Do you get too many YouTube alerts? Do you get those notifications every time somebody posts
a video? I know it can be a bit annoying: “Bing bing!” Sorry I couldn't find the sound effects. In
this video I'm going to show you how to subscribe to a channel, how to turn on those alerts, how to
turn off the alerts but still stay subscribed, and how to unsubscribe from a channel. Let's get
to it. So, first, how to subscribe to a channel. That's very easy. You know how to do this. You
find the channel and you find the video. You click on the channel's owner. You can hit “Subscribe”.
And so, as I do that, it now says “Subscribed”. And so that's going to appear in my subscriptions
list. But now, this video here—and, by the way, this is Justin Brown from Primal Video.
The guys at Primal Video have taught me so much about how to grow on YouTube. I really
recommend the channel. This channel has got some great things about video editing,
about editing. Screen recording on the iPhone, and Da Vinci Resolve. I don't even know what that is.
I think it's a video editor. I don't know. I don't care. I don't want to get an alert about that.
And OBS Studio. Once again, it's not something that interests me but the YouTube thumbnail one
definitely interests me. “How to create a YouTube channel”. Yes.
So, what do we do? We can set up the alerts here and make them personalized and what that means is
that YouTube is going to say “well, Anthony is not so interested in those videos about
the Da Vinci editor”, so YouTube is not going to give me a notification about those
but when the Primal Video guys put up a new public video; when they set that video to public
then I'll get alerted on the ones that I'm interested in. And YouTube is pretty good
at figuring out which ones you like. You could set yourself an alert to all videos, so that
means absolutely every video that they post, that they make public, when they make it public
then I'll get an alert about that. Or you can make it personalized.
And now, if it's if it's a channel that's getting just too many videos
then you can just turn it off and it will still appear in your home page from time to time
because you are subscribed to the channel. And you, of course, you can completely unsubscribe
from a channel doing it this way. You just click on that button. It says “what? Are you
sure you want to unsubscribe?” I do. And then that's it and you can see that that red button
is now inviting me to subscribe again if I want to, which I better do because I don't want to miss
those videos once again. By the default, it's set to “Personalized” which is great. Now I'm going
to show you how to do this on a mobile phone. And I'll do this using a different channel, my friend
Rob Deptford. So I'm inside the YouTube app and I'll just go and search for Rob Deptford.
There we go. And you can see that I am set to subscribed. But you can see that little
line that has just gone through the bell? That means that I don't actually get notifications
from Rob's channel. So, let's fix that. First I want to turn on the notification if the bell is
all white or colored in, that's all notifications. And the middle one is Personalized. A bit hard to
see against that black color but personalized. In fact for Rob, I'm going to subscribe to his
channel, make them all alerts every time he posts a video, I should get notified,
notified about it. And now to unsubscribe, once again, you select the channel and you just hit the
“Unsubscribe” button. And of course you can subscribe again if you want to,
which I recommend that you do because Rob's got some great videos on all kinds of technical stuff.
Pretty good for people in my space for people who follow my channel. [Bell sound]. I found it.