In this video we’ll show you how to navigate the TubeBuddy dashboard, the home of some
powerful TubeBuddy Tools!
[Tips & Tricks]
Hello TubeBuddies!
TubeBuddy has more tools than just those that are on YouTube, and in this video we’ll
guide you through the TubeBuddy dashboard.
The Tubebuddy dashboard shows off some cool things, and we'll learn about them together.
If you’d like to learn how to use more of the TubeBuddy tools to help you channel subscribe
and ring that bell today!
Now, follow along with me, and let’s make our way over to the TubeBuddy dashboard together.
If you’ve signed into the dashboard before, and added your channel you’ll see your page
like this.
However, if you are new to TubeBuddy and haven’t added your channel.
You’ll see the dashboard like this.
You’ll see our getting started series here.
The Onboarding Series will walk you through a lot of great points within TubeBuddy and
I highly recommend you watch that after you’re done watching this video.
We’ll include a link in the description down below!
However, let’s add our YouTube channels to the TubeBuddy Dashboard!
To add your YouTube channel under the welcome to TubeBuddy section here, click on the +
channel button here.
Once the page loads be sure to select the gmail account your YouTube channel is tied
to!
Once you select that account, be sure to select your YouTube channel, and then you’ll see
this screen.
We have a whole video on this screen.
To quickly answer TubeBuddy is safe, but you can click that card on screen to see more
on why we need this information.
When you’re ready, click allow, and you will then be taken to the dashboard with your
channel added!
On the home page you’ll see your channel here in the channels section.
We’ll cover what you can do here in a second, but will move on to, the affiliate center
if you’re part of the program, or a way to join.
We’ll look below that and see the licenses.
You’ll also see what license of Tubebuddy, or what level either the free/ starter version,
pro, star, or legend version.
You can manage it by clicking the mange button here.
Under licenses, you’ll see integrations.
These are used for tools that tie into TubeBuddy like our mobile app, twitter, facebook, or
the patreon integration.
You can click manage all, and that will take you to the integrations page.
You can see this page over here on the left hand side called integrations.
Under integrations, if you’re a paid tubebuddy user you get access to member perks.
Which are some of the EXTRA benefits of paying for TubeBuddy.
Some things in the dashboard are for the paid versions of TubeBuddy, but if you’d like
to try them we’ll have a link in the description down below.
Now let’s go back to the dashboard!
Once you’re done with the member perks, you can head back to home and it will take
you back to the home page.
You can also get back to home in the top right corner on any page!
You’ll also see the community forums, a great place to meet other TubeBuddy users,
and a way to get support in Tubebuddy.
The final area is the your profile/ sign out button.
If we click profile you can change your contact information, set how you’d like to get notifications,
get invoices with information, or permanently delete your profile on TubeBuddy.
Hopefully, you would not want to do that, but if you want to that’s how you can.
Let’s go back to the home page, and focus on some of the tools you can access using
the TubeBuddy Dashboard.
It is important to note that depending on the license you have depends on the amount
of tools you get on the dashboard.
That doesn’t mean the dashboard is useless, just something to keep in mind.
For our example we will show you everything available on the dashboard, but depending
on your version, it will visually let you know what you can and can’t do.
Let’s start with this pro feature the Health Report.
This feature lets anyone with a paid level of TubeBuddy see the health of their channel
in the last 30 days.
The health report pulls from YouTube analytics and gives you a quick glance on how your channel
is performing.
You can see the amount of views, subscribers, and uploads at the top.
The performance for the last 30 days.
Which unique traffic source, engagement source, and audience source.
This is designed to help you easily see how you’re doing on YouTube.
Health report lives under the “Data & Insights” Section here on the left hand side.
While on the left hand side, let’s click on channel valuation to see the next part
of the dashboard.
Channel valuation let’s you know how much you can charge for a dedicated upload, or
shout out on your YouTube channel.
This is brought to you by social bluebook which if you have a paid license with them
you can see here.
Back to the left hand side you’ll see our legend level tool retention analyzer under
the channel valuation.
Retention analyzer let’s you see how videos across your channel are performing at various
time intervals.
We have a full indepth video on a lot of sections in the dashboard, and we’ll link that video
in the description below!
Simply put though retention analyzer helps you work to improve overall retention on your
videos by identifying trends in audience viewership.
The next section under data and insights is usage stats!
This free feature, let’s you know how much time and money YOU Specifically are saving
using TubeBuddy tools.
You can view this as all time, or by the last 30 days.
