- Managing a YouTube channel can take a lot of work
and for anyone who's already active on YouTube,
you know just how long the little things can take,
like managing cards, in-cards, tags, keyword research,
performance tracking, all of this really needs to be done
to get the maximum result out of your videos.
If you're like us and you're looking for a better way
to do all of this, then stay tuned 'cause we're gonna run
through the tool that's helped us save over 70%
of our channel management time and my five favorite features
for helping us do it.
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Okay, the tool we're talking about today is TubeBuddy.
Now we've been using it for about 12 months
and a friend of the channel, Sean Cannell,
actually introduced us to TubeBuddy a little while back.
TubeBuddy has an absolute ton of features
and if you've ever spent any time looking at their
feature page, you can see that they have a huge amount
of tools there to help you grow
and manage your YouTube channel
and it's made a massive impact on the way that we manage
our channel, but not just with channel management,
also with SEO and performance tracking as well,
but that's a whole separate kettle of fish
which I'll cover in a separate video.
Today we're gonna focus on my top five features
for channel management.
Let's jump straight into it.
Feature number one is card templates.
So when we're adding cards to videos,
what I tend to find it that a lot of the cards
we're using are reused from other videos
but without TubeBuddy, you have to go in
and manually add the cards in each and every time
you wanna use them, but what this card template feature
let's you do is create templates of cards
from existing videos and then copy those across
to new videos when you release them.
So to show you what I mean,
let's jump into this subtitles video.
And take a look at the Cards.
Now you can see here we've got two cards set up
for this one, one's a link to another video,
our transcription video, and the other is
a link to subscribe to Primal Video,
so this is something we'd normally wanna use
on multiple videos and other videos of ours too
have opt-ins for our iPhone and Android guides
or the Primal Video method.
So to save time, instead of recreating those on every video,
all we have to do is come into the video we wanna set
as a template and click this Set this Video
as a Cards Template and you can see there changes are saved.
Now if we come back to Video Manager,
and then jumping into a video which hasn't been released,
let's say this one, head over to Cards there,
so instead of manually creating the cards here,
all I have to do is click Apply Template,
it'll give us the option here to pick from other templates
we've already set up, can choose that, it's brought up
the cards there, just his Apply,
and then after the page refreshes, you can see
it's applied the two cards there.
Now all I have to do is move them to where I want them
positioned in the video or I can go in and edit them again
and change the videos or change anything about them.
But it saves a heap of time, especially if you're using
the same cards across multiple videos.
So card templates aren't available
in the free TubeBuddy version, but they are available
in the pro plan which starts at around nine dollars a month.
Now onto feature number two, Comment Filters.
So this one does have some basic options available
in the free plan, so you can easily try it out
and see how it works for you, but what it essentially
provides is the ability to super charge
your comment management and to show you what I mean by that,
let's jump into the Community tab here and over to Comments.
So normal YouTube will provide the ability
to search comments, but it can't just show a specific
comment you haven't responded to or comments with questions
or apply any other filters, that's where TubeBuddy comes in.
So if we wanna come in and respond to as many comments
as we can that we haven't already responded to,
all I have to do is hit this dropdown here
and then select the filter to show only comments
that I have not replied to.
So you can see here now we've got a list of the comments
that we haven't yet action, so I can quickly go through
and respond without wasting any time
and without filtering through a huge list of comments,
some of which I've already responded to, some I haven't,
so it's a great way to streamline
your comment management process.
Now that's just one of the filters,
you've also got the option to show comments
that contain profanity, that contain links,
that contain positive or negative sentiment, but the big one
here is actually comments that contain questions.
If you're short on topic ideas, you can easily come in here,
see at a glance all of the questions that you've received
in your comments and then come up with
topic ideas from that.
And if you wanna filter by something
a little more sophisticated, you can always drop down
to the Advanced tab here and then craft up
your own custom filter.
Okay, now feature number three,
so TubeBuddy has a bunch of bulk processing
functionality here, but the one that I've chosen
for feature number three is Bulk Find, Replace & Append.
So that does exactly what it sounds like,
it allows you to search across all of your videos,
find specific wording, terms, URLs,
and replace them with the hit of a button
across all of those videos.
You can also easily add information to all of your
descriptions using the same tool.
So this comes in handy if you've ever changed
a social profile and need to update the link
or you've created a new profile on another platform
or if you've got any links to opt-in pages or resources
on your website or affiliate links that you need to update
across the board, you can just come in here,
find and replace across all of your videos with one click.
Obviously if you've got a pretty big video catalog
and you need to go back and update some links,
this can save a ton of time but it can also help to generate
you more money by keeping your affiliate
and your opt-in links up to date.
So let's see how that works.
We head into the Video Manager,
now I just hit that Bulk button up there,
Find, Replace and Append,
so we wanna find the text primalvideo.com.
Now we're not actually gonna change it,
but I'll put it in as primalvideo.com/.
We wanna search in just descriptions
and we hit continue,
search the full list of videos,
so this should show up in quite a few of our videos
as you can imagine and there we go.
It's found in the description of all of these videos there,
so I can select all or I can choose
which videos I want to update.
And then once you've selected the videos you want to update,
you just hit Continue and it'll go through and replace
the text on all of those videos for you with one click,
but we're not gonna do that now because we don't need to.
So Bulk Find, Replace & Append is actually one of the
premium features and that's bundled in with the Star plan
which is around 19 dollars a month,
so you won't get this on a free subscription.
Okay let's jump onto feature four.
So another one of our favorite features
is View and Copy video tags.
