how to upload your music videos to youtube tutorial videographers don't you hate it when
you send the video to the artist and then they post the video and there's no description no tags
it's not optimized so you know it's not going to get the views it deserves
artists don't you want to get more views don't you want people to actually find your videos
don't you hate it when you have a thumbnail that isn't a good like you know the picture
that comes up you can customize all that i've shot over 400 music videos so there's lots of
music videos floating around there that could be optimized better so many artists have hit me up
and asked how they should upload their music videos to youtube so boom this tutorial right
here is for all of you guys how to upload your music videos to youtube tutorial coming right up
what's up everyone my name is Cracka Lack welcome back to cracka lack tv if you're new to the
channel i used to be an artist myself over a span of like eight years i put out over 16 projects did
lots of shows things like that during that time i was making my own beats recording mixing mastering
my own songs learn how to shoot music videos i found that being a music artist wasn't for me
and i really enjoyed doing all of those behind the scenes things so for the last 10 plus years i've
made a full-time living doing all of the behind the scenes music entrepreneur stuff so i document
my journey on this channel and i also teach you guys how to do the things that i do along the way
so if any of that sounds interesting to you make sure you subscribe and hit the bell to be notified
so you don't miss any more of this good content coming your way but in this video i'm going to
show you guys how to upload your music videos to youtube so yeah i've shot over 400 music videos in
the beginning i would say the first half of them i was actually uploading all the music videos to my
own channel like this car collect tv i discovered like with the youtube algorithm first off
any artist watching this you should definitely have your own youtube channel how youtube works is
when they find something they like let's say they find your music video if they want more of that if
they enjoy you if they're a fan of you when they hit subscribe they should only be getting notified
for more of you for more of that and what happens is with my channel i was posting all of my clients
music videos i was also documenting my own journey posting minusing vlogs beat making videos and
there was such a big variety of content that when i would be posting new videos i'd have a lot of
subscribers with a very low average view count and so yeah as an artist you should be establishing
yourself and building your own music foundation your own headquarters your own youtube channel
but with that one thing that i notice all the time is the whole seo if you don't know seo means
it's search engine optimization and so there's a reason why you should put the title for your
youtube videos fill out a thorough description and then also add tags all right so right now
from start to finish i'm actually going to upload a music video the artist is gq i shot his music
video out in la i have a vlog showing the behind the scenes process shooting this music video on my
channel i'll put a link to that in the description and pop up on the screen right there so if you're
interested in checking that out make sure you watch but step one okay click create upload video
select the file you're gonna find the file okay so now the music video is uploading you're gonna see
his name the name of the song but you would obviously put i'm gonna show you your name name of
the [ __ ] song there you go all right and then this is where you would put the brackets and do
like official music video sometimes it's cool um the artist though also put like produced by
cracka lack um but the main thing that you want to for sure have is your name the name of the song if
it's featuring someone it would be like all or nothing featuring cracka lack if i was on the
song so that's simple i and again this part right here isn't messed up too much usually people get
this part down right now for the description the description shows up next to the videos in search
maybe the first one to two sentences when people search for a video i'll show you real quick let's
say right here we searched lil wayne see this right here we can see that first like sentence
or two the first sentence or two for a sentence or two and let's go to an example this is jack harlow
one of the biggest songs in the world what does he have in his description i'ma click show more
always give credit always give credit don't be one of them guys that don't credit the producer
who shot the video even the studio engineer that record makes me master the song like give all the
credit in the description you want people proud to share your new music video because that's like the
final product of all the hard work that went into it the guy that made the bee um if someone else
wrote the song whoever recorded mixed master the song give all the credit in the description okay
and then i think it's also good and it helps with the seo to start off the description with the
same keywords of like your name the name of the song so what i like to do i would put g q all or
nothing i don't know who made the beat so i got to leave that blank i don't know who recorded make
semester this song so i'm going to leave that blank i'm going to go down and then this you
should always link to your spotify if you want to go above and beyond and i have a tutorial showing
this on my channel but it's smart url tutorial aha there it is you should make one of these
