-Hey, guys.
What's up?
My name is Tim Schmoyer.
And like you, I use a lot of different tools and apps
and programs to build my audience and my channel here.
I actually talked to several other creators
and asked them what are your favorite tools and apps
and programs that you use for audience development
here on YouTube.
And I want to share some of them with you here and then also
share with you my favorite one coming up at the end.
-One of the tools that I just started using was gleam.io.
What it allows me to do is create
a contest for my subscribers to check out and in exchange
for Likes on Facebook and tweets or retweeting my videos,
watching some of my videos, they can
gain entries to win a contest.
And in exchange for that, I can offer them a prize.
And what's good about it is that it helps
me build my social audience.
And it's a good way to boost traffic directly
to all your other social platforms
by offering up a different prize depending
on what your channel is and what you can offer.
-I love the Tubular Labs app.
And they just released a new feature too
where when somebody tweets about your video,
Tubular Labs will alert you of it.
So I think it's really fun to find people
who are tweeting your video and then going and thanking
them, following them.
And I think it helps create a community a little bit better.
So it's great.
It's great for helping find top fans.
Tubular Labs app also will show you
people who are frequently commenting on your videos
and kind of sorts them in order of how engaged they are.
So it's kind of similar to YouTube's top fan
finder, as well.
But I think it goes into a little more detail.
And then another app I like to use quite a lot is vidIQ.
I love going to look at other videos that
might be kind of similar to videos I create, see what
they're doing as far as for tags, for how many views
they're getting compared to how many comments, how many likes,
and then looking to see did they ask for likes
at the end of the video.
Did that seem to make a difference in how many likes
they got compared to other similar videos?
So I love looking at numbers.
I'm pretty dorky like that.
-My favorite tools and apps as a creator on YouTube
is Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook.
I'm also a part of a Minnesota page
called VinMin in Minnesota.
And there multiple people in Minnesota share their videos,
share their ideas, talk, communicate.
It's a great, great opportunity for me
to speak to people that live in the same area as me.
And it's wonderful for me to be able to connect with them.
-Probably my favorite tool right now is Social Blade, VidStatsX.
I'm a big data guy.
So I'm always looking at my YouTube analytics.
So to have a different flavor of that
and have a way to compare my channel to others to kind
of measure how well I'm doing.
Because I might think I'm doing great,
but in comparison to other channels
my size, my similar content.
So those are definitely the two best things for me.
Other than that, the YouTube Creator Studio app
is my favorite app right now.
On my phone, on my tablet I'm constantly
pulling it up, looking at real time views,
replying to comments, and that sort of thing.
It gives me that deep dive anywhere I'm at.
-There's a lot of great tools recommended here, guys.
I will put links to all of them in the description
below the video so you can easily go and check them
all out.
One of the ones that I use the most here at Video Creators
is one I actually talked about last week.
And that is MailChimp.
MailChimp is simply a site that lets you use a really
robust email campaign service.
One of the reasons why that is a very valuable tool for me
and my audience development here on YouTube,
as I discussed last week, I offer a free ebook
to all of you guys who simply sign up for my email.
It's called "The Secret to Building Your YouTube
Audience."
And you get that book for free in exchange
for giving me your email address.
And then every week I just send out
really high, valuable content that-- well, I
think it's valuable anyway-- to you guys who are on that list.
And so I love offering a lot of training and advice and tips
and ideas and suggestions and things that don't really
fit on this channel, but I can send you guys in a weekly email
to continue helping you guys grow
your audiences and your YouTube channels
even if you're not actively checking your YouTube
subscriptions.
MailChimp is the business service
I use for growing that list, for sending out those email
campaigns, and all that.
So check them out.
There's a link below.
Of course, if you want my free ebook,
there's a link to it in the description below.
You can go check it out.
I'd love to hear from you guys, though
in the comments below right here on YouTube.
What are some of your favorite tools and apps for audience
growth and development here?
Tell us the name of the app or the program or the website
and tell us why you like it, and also, third, how you use it.
The rest of you guys, make sure you go down there
and check out all the great tools and apps other people
are talking about here.
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And I'll see you guys then.
Bye.