- There's a new YouTube feature
that's been slowly rolling out to creators over time,
and we're at a point now
where a good number of you should have access to it.
Just through testing this feature ourselves,
we've been able to get over 30 to 40,000 interactions
on our channel with just a couple minutes of work.
This magic YouTube feature?
YouTube quizzes.
Now, whenever I talk about the community tab,
I get all kinds of questions like,
does the community tab even matter?
Is this even worth my time?
Let's address those real quick first
and then let's talk about how you can use this
for a ton of exposure on your YouTube channel.
The first thing I want to point out
is that you can indeed gain views on your videos
from community tab posts
and you can do so in a couple of different ways.
One example of this is using a YouTube video in a poll post.
We've tested this method ourselves
with some of our older dead videos.
It only takes a couple of minutes.
Ask a question that kind of relates
to the video you want to link,
throw a link at the end of the question,
and then have your poll follow that.
The result is dead videos getting thousands of views.
Additionally though,
when you're not subscribed to a channel
but you happen upon one of their community posts,
say, in the mobile app,
you will see a subscribe button
in the top right corner of that post.
You won't get a ton of subscribers from this button
but in the last 28 days,
this is how many subscribers we've gotten
from our own community posts.
If somebody is willing to subscribe from a community post,
there's a really good chance they are willing to come back
and watch your actual videos,
provided you follow the best practices for posting.
When somebody first subscribes to your channel,
YouTube does test out your content on their home feed.
So when you're using these quizzes
or any other YouTube community tab feature for that matter,
you want to make sure
that the content you're putting in them
is relevant to the content you make on your channel.
For example, if we did a quiz like this one and it said,
which is higher: the population of Poland
or subscribers on Markiplier's main YouTube channel?
And you thought you knew the answer,
so you clicked one of them
and then you decided to go check out some of our videos
only to find that we post videos about skydiving.
Naturally, you'd be a little bit confused
because we were doing a quiz about Poland and Markiplier
and here we are talking about a completely different topic
but that poll I just showed you is one we did run
and one that made sense for us
because we're always talking about views and subscribers
on other people's channels.
That particular quiz, by the way, got over 30,000 answers.
The point is, make sure your community posts are fun,
engaging, and relevant to the audience
you're trying to meet with your content
because it would be super easy
to spam your community tab quizzes with random trivia
that you just kind of find scattered all over the internet
but when people interact with those
and then try and watch your content and it doesn't match,
they're not really gonna get anything out of that,
and chances are they're not going to subscribe.
Now, why are quizzes so powerful
that I would go out of my way
and do a completely separate video about the community tab?
Well, here's the thing.
Quizzes specifically when done right are irresistible.
When you pose a simple question to somebody
and they think they know the answer,
chances are they're gonna wanna test themselves.
And, you know, polls are great and we do them all the time
but polls are opinion-based,
whereas quizzes are fact-based.
With polls because they're based around opinions,
people may not interact with them
because they just don't have an opinion
about the thing you're polling them for
but with quizzes, if people are interested
and they want to learn something,
they're likely to try it out. At least that's what the data
on our own channel is telling us.
For example, our best poll from this month had 33,000 votes.
Our worst quiz though had 32,000 responses.
That particular quiz was the one I've already shown you
and it happens to be at the time of recording this video
our most recent quiz.
So, by the time you see this,
it may have gotten even more answers.
In the last couple of years especially,
YouTube has done a really good job
of rolling up all the features
from other major social media platforms onto YouTube.
Shorts could be compared to TikTok.
Live streams have come a very long way
and are always getting improvements
based on things happening over on Twitch,
and the community tab directly competes
with the types of content you would see
on a place like Instagram.
I'm personally a believer of focusing on one thing at a time
when you're first starting out a new channel.
So, having the community tab, shorts,
and live streams and long form videos
all in one place makes a lot of sense.
If you want to grow, the last thing I want you doing
is worrying about your social media presence
on every website on the internet.
And listen, the reach of the community tab on its own
is incredibly broad.
Just on our own channel in the last 28 days,
we've gotten over 3 million impressions on our posts.
So the strategy I would suggest to you
is to post to your community tab at least once a day.
I'd also suggest mixing it up
between the types of posts you create.
For example, do a quiz one day and an image post the next.
Make sure those posts
relate to the content you're making on your channel
and try to avoid the classic,
"What video should I make next?" poll.
Listen, your audience has a lot to worry about.
Just pick a video.
If you couldn't already tell,
I am a fan of the community tab
but if you're sick of hearing about it
and you just want to know
how to get more impressions on your actual videos,
then I will recommend you to this video right here,
which will help make sure the algorithm stops hating you.