Now this one's actually really simple and it's bundled in
with all of the TubeBuddy plans.
Once you've used this, it's so hard to go back.
So it does exactly what it says,
it basically allows you to easily see the tags
on your videos and other peoples videos
and copy them to your clipboard or to your other videos.
Let me show you want I mean.
So let's jump back into the subtitle video here.
Who's that good looking guy?
And you can see here we've got three new tabs here,
these are all brought in by TubeBuddy,
so there's Stats, Tools, and then Tags is the one
we're looking at now.
So what it's showing here is all the tags that this video
has and even the video's rankings for each of these
terms in search.
So what I can do here is easily copy the tags,
I can paste them into another video or I can paste them
into a Word document or a text document
and edit them down, but what's even more powerful is
if I wanna have a look and see what some competitors
are doing for this topic, let's have a search for
subtitles for youtube,
I can see here that Derral Eves has the number one spot
for that one.
- So you're looking to create captions--
- Sorry mate, I'll watch that later,
and we head to Tags on Derral's video,
you can see we get the same information,
it's showing all of his tags that he's using
and how he's ranking for each of them.
So I can borrow his tags if I like, hit copy,
and then go back and paste those into my videos
and then tailor them up or edit them down
to optimize the video a bit more.
Now one of the reasons it's so powerful is
that tag research and keyword research,
if you're doing it properly, can take quite a bit of time,
so TubeBuddy makes it a lot easier by allowing you
a sneak peek into what the more successful videos are doing
and how they're ranking for each of those tags
so then you can copy and improve from there.
Borrow sounds better than copy, right?
Okay, now for the big one, feature number five,
Tag Explorer.
Now both feature four and feature five,
View and Copy Tags and Tag Explorer will actually
get a feature in our upcoming video on our top five
TubeBuddy features for video ranking and SEO
because they're incredibly powerful for optimizing
your videos and really getting the right tags,
the right keywords in play, but they're also
pretty critical for channel management
in that they can save a huge amount of time
when you're uploading and optimizing your videos.
Let's take a closer look at Tag Explorer.
So what it lets you do is easily review tags
that you're thinking of putting on your videos,
provides suggestions, let's you know who's ranking
for each of those keywords in search,
and also give you a keyword score,
taking into account the search volume
and the amount of competition for that, so the number
of videos that have been uploaded with that tag
or targeted at that search term,
so let's jump in and I'll show you what it looks like.
Now there's a couple of different ways to jump into
the Tag Explorer, the easiest way is if you're
viewing a video, let's use Derral's again,
and you can see here he's ranking number one
for Create Subtitles for YouTube,
so if I click on that, that brings up the Tag Explorer
and we can see it's automatically searching for that tag.
Now when it comes back you can see here that Derral has
the top ranking video for that search, he's got one of 20
search results in there, we don't have any in there just yet
and you can also see it's given us a keyword score here,
the search volume it says is average,
the competition is average, so overall it's given
a bad rating because it's quite competitive,
there are a lot of videos in this space
and the search volume isn't really there.
The other useful piece of information it's giving us here
is the Most Used Tags in the top videos for this search,
so you don't wanna use all of these, you just wanna pick
the ones that are specific to your videos,
so in this case it would be captions, closed captions,
subtitle, subtitles, closed captioning,
youtube captions, or whatever you wanna trial there.
You can see it's pulling this data from YouTube
search results, Google search results, and Google Trends,
so it's a pretty powerful aggregator.
Now where it gets really interesting is if we jump across
to some of these other tags, it also gives us
auto suggested keywords and tags over here,
specifically for Google and YouTube.
So there's a few other tabs here as well,
Trending tab, the Historical tab, which actually gives you
a graph of the search results and the search volume
over time whether your topic is increasing in popularity
or decreasing, so there's definitely some powerful tools
that packed into this Tag Explorer,
but the key thing is it saves you a lot of time
with your research and it can also really help you
optimize your videos which we'll cover in a bit more detail
in our video focusing on the top five features
for SEO and video ranking.
So the Tag Explorer's another one that's included
in the free plan, it includes a basic version
of the Tag Explorer, which I think gives you
a limited number of search results, but then you can
unlock the full list of the pro plan or above,
but it's definitely worth trialing the free version
of TubeBuddy just for this feature alone.
So there you have it, the top five features.
Now, as I mentioned, there are a ton more features in here,
I mean, we only touched on one of the Bulk Processing Tools,
we're gonna jump into a bit more on the SEO
in a later video,
but there's also a ton of tools here around
Data Research and Productivity like publishing native videos
to Facebook from YouTube, setting up canned responses
for comments that you're receiving all the time,
and even generating animated gifs from your YouTube videos
to share on Twitter or Facebook or any other platform.
So there you have it, our top five features
for channel management using TubeBuddy.
If you haven't tried it yourself yet,
I definitely recommend grabbing a free TubeBuddy account
and having a play around.
Now as I mentioned, TubeBuddy has a ton of features
and they're not just limited to channel management, so.
We've seen massive differences with our video rankings
and also our keyword research, performance tracking,
you name it, we're gonna cover my top five favorite features
for performance tracking and video ranking in separate video
which I'll link up as soon as it's done.
And before you go, if you're already using TubeBuddy,
make sure to leave a comment below and let us know
what you're favorite features are
and what you found most useful.
We haven't had a chance to test out every single feature yet
so it'll be great to see what you guys found helpful
and I'm sure the rest of the Primal Video community
would like to know too.
Thanks very much, I'll see ya next time.