- If you're a new YouTube content creator,
or maybe you're just somebody who's trying
to get their head around what YouTube's best practices are,
and you find yourself asking questions like
what are the best keywords for my video?
Are people even watching my videos?
How long do they actually watch the videos?
What's the easiest way to reply to all my comments?
Or maybe you're just trying to figure out how you
can keep track of how many watch hours you actually have,
so you can submit your channel to be monetized.
If you find yourself in one of those categories
and you've asked some of those questions,
then you'll wanna watch this video
because I have three awesome apps for you today,
that are gonna answer a lot of your questions
and help you navigate the YouTube minefield
as you start on this awesome journey.
But first, let me introduce myself.
My name is Dee Nimmin,
and you're watching the Master Your Mobile video series
where I help you take your mobile device
and turn it into a pocket sized production studio,
and so much more.
So if you're ready to go and jump into the first app,
we're gonna open up YT Tracker, which is YouTube tracker.
Now this is for everybody who is not yet reached their goals
for monetization, and you're wondering
how you can keep up with it without having to look
and figure out how many minutes, and convert them to hours.
This app is really easy,
it's super basic, you just open it up,
and it tells you how many subscribers you have,
and it tells you how much watch time you have in hours.
That's what it does, it's a super simple app,
it does exactly what it claims to do,
and it kinda takes the mystery away
of how close you are to reaching your goals.
And as you can see, I have quite a ways to go myself
before I hit my 4,000 hours of watch time.
4,000 hours of watch time.
The next app we're gonna look at is the TubeBuddy app.
If you don't have it on your browser
and you don't have it on your phone,
or maybe you've never heard of it, again,
I'm putting a link down in the description below,
you can put it in your phone
and you can put it on your desktop,
and at the time of recording this video,
the Android release is getting ready to come out any day.
It's in beta testing right now,
I do have it on my Android, and it's awesome.
I can't wait for you guys to have it.
So when you open TubeBuddy for the first time,
it's gonna ask you to sign in using your Google account.
You wanna sign in using the account
that's attached to your YouTube account.
And right away, the first thing you're gonna notice
is your live subscriber count.
Now I really love this, I like logging in after a while,
and you see the ticker go, and you see the people add up.
It'll also tell ya how many people have left,
if anybody's left, and how many you've gained
since the last time you opened the app.
You're also gonna see your recent uploads,
as well as the view count, how many comments you have,
thumbs up, thumbs down, and so on.
You get over and tap on one of the videos,
and it's gonna open up your best practice checks.
What this basically does is tell you
what things you're doing right, and what you're missing.
It's gonna give you a green check
for everything that you've done,
and a red exclamation point for everything
that you need to do.
Now you'll see here on this video,
there's a couple things that I didn't do.
I need to add more tags to my description,
I need to add captions, I need to add it to a playlist,
and I need to get a like on Facebook.
Now everything in green are the things that I've done right.
Another get feature of TubeBuddy
is you can tap on the tag icon,
and it's gonna take you over to the tags
and the keywords phrases that you have on your video,
and it's gonna show you where you're actually ranking
in YouTube at the moment.
Now this is an ever changing number that it shows here,
so for example, I might be number three for this now,
but tomorrow it might totally change.
So you can also go into the suggest,
and it can suggest keywords and tags for you.
So as you can see here, it's suggesting tags
that I might want to put in my description,
so if I add them, I can copy them to the clipboard,
to the tag list, or I can add them right into my video.
I can also explore other tag options.
It will also tell me if the topic gets an average
very low or great tag to add to my video.
Now there are a lot of cool features
inside the TubeBuddy app, as well as the desktop plugin,
and I can't get into all of them today.
However, I am gonna show you one of my favorites,
which is the topic planner.
Now with the topic planner, it's kinda like a notepad,
however, it keeps everything synced with your desktop.
So I can be at a cafe, I can open up a video idea,
I can make my notes, save it, and then when I go back home,
it's gonna be ready for me sitting at my desktop
when I want to work on it there,
and I think that is a fantastic feature.
Now before I move on to the next app,
I wanna let you know that I'm really curious
to hear about what apps you're using
to manage your YouTube channel,
as well as to make content with,
so make sure you go down, leave a comment,
and let me know what your favorite apps are.
So let's move on to the last app,
which is the YouTube Studio app.
Now I mentioned the YouTube Studio app in my previous video,
but I didn't go into too many details.
And if you don't have this on your phone yet,
download this today and put it on your phone.
You'll thank me later.
Now when you open YouTube Studio,
you're gonna land on the dashboard.
This is a general overview of your channel and your videos.
What I like to do is scroll down,
I like to see if there's any recent comments,
I like to see how my videos are doing,
I like to see my watch time in minutes,
however, I prefer it in hours with the YouTube Tracker.
You have the subscriber change,
your total amount of views, and so on.
One of my favorite features of the YouTube Studio app
is the ability to reply to all of my comments quickly.
You can give 'em a heart, you can give 'em a thumbs up.
For example, let's find somebody,
crypto cruising says "it seems to be getting better
"with every upload, great info as usual mate cheers."
I'm gonna like it, I'm gonna give it a thumbs up too.
That's a really nice thing to say,
I'm gonna give 'em a comment, hey, thanks for watching.
Thanks for watching, and,
continued support, boom thumbs.
It's that easy,
I answer every single one of my YouTube comments
right here on YouTube Studio app.
Now moving on to the most powerful part
of the YouTuber Studio app, that's gonna be analytics.
Now inside the analytics,
this is where all of your questions get answered.
It's gonna tell you your watch time,
it's gonna show you where people stop watching,
where they fall off, and it's gonna present it
in a nice, easy to understand graph.
So you can see when your video starts,
and you can see where they fall off the most.
So you can go it, and it tells you to the minute.
So you can go in, and look to see exactly
what did I do in this video
to make all of these people leave.
And you can try to work on that for future videos
so you don't lose so many people next time.
This is a really powerful, powerful app.
And those are my top three apps
for new YouTube content creators.
Of course, this isn't the end all, be all app list.
I'm gonna put a ton of apps that you might want to look at
down in the description below,
as well as a cool bonus app for online streamers and gamers.
And of course, thank you so much for watching,
I appreciate it.
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