so you should watch this video and make a smart url for your song i'll put this tutorial at the
end of this video so you can watch that make your smart url and then put that in the description of
the video for right now we'll keep it simple we'll put like gq contact info and i'm gonna go to his i
don't know if he has an artist's facebook page but you would put like a link to your facebook page
a link to your instagram your twitter if you want to put a booking email this is where you
put all of that stuff in the description for every single video every time you upload all right so i
got his instagram i'm gonna copy it paste it gq music gmail.com so i'm in the middle there we're
gonna give some credit to me this video was directed filmed and edited by Cracka Lack now
this sentence right here i send to every client that i shoot music videos for and i ask them to
please copy and paste this and put this in the description of your videos i would say about 20 of
the time they do so to the one out of five of you i [ __ ] with you to the other four out of five
no i'm joking but seriously start doing this now now you have this tutorial to watch and
know how to do it now with youtube videos you can have three hashtags how do you add
the hashtags you just put them somewhere in the description i like to put them at the very bottom
and this would be like hashtag you know your name you could maybe do the name of the song
but i would definitely do your name that's kind of it if it's part of like a trend let's say there's
some sort of like rap challenge going around and it's the hashtag ten toes down challenge
you would you would in the description put ten toes down challenge and then now this video will
show up where people can actually put that hashtag you'll show up in the search for that but that's
good for now when the video gets done uploading you see it's got nine minutes left it's gonna
randomly select three different pictures to be the thumbnail for the music video your thumbnail
is important let's say you have a featured artist on the song and you paid for this featured artist
you want to make sure the thumbnail shows you and the featured artist for example let's say you did
a song with drake let's say in the middle of the video there's a scene where you guys are together
and maybe it shows you guys side by side like boom right there is what you want the thumbnail to be
i don't want to overload you guys with too much but you can go to tube buddy click here if you're
interested in youtube definitely i should sign up for an affiliate thing but this is all free so you
download it for free and what it'll do is it'll allow you it'll help you do this part of the the
boring nerd geeky seo part of youtube it'll help you out with that and give you suggestions to make
it even better and also with that when the video is done you'll be able to click a button right
here and it'll allow you to create a thumbnail and you'll be able to choose a point in the music
video where you can just pause it and then click save and it'll save that as the thumbnail another
option would be to just play the music video whether it's from your phone or from the computer
pause it at the point of the music video that you want to be the thumbnail and then just screenshot
that and then you would click upload and put the picture there another thing is just to ask
the videographer would you also please send me a thumbnail to put on youtube and he should have no
problem doing that is the video made for kids they got in all this uh copper trouble just i know it's
not made for kids click more options now we go to tags tags is where i see so many artists slip
up tags is what people search to find your video so let's say you made a song about depression and
it's a rap song it would be a good idea for the tags to put depression rap songs depression rap
songs 20 20. you could do new depression rap songs so many times people they'll put new music 2020
that means you're competing for people searching new not people searching new rap songs or new rap
music you have to include all of those words in your tag definitely start it off with your artist
name gq and then you do comma that entered the tags now the name of the song is all or
nothing i know he has sacred totem brand another good idea for the tags is to include like notable
lyrics from the song that people might just think of if someone heard your song and then they went
on youtube to find it what are different things that they would search to find it it might even be
white bald guy in truck music video and if you put that as a tag your video will actually be
able to show up if someone search that tags are things that describe your music video it's not
a good idea to put a relevant tags because then you'll rank bad and it'll actually hurt your seo
for the music video let's say you were gonna do like people searching lil wayne what that means
is if your video was to ever show up and compete with lolan's real music videos they're not going
to click on yours because they know it's it's not lil wayne so then it'll give it a bad ctr which is
a click-through rate and it'll hurt your video's performance for the future so you just want to do
actual tags that describe your video i shot the music video so you could put cracka lack
in there this was a la music video new rap songs 2020 new rap music 2020 and that should be good
category i think when you first make a youtube channel by default it'll have your channel as
people and blogs if you're uploading music videos definitely not people in blogs you want to change
