Hey guys it's Olivia and I'm back with another video.
So this week we're going to do another YouTube tips video. This is something
I just found out about this week when I was just going through the back end of my channel,
trying to change some things, see if I can optimize some videos, and I came across this and I didn't
see anyone else making a YouTube video about it so I decided to make one. So a few years ago
YouTube introduced end screens, which were basically a replacement for annotations,
and they're these clickable elements that you see at the end of videos. You see circles for channels
and you see rectangles if they're linking to a video or to a playlist or something like that;
we've all seen these end screens, right. And I was going through my videos and I realized that
you can change the size of your end screens. So I'm going to go onto my computer and show you
guys what I mean. So now we're on my channel and we're on my content tab. So if I go to this video,
which was a video I uploaded a couple of weeks ago, and I go to details,
and then if I scroll down and go to end screen you can see that I have one that's
best for viewer, a subscribe bubble, as well as a playlist to my Uber Eats playlist because this
is an Uber Eats related video, right. So as you can see these are just the default sizes.
Like, for example if I add an element, let me just add a random video, as you can see this is the
default size; they all line up in size, right. So let me just get rid of this one real quick.
So if you click on one, for example if I click on this Uber Eats video,
you can see that it gets this border and it gets these four dots. If I go to the corner and I pull
I can make the end screen bigger. And if I click save it will save that size. So you'll be able to
see that this is the original size, this is the bigger size, and you can make your end screens bigger;
except for the circles. You can't make the channel bigger; if I click on it there's no
circles in the corner I can't pull on it to make it bigger I can only move it around,
but with this one that says best for viewer I can make it bigger. Any of the rectangle ones, any of
the videos or the playlists, you can click on them and then drag from the corner to make them bigger.
So let me just discard the changes for a second. So then if I go back to
end screen you can see they're both back to the regular size. So if I go to this video,
I open this video on YouTube, if I skip to the end you can see both of these are the same size, right.
So then if I go back to the video details, and I go to the end screen,
and then I select my Uber Eats playlist, and I drag to make it bigger, and save.
And then I go back to the same video, and go to the end; you can see that it's bigger now.
So if I toggle between these two tabs; this is what it was before, this is what it is now.
So yeah, that's something that I just realized recently. I don't know if it's been there for a while
or if that feature has always been there since the beginning of end screens, but I just
found out about it this week and I genuinely think that this is going to be helpful because
if something's bigger it's taking up more of your eye space. And so I feel like people are
going to be more likely to click on it. The only caveat I would say is, you guys know if you are
creators that end screens can't overlap. So if I go back to video details and I go to end screens,
this works because of the current layout of my end screens; I have 1 video, 1 playlist,
and a subscribe bubble, right. However, some people tend to put 4 videos. So let me just
do that really quickly. So as you can see I have 4 rectangles now; I have 3 videos and a playlist, right.
So some people like to do this and they put 4 videos, however, if you were to drag and make
them bigger, make them their full possible size, then they would end up overlapping. So if you're
a person who typically puts 4 videos or 4 playlists or 4 of the rectangles, then by
making them bigger you will no longer be able to fit all 4 because the size will make them overlap.
Meanwhile, if you are someone who typically puts 2 videos and a subscribe button, or you put
1 video and a subscribe button, or any other typical layout then you can -- discard these changes.
You can fit them and maybe even make a couple of them bigger. Like for example,
if I were to move this subscribe button up here, then I wouldn't be able to make this one
full size 'cause it would overlap, but I'd definitely be able to make it a little bit bigger.
So basically you can go through your videos and play around with it and make certain end screen
elements bigger or make all of them bigger as long as they fit within the allotted space, and yeah.
I just think that there's the potential to get more clicks on your end screens
if you make them bigger. So yes that's it; that is just this quick thing that I discovered this past week
and I've been going through all my previous videos. I've gone through maybe about 150 of my
200+ videos and I've just been going through all of them and adjusting the size of my end screens
because it can't hurt the only thing it can do is help. So that's what I've been doing and it's just
something that I wanted to share with you guys and yeah, I hope that I was able to help you with your end screens.
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