This will track how much time you’re saving using Tubebuddy tools.
Ours at TubeBuddy is very high, but we use and test our features a lot!
If we choose the base starting pay at Tubebuddy that’s $20 an hour here you’ll see we’ve
saved over half a million dollars in productivity cost and a lot of time saved!
Speaking of saving times let’s go back to the homepage of the dashboard.
Next we'll look at the launchpad section, now this does require a star or higher license
and this lets you see how your videos are performing after uploading a video to YouTube.
You can start the process by clicking select video, but we’ll examine a video that’s
already been run.
You can see the video launch status, letting you know if TubeBuddy notices any best practices
or Opportunities found.
Next is the checklist template making sure you are doing things YOU need to remember.
This is similar with the best practice setup and you can have them actively show up on
the YouTube upload page.
After that we show you the opportunity which gives you a chance to go back and change things
in a video to help you out.
Finally active monitoring let’s you be updated and alerted for videos proactively checking
how they perform after they’ve been uploaded.
Launch pad helps you keep track of your videos after they’re uploaded.
We have more features that do this, and if we go back to the homepage we can show them
now!
These next two features as I said, let you see how your videos perform after you upload
them.
Competitor scorecard does require a legend license, and you can access search rank tracking
with a star level license.
On the competitors you can add people you want to track and see how you’re competing
with them.
Here we have some friends of TubeBuddy for example.
You can add a competitor by clicking + add competitor button here.
If we head to the left hand side, you can see the score card, and this will show you
how your channel competes with these creators.
This data can be used in other places too like Search Rank tracking, and if we look
above the competitor section on the left hand side we can see this data be used in Search
Rank Tracking, which we mentioned earlier.
We’ll with keywords to track.
As the name suggests these are the keywords you want to track, and here you can see the
keywords we have.
These should be topics you want to rank for and have authority in around these keywords/
subjects.
You can add keywords with the add keywords button here.
You can also see how you’re doing for these keywords in the ranking reports on the left
hand side here by clicking on the ranking reports.
You can set up these reports once you enter the keyword, and can change when the reports
run at the top here.
You also can view past reports run, and we will do that now.
These reports let you know where you rank in YouTube and Google.
They also show you where your competitors rank too.
The final thing you can do is scheduling and you can choose how often you want reports,
and what date you want to run the report on.
All of this is useful in helping you see more using TubeBuddy’s website tools!
To see more website tools we’ll go back to the home of the dashboard.
Next is Brand alerts a legend level tool that lets you be notified when anyone on YouTube
mentions a specific keyword.
We at TubeBuddy of course track tubebuddy!
After that is our legend level tool A/B testing where you can test thumbnails and see which
ones perform better and lead to more views!
Want to learn more about A/B testing check out the card on screen to learn more!
Next is backups and exports!
This legend tool helps you protect yourself against lost data by backing up all your videos'
metadata.
You never want to lose your data, and if you ever need to reupload your content TubeBuddy
has your back in terms of the metadata for YouTube.
You can back up your entire channel, or back up videos since your last backup.
You can then view your backups in CSV form by downloading them here.
Heading back to the homepage, we’re going to look at canned responses.
To set up canned responses you can set them here.
You have 1 for free, but have unlimited canned responses with the paid versions.
Canned responses will show up on the YouTube comments page, but they’re added here on
the website dashboard and you can use them to answer common questions, have easy links
to other videos, and do whatever you want with them AS LONG AS THEY ARE IN LINE WITH
YOUTUBE Terms of Service, which we will link in the description as well.
Next we’ll look at Promo Materials.
This helps you have permanent links to Most Recent Upload, Most Popular Upload, your Channel
Page Link, and Other helpful links for FREE!
The Final Section of TubeBuddy is the settings.
This let’s you change how you use TubeBuddy, and you can show/ hide features here.
For example change the search rank method to incognito mode to get the most accurate
results on TubeBuddy.
There are also ways you can add people to your website tools here at TubeBuddy!
Trust us, we know there is a lot here, so we have YouTube chapters in the description
so you can jump back to any section of this video.
We also have videos linked down there to help you navigate through it all in the TubeBuddy
Dashboard!
What section of our dashboard do you find yourself in the most?
For me it’s probably TubeBuddy’s A/B test, but we’re curious to what you’re using!
Do you want to learn how to navigate TubeBuddy on YouTube then check out that video!
I’m Andrew Kan from TubeBuddy, now let’s go out and start using the TubeBuddy Dashboard!