that to music always that's good for this part let's hit next hit next again i think it's good to
upload your videos to private so that way they can at least get done you can look them over and edit
anything before it actually goes live in public on youtube save now we're gonna wait for this music
video to get done and then go from there all right so back to it the music video is 100 done now i'm
gonna hit edit the details then as you see these are the three thumbnails and you know that's not
maybe the best part of the video that's a pretty cool one right there to be honest so you can pick
the best of the three that's the easiest option or you can actually upload one all right so i've
already downloaded tubebuddy again it's free i'm gonna click right here to sign in sign in with
youtube it's gonna say leave select his account oh sh they're gonna send you a six digit card i
gotta hit him up right now to like tell me what it is and we're back these told me to take some bags
thanks ham i just emptied your bank account or something all right next and we're in there bam
again allow two buddy sounds like a porn site see this is the option right here tubebuddy remember
again it's free and it'll give you this button now let's say we didn't like any of these three you
can click create thumbnail a still frame from the video now it's going to play the video and we can
literally just pause it at the part we want to be the thumbnail which i think is kind of like right
yeah yeah so let's say right here i want this to be the thumbnail hit continue continue it'll show
you what it'll look like in the search results save and publish click ok click x now you can
see the thumbnails new over there now you see some new stuff it'll recommend some tags those
aren't really helpful end screen this is important with uploading videos end screen is when you get
to the end of the video and you can see elements pop up on the screen where it might have subscribe
you might want to show them your newest music video things like that so you click end screen
it'll give you these options do you want to show them one video plus subscribe
and the easiest thing you could do is you could just choose most recent upload so that way we
make the end screen here today and let's say two years from now you don't have to go back
and edit all of your end screens this video today two years from now we'll be promoting
whatever your newest music video is in the future so you could just leave it at your most recent
video and then also it'll help drive traffic from people watching all of your old videos
to whatever your newest video is and then we click save all right so we save it now we're
going to make the video live i'm going to change it from private to public hit done now once i hit
save this video is live on the internet it's going to get millions of views i'm going to click on it
always give your own video a thumbs up look at that we got one view one thumbs up that's
great engagement that's a great engagement right you want as many comments as you can get so the
easiest way to get more comments on your videos is reply to every single comment you get right
so now you have let's say 10 people comment on your videos you reply to every comment now your
video has 20 comments a trick is to ask people a question in your reply to every comment so then
they're going to reply again and you can just keep going back and forth start a damn conversation
under your video so now it's all of this is engagement that's signals to youtube that this
video is getting good engagement and to show it and recommend it to more people what you want is
your video to show up on this sidebar right here next to other music videos i always recommend
pending the comment painting the comment would be let's say you want to promote that smart url
that you're going to do after you watch this video and you go watch the other tutorial on how to make
the smart url you'll put that smart url link right here and then you'd have your link right here
what i'm going gonna do is since he hasn't made the smart url yet i'm gonna go to his
spotify search his name gq pull it up i'm gonna copy the artist page i know
we'll actually copy the link to the song copy song link go back here paste it right there comment it
we're going to like our own comment heart our own comment and then hit these little three dots to
pin the comment you can have one pin comment for every video and there you go this is set another
step forward would be go to your channel going to go to customize channel and we want to show
this brand new music video to anyone that goes to our channel so right here it says channel
trailer for people who haven't subscribed we're going to click add the brand new music video
all right now we want to feature a video for all of our returning subscribers click add
boom brand new music video we're gonna hit publish we go to the channel boom look what's playing
right away the new music video it's got four views already we might have gave it four views
ourselves already this is all good stuff all right you guys so this has been how
to upload your music videos to youtube again the smart url comes in handy because you don't
want to paste a million links in the description where it says purchase on itunes click here listen
to it on spotify click here listen to it on this platform click here you have a million different
links you could just have one link and it'll take a person to this landing page where they can click
which platform they want to go to and the smart url will do that for you so go check that video
out next thank you for watching this video i'll see you guys next video Cracka Lack tv we out