- I'm gonna tell you 10 free tools for YouTubers
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My name is Nick.
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So, real quick, I want to let you know
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These are all of the things that when people
on my live streams are asking me,
"Hey, Nick, what is that I use for this particular thing?"
These are the things that I'm always pointing people to.
If there is anything that you recommend
that is not on this list, make sure that you leave
it down on the comments below to help other people
that are gonna watch this video.
I also want to mention that if you are a regular viewer
here on the channel, there's somethings on this list
that you may know about and I've also got some new stuff
on here that I've never mentioned on my channel before.
So, don't go anywhere yet.
Number one on this list is for making thumbnails
because a lot of people are like,
"Hey, I want to make awesome thumbnails
"but I don't know Photoshop.
"I don't know how to use all this fancy software.
"Help me make something simple."
Canva.com is that simple tool that you can use
to make awesome thumbnails that are nice and classy
and they're not cluttered and they look really good.
Now, Canva has tons of really cool templates for free.
If you want, you can pay just a little bit more
and then that's gonna open you up to even more templates,
more fonts, more additional things that you can use.
But, really just starting out with a free version
is definitely going to get you covered.
Next up on the list is the Creator Studio app by YouTube.
You put this in your phone and it allows you
to do comments on the run.
If you have to make any changes to your metadata,
your title description or anything,
you can do it all on your phone
using the YouTube Creator Studio app.
Creator Studio is the official name
for it now when you're looking.
But, here's a really cool thing about it.
It's gonna let you manage your comments on the go.
Instead of having to go into the YouTube app
and actually go into each video to see the comments
that you have, inside of the Creator Studio,
it groups everything together.
So, if you have a video that you made three years ago
and it just got a comment on it,
you're gonna know about it.
If you have a video that you made an hour ago
and just got comments on that,
it's also gonna be mixed in there.
So, it's mixing all of the comments
from all of your videos together
so you have one central place
where you can manage your community comments.
You can also see your stats in there, which is a big plus.
I'm a big fan of keeping an eye
on my 48-hour realtime stats.
It's just an obsession that I have.
But, it's important that you know one bad part
about the Creator Studio app is don't get dependent
on that solely for your stats because the stats are limited.
In order to get the real deep stuff,
you're gonna have to log in from a computer.
Next up on the list is the Monday app.
Now, Monday just got introduced to me recently
and I am absolutely loving it.
It's free to use.
They have a content calendar template in there.
But, you can add all these additional notes to it
to make it really personalized to make sure
that everything works around how you like to do things.
I'm obsessed with this thing right now.
Now, Monday is free is you are using it.
But as soon as you go to add somebody else to it,
like, let's say that you have a friend
or you have somebody in your team
that you're trying to give access to
so that they can see what's going on with your content,
when things are gonna need to be released and so on,
then you're gonna have to pay in order
to actually give them access to the app
or to the desktop version.
Next up on the list, because I get asked about it
all of the time, is the YouTube audio library.
People are always asking me,
"Hey, Nick, where do I get free music for my videos?
"Where do I get music that I don't have
"to worry about copyright headaches for free?"
Well, that free place is the YouTube audio library.
It's all done by YouTube.
It's all managed by YouTube.
But, just keep in mind the only drawback from this
is that some of the songs in there do require credit.
So, make sure that if you go in there
that you are either, one,
picking songs that don't require credit
or, two, you are giving the proper credit when necessary.
But, either way, it's free.
Next on the list is Snapseed.
Now, thumbnails are crazy important on YouTube.
They are so important.
It's so important to make sure
that you are having thumbnails
that are vibrant in color, that you have contrast,
that you have, that you just make 'em pop, right?
That you make 'em look good.
Having doll photos and things like that
just aren't cutting it on YouTube anymore.
Snapseed is gonna allow you to fix that problem
by making your thumbnails quickly and easily awesome.
My brother, Dee, actually made an entire video
about how to use Snapseed
to really make things look awesome.
