they're ranked,
I can click on this link here for Tools and you see that there's lots of different things
here. I can come up here and, and there's a whole bunch of, of quick links and, and
you know, bulk annotations, stuff like that. So I'll just leave it as that as a quick intro,
introduction.
If you have any questions about uploading videos to YouTube that I didn't answer, make
sure you put a comment below and I will answer. Hope you have an influential day!