Here’s how you can add a YouTube info card QUICKLY and EASILY to all of your YouTube videos.
(TubeBuddy Tips & Tricks)
Hello TubeBuddies! Adding YouTube info cards is a GREAT way to help your existing content while
using a YouTube recommended feature. With our Star Bulk Copy Cards tool, you can EASILY add cards to
all of your YouTube videos, and help your videos earn more views. If you don’t know what cards are,
don’t worry! We already have a video on how you can add YouTube info cards on screen,
and you can check it out using that card... huh, a card being used in a video about cards. See?
They’re pretty useful! Anyway, once you watch that video, be sure to come back to this video
so you can learn how to bulk copy cards to all of your YouTube videos with TubeBuddy.
Speaking of TubeBuddy, click the TubeBuddy drop-down menu,
and then select videos to be taken to the channel videos page.
Here’s where you’ll see our bulk features, which you get with the TubeBuddy star level. If
you’ve never had a free trial of TubeBuddy, keep watching until the end to learn how to get one.
Moving on, under bulk cards, you’ll have three options: Copy, update, and delete.
Copy cards allow you to copy cards either from a card template or from a recent video and
apply that card/cards to all of your videos. The update cards option will replace the card's URL,
Title, Teaser Text, or Call To action to something newer.
Finally, delete cards lets you delete all cards based on your choice;
only delete cards with a certain URL, or cards that contain a certain teaser text.
The copy, update, and delete options in bulk is one reason why we have this screen when
you first install TubeBuddy. It’s so that we can make the changes that you request. Again we won’t
change anything that you don’t tell us to do! If you want more information about that screen,
be sure to check out that card on this screen…. Huh, 2 cards out of 5! How many can we put in one
video…? … Well it’s limited to five, but I think that was supposed to be more of a joke… got it….
Heading back to the copy option, copy cards can be VERY useful to add cards quickly and easily
to your videos. If you have made a card template for your average video duration drop off point,
then you can add a card to that spot across your videos.
This lets your card recommend another piece of YOUR content before a viewer leaves the video,
giving you another chance to earn more views.
To find your average view duration, click on analytics on the left-hand side. Once in
analytics, select your analytic date range. We’ll choose the last 90 days-- however,
if you’re a newer channel and don’t have this much data, choose the highest date range available to
you. From here, click on engagement, and you will see your average view duration. With that in mind,
you can create a card at this time in a video and then bulk add it to all of your videos.
Now that we know on average where people stop watching our videos
let’s go ahead and bulk add a card there. On the channel videos page once more,
we’ll select copy under bulk cards. We’re going to choose our updated card template for AVD,
BUT if you notice under that, you can have a card template that links to your store
or merch page. This can be useful to help you earn more MONEY using your videos. Keep in mind though
to add a card to your website, it has to match the official website that YOU select on YouTube.
Speaking of selecting on step 1 of bulk copy cards, we’ll choose our AVD template,
and then hit continue. Step 2 is to click on the cards you WANT to copy to all of your videos.
In our template, we only have one so we’ll leave it selected,
but here is a screenshot on how this would look with multiple cards. Once you’re done with step 2,
we’ll continue to step 3. Step three covers which videos you want to copy the selected cards to.
You can choose to see a full list of all your videos or load an amount you select under it.
This is how you can add a card to ALL of your videos, but maybe you don’t want to do that.
Maybe you only want to add it to 3 specific videos. Here we’ll show you how to do this.
You can copy their ID’s at the end of the video url,
like so. For multiple videos, be sure to add a comma between the video IDs.
You could add this card to all videos within one of your playlists. All you have to do is
copy and paste your playlist link here. Finally, we show a list of videos that match the search
phrase you enter below. Let’s say we want to target all the free tool videos with this card;
this would show all of the free tool videos by entering the search phrase.
Speaking of all videos, for THIS video, we’ll select to see TubeBuddy’s full list of videos.
This takes us into step 4: selecting the specific videos to add cards to. On this step, we now offer
filtering options in the top right-hand corner: show all videos, only public videos, only unlisted
videos, only private videos, public and unlisted videos, and finally, private and unlisted videos.
We’re going to choose only public videos. However, you might decide to bulk copy cards to private
and unlisted videos if you have a Patreon or you’re a part of YouTube membership program.
The reason you’d add cards here is to keep your older patron/membership videos up to date with
newer information, so if someone pays to support you, you can show them your newer videos easier.
Speaking of easier, if you want to customize the card teaser for each video, you can select
customize here to EASILY customize each card per video it’s shown on. Once you’re happy with how
your cards are looking, you can select all by clicking All here. Above that, you can see how
many videos you’re adding cards to. Under this is none, and this lets you deselect all the videos.
Although since we want to add cards to all videos, we will select all again and then hit continue.
This takes you to the final screen before copying. It verifies that Yes,
you want to continue to bulk copying. It also gives you additional options
to Delete all existing cards from destination videos before copying,
the ability to convert placeholders into URLs, skip videos that already have card element.
Since we have hundreds of videos with cards already, we’re going to choose to skip videos
that already have card elements and only will add cards to videos without. Now, let’s start bulk
copying. Here you can see my cards being added to the videos one by one. The more videos you have,
the longer this tends to take 6, but this process can save
you HOURS to DAYS depending on the number of videos you have.
Are you adding cards right before when viewers stop watching your videos?
Let us know in those comments down below! Do you want to learn about that TubeBuddy free
trial we talked about earlier? Check out that video that’s been on screen.
I’m Andrew Kan from TubeBuddy, now go out and add cards in bulk to all of your YouTube videos!