I'll put a link to that right up here
at the top of the screen.
Next on the list is the free version of TubeBuddy.
If you're not a TubeBuddy user yet,
TubeBuddy is the number one browser plugin
for YouTube content creators.
It can help you learn how to get views.
It can help you learn how to rank your video.
It can help you manage your channel
and all types of really awesome stuff.
But, they have a free version.
It's limited but it's a free version
and I highly recommend that you pick it up.
I've got a link down in the description below
so you can test out TubeBuddy for yourself
to see the features that it has and what I can do for you.
Google Docs.
Now, look, Google Docs is super underrated.
For me, personally, if I'm on my phone
then I'll use Google Docs.
If I'm on my computer, I use Google Docs.
If I'm on my tablet, I'll use Google Docs
because I'm mixing up PCs with Apple devices.
So, because of that, the workflow gets a little bit weird
but Google Docs helps me fix that problem
by keeping everything in the cloud with Google.
You know, I just went into the other room
to grab some tin foil to make a hat out of
because of what I just said.
But, this is all I could find.
It's plastic wrap.
I'm just not gonna do it.
But, anyway, Google Docs is awesome.
Now, if you are mixing PC stuff with Mac stuff,
then what you can do is you can also have your Google Doc
and then you can open up your iCloud on your computer
to where you just copy in your Google Doc
into your iCloud and then it's gonna sync up
to your device.
Then, once it's synced up to your device,
then you can pass it on to your other device
in order to be able to sit there
and see the bullet points that you wrote out or whatever.
It's a little bit of a long way around, so to speak,
but it gets the job done.
Streamlab's OBS is another free tool.
This one's for live streaming and it is absolutely amazing.
I make a lot of videos about Streamlabs
here on this channel.
I'll actually put a link right up here
to a playlist of Streamlab's videos.
But, it's incredible, all of the things
that you can do, all of the features that are built into it
to help you make your live streams awesome
and to do it easy.
Now, just like everybody else, of course,
they do have some pro features.
So, if you do want to upgrade,
the option is definitely there for those
but you can just use the base free version
and you'll be fine.
It's just, it's incredible.
You gotta give it a shot.
Now, if you want to take that whole thing up a notch,
another tool that is awesome, 'cause I get tons
of people asking me, "Hey, Nick, what should I use
"to stream on my phone?"
If you are using the YouTube app in order
to stream on your phone, it gets the job done.
But if you want to have chat on there
and you want to have the subscriber alerts
and all that stuff just like desktop streams do,
then your solution for that
is definitely the Streamlab's mobile app.
I made an entire app on the Streamlab's mobile app
so you can see how cool it is.
I'll put a link to it right up here
so you can go check it out if you're interested.
Now, you're probably gonna beat me up for this next one
just because you're gonna be like,
"Hey, Nick, it's not a tool," and whatever.
But, in reality, it is a tool.
It's an educational tool.
It's the YouTube Creator Academy.
It's also free.
But, basically, what it is, it's created by YouTube
and it tells you the ins and outs of what they expect
for you here on YouTube.
How to actually do all of the stuff that's gonna help you
get views and subscribers here on YouTube.
If you really want to get things cooking here
on YouTube, it's important that you understand the platform
that you're trying to succeed on.
Now, the most important tool on this list
is YouTube Analytics.
The reason this is so important is because,
just like the Creator Academy,
if you're gonna be on this platform
and you're gonna be trying to figure out
how to get success here on YouTube,
well, you gotta learn how to use the analytics.
You gotta learn what's working,
what's not working, what you can do,
what you shouldn't do and all that
based on how your audience is responding to things.
If you're not arming yourself with that information,
then you're doing a disservice to yourself.
So, get into your YouTube Analytics.
Learn how all of this stuff works.
I've got a video that's gonna be coming out
on the analytics, some of the most important things
that you need to keep an eye on.
So, keep an eye out for that, of course.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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