There are a lot of third party YouTube tools
out there that you can use to help
you grow your channel and your audience,
and one of the ones I use the most
frequently is socialblade.com.
And today we're going to give you
a few ideas of how you can use to better your channel.
Hey, guys, my name is Tim Schmoyer,
and it's Thursday, which means it's time to do some Youtube
Q&A with you guys that we do every week,
here at Video Creators.
One of you wrote and asked this question-- can
you please explain the Social Blade thing a bit, please?
Well, since you asked so nicely, yes, of course.
Let's talk about Social Blade.
I asked the owner and the founder of socialblade.com
to join us here, and he's going to give you
a quick overview of what the website is,
and how you can use it.
And then I'm going to come on at the end,
and share another idea that I have of how I best use it,
and this is not sponsored or anything, just
totally to help you guys out.
The first thing you need to know is Social Blade is a stat site.
We track about 7 million YouTube channels currently.
Anyone that has at least five subscribers
can get entered in the system, and then we
track all these channels every single day.
As a result of this, what you can do is you
can put your channel in, and you can
get a quick health check of your channel,
as well as see future predictions.
So, you can see how many subscribers you're
getting every single day.
How many views you're getting every single day.
And, sort of, then extrapolate that,
if you keep growing at the current rate,
what's that going to look like in future?
And the great thing about this is you can do this,
not only for your own channel, but you
can do this for any channel in our system.
So, if you wanted to compare your channel against-- I don't
know-- whomever else-- you want to be the next gamer--
and can compare yourself against Petey Pie.
And see that he's got way too may views and subscribers,
but he's doing great on there.
Anyway, what you can do is, not only just pull up
the other person's stuff, but we even
have a compare feature where you can actually put your channel
and whoever you want to compare yourself to.
You'll see some graphs and data about that, as well
as predictions, for the future growth of both of the channels
also.
So, it's a good way to, sort of, compare
yourself to see how you're doing with another channel out there.
As well as also see rankings of-- you might be ranked
10,000th most viewed on YouTube, and you might not know that.
And the person that you're trying to compare yourself
with-- they might have a million subscribers,
but only be 50,000th most viewed.
And you can see that you're actually
doing better than them.
Number three.
The thing that you can do is you can keep tabs
on a whole bunch of people.
So, we have a favorite system set up.
If you care about 10 different channels-- however
many channels-- you can favorite them
all by clicking the heart on Social Blade,
in sort of the top corner of each stats page,
and then you can go to your Favorites list
and see all the channels at a glance.
So, if you want to keep track of maybe multiple channels you
have, or all of your closest competitors, or friends,
competitors, whatever you want to call them, you can put them
in there, and, sort of, see, at a glance,
how every channel's doing, as well as graph
all those channels by selecting them up in the Favorites list
as well.
The next thing that you can do is, if you are at a gathering,
like Vitcon, Playlist Live, or any sort of gathering
like this, or even if you meet a YouTuber on the street,
and you might not know, sort of, how their channel is doing.
We have an app on here.
We find that a lot of people, if they're at Vitcon,
or wherever, they'll get the name of the channel,
and then even while they're talking with them--
or while-- after they talk with them--
just sort of take notes on the channel,
they'll look up the channel on our app here,
so they can see how they're ranked,
because we have our ranking system, which you get,
sort of, the average channel, in general,
but most people in the system are ranked a C of some sorts,
but you will have the B's and the A's also.
And you'll be able to see quickly,
at a glance, with that how somebody
you just met might actually rank on YouTube.
The last thing I just want to talk about's a fun one.
Not only do we have the stats that, if you are checking
your stats on the site regularly,
we update every hour, but otherwise, like I said,
at least once a day we'll update channels.
We also have a live stats feature too.
So, if you're getting close to a milestone
on YouTube, like you're about to hit
1,000 subscribers or 100,000 subscribers,
or whatever the goal is, we can display those numbers
to you in real time also.
Thanks so much for that, Jason.
To take some of the things that he said,
kind of a step further, one of the ways
I use it with clients that I work with,
and they recommend to other creators,
is that you do track and favorite those channels
that you consider to be competitors.
Maybe you're not actually competing with them,
but they're just in your niche.
And the key thing to do is to pay attention
to what they're doing on the channel.
Watch all of their videos.
Try to reverse engineer the strategy
that you think that they're doing that is
making them become successful.
And then, you could overlay your channel right
on top of their channel.
Not that you're going to imitate them,
but you can see what is my audience going to respond to
and what are they not going to respond to.
Because this channel is targeting the same people,
the same viewers that I'm targeting,
and so I can learn from what this person's doing,
and help me make better decisions about my own content.
About what to do.
What does work.
What doesn't work.
How to reach out to them.
And a lot of things like that.
But, I would love to hear from you in the comments
below-- how do you use socialblade.com,
if this is a tool that you use regularly?
And what insights have you gained
about how to best grow your channel
and develop your audience?
I'd love to hear from you guys and learn from you.
Also, make sure you go read everything that people
are leaving down there, because I
know you will learn a lot from them just as I always do.
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