- Does this sound familiar?
"I'm doing everything right,
but I can't grow fast.
And YouTube seems to hate me."
If you answered yes, this video is for you.
Hi, TubeBuddies.
I'm Shelly Nathan,
the video manager and product expert here at TubeBuddy.
More often than not,
we as creators get so excited to release a video
that we often miss key steps along the way.
Now it's been said that fundamentals
are the building blocks of fun.
So let's go ahead and take a couple of minutes
to go through your upload process,
so it becomes a checklist for success.
If you've ever gone through any of the
YouTube Creator Academy classes,
then you might have seen that there are some general
best practices when uploading videos.
We've taken a bunch of those general best practices
and thrown them into a checklist for you.
And not only that, it's easily accessible through the
tubebuddy.com website,
which you can launch straight
from the TubeBuddy drop down main user interface.
This is a great way to ensure
that you're hitting all of the important steps
that YouTube themselves have provided information about.
So that you can make sure that your videos
are set up for success.
One of the best parts about this list
is that it is actually customizable and editable.
If you would like to add items or take them away,
you can do that inside of our website.
Now while having a best practices list is wonderful.
If you're the type of person
who loves to check off that box on a to-do list,
we've got something even better
and that is going to be the upload checklist.
Here at TubeBuddy, we've curated a great list
to get you started.
But if you've ever looked around on YouTube
and seen some of our favorite YouTube experts,
such as Derral Eves, or Roberto Blake,
Owen Hemsath, and so many more,
we actually have partnered with many of them
and a lot of people don't know that this exists.
So I want to let you in on the secret,
is that we have upload checklists
from all of these creators.
So you can replace the TubeBuddy ones
with ones from your favorite YouTube educator
and apply it to all of your own videos
and read what they have to say about the upload process.
Homework item for you is to take a look
at all of the different upload checklists
that we have and comment your favorite.
If you're managing your YouTube channel from your phone
and using the TubeBuddy mobile app,
we even have our upload checklist available to you there.
And to take it a step further,
you can even email yourself a report
on how well you're doing from that checklist.
Now the best practices audit and the upload checklist
from the launchpad are great ways to ensure
that you're hitting all the high points that you should,
and that YouTube is recommending before you hit publish.
But what about after your video goes live?
This is where the opportunity report inside of TubeBuddy
is going to come in super handy for you.
Not only is it going to scan and look against
all of those best practices and upload checklist,
it's going to let you know if there are things
that were missing or perhaps even better.
I love this feature myself.
There is this great social share mentions.
So you can go onto Twitter and you can see all of the people
who are talking about your video,
drop them a like, give them a retweet,
and thank them for engaging with your video.
This is such a great opportunity to get people talking
about your video and sharing it with more people.
The opportunity report will also scan
for any unanswered comments that are left on your channel
so that you can go straight to the comment section
and respond to them,
which will drive more engagement on your video.
And speaking of comments,
want to go ahead and just share one on screen here.
If you would like your comment to be featured
in an upcoming video,
then respond on our community posts or on our videos
for a chance to be featured on screen.
To get the full benefits of the opportunity to report,
it's usually best to wait around two days
from your last published video
so that it has data to pull from.
And one of the best things is you can also configure
an email to be sent for all of your opportunity reports
for any of your videos that you upload.
You can configure this in settings in the website,
which is an amazing way to get an automatic email
so you know what to go back and engage with
on your latest videos.
Another thing that's customizable here,
is you can actually have your own custom number
for audience retention warning metrics.
That means if it fluctuates past a certain point,
you'll actually get alerted of that
and know how your video is performing.
Now I'd love to know,
did you go through all of these checklists
and see if there's anything
that you might be adding to yours
or steps that you might have missed
in your last upload process?
Comment it down below.
And if you've never run an opportunity report
on any of your previous uploads,
I would highly encourage you to do that
and see if there aren't any opportunities found
that could help you get your videos seen by more people.
Now, if you've gone through everything on that checklist,
as well as the opportunity report and said,
"Shelly, there's nothing that I missed.
I did it all and I'm still not getting the watch hours
that I think I deserve."
Then I want you to come back next week
because I will be hitting you with a whole bunch of tips
on how you can get to your 4,000 hours
if you're trying to get monetized.
And so that you can get more watch time on your channel.
Thank you so much for hanging out with us, TubeBuddies.
We'll see you next time. Bye.