hello I'm Wanderer001 and this is my review of Tubebuddy star in the past
I have done a review a review of Tubebuddy free and pro I will link to the
playlist in the upper right hand corner for the longest time I did use Tubebuddy
Pro and shortly well not shortly a year ago I did
upgrade to the pro version finally paying for Tubebuddy which is an awesome
tool regardless of if you pay for it or not
but at the end of last year I upgrade it to the star because there were certain
features that I wanted that star offered that I did not get with pro for 99.99%
of people I think Pro will be enough for starting out if you need to upgrade from
the free star what you get with star and that's why I'm starting this on this
checklist here star starts to bring in a lot of the bulk items so having things
done across all of your videos so if you don't have a lot of videos it's not
terrible but once you start getting a decent amount of videos I think up to
like 250 videos currently I've had to do some things and I'm going to explain why
I decided star is worth the money so starting off here well legend over
here is for like bigger bigger channels I'm nowhere near that star star is going
to fulfill what I need for quite some time so it's broken down obviously into
these different categories productivities and tools you can see the
difference between Pro and star you get to sunset videos you get to schedule
video updates you get to schedule publish you get to publish to Facebook
now some of these you can do on YouTube itself but Tubebuddy makes it much easier
and faster to find these options now here bulk processing tools is where you
start to see Pro kind of start to fade off so here we've got the monetization
double check back up update playlists back up update end scenes bulk update
cards thumbnail overlay bulk find and replace and append bulk delete end scene
bulk delete cards bulk copy and seen and bulk cop cars now there are a lot of
things in here that I really don't need to bulk do but there
are two in particular that I thought we're well worth the upgrade and that
was this thumbnail overlay and bulk Find and Replace and apend so we're gonna pop
over to my youtube account so that I can show you what these are so you can see
this is the new YouTube studio probably not new depending on where in the future
you watch this is a snapshot in time but YouTube studio kind of change the way
some of the things in Tubebuddy looked so Tubebuddy now has this bar up at the
top and here you can see bulk metadata updates bulk card updates bulk and seen
and miscellaneous tools so here you can see scheduled channel back up de
monetization double check this is always good because you never know and here you
can see I'd ran it just before actually filming so there's nothing to see there
right now channel backup is nice too because using Pro you could backup your
channel but you could not download your channels metadata so I'll show you where
to download that later so we're going to start with thumbnails so what this will
allow you to do is actually add an overlay so if you've ever needed to do a
promotion or you just want to add something so that when people look at a
thumbnail they automatically know it's yours well this is how you could do that
and save yourself some time now I'm not going to do this a hundred percent of
the right way and chances are you can't see what I'm actually doing right now
but I selected a file so make sure you selected a valid bubble blah blah blah
so it has to be either 1280 by 720 or 1920 by 1080 in the case of the picture
that I selected it's not quite but we're gonna see if it works you do need to
make sure that you select yeah all right so it's not gonna let me do that the the
file that you select needs to match the required file size and it has to be a
PNG file so that it will have a transparency to it and since I did not
prepare for this sadly I cannot show you what it will do is over in the corner
here where you see I have my watermark that's actually embedded in all of my
videos but if I wanted to the watermark out or have my name
Wanderer001 coming down the side here I can do that using the thumbnails
now this one I did prepare for title and description so having had to have done
this in the past where you have to find and replace something in your
description so let's say you have links to your Amazon affiliates well if you've
ever had to go through two hundred some-odd videos descriptions and change
them you'll know that it's a pain the butt so in my case I had a opportunity
with massdrop to do a headset promotion it was a test to see if they
would you know work with me in the future didn't quite get the views that
it should have so the link that they gave me to massdrop I want to replace
with one from Amazon so that instead of feeding people to something that's not
going to do anything it'll send them to mass drop but it won't give me any
credit anymore so what we can do using the bulk find replace and append we can
tell it this is what we're looking for this is what we want to replace action
find and replace text we have options here insert text after before but the
bus so there's lots of things that we can do with this particular tool we can
also tell it to search in titles descriptions in my case I know it's just
in the description so we will do this and continue and then I can say I want
to search all of my videos so full list of my videos or I can specific I can set
specific variables in list and video IDs that specify blah blah blah within a
playlist or I can search so you can also select only load 50 most recent or you
can select this and change this it's faster I'm going to do all of them so
we're gonna just start this and not gonna make you sit through all this but
you can see how quickly it's going oh I have two hundred sixty-nine videos Wow
that's nice but there you can see it's showing me hey these are all the ones
that it has found a match with so in my case I am going to sit sitting here only
public video is unlisted private I going to do all videos I can select all of
them by clicking this instead of having to go check check check check check
check check check or none and since I'm selecting that many videos
it has selected 247 videos because you can see down here these early ones don't
actually have it and then apparently I did a live stream at one point I guess
that was a mistake and then this was a project for somebody at work
so okay now we have 247 video selected we will continue so it's saying you want
to replace this with this and we're going to say yes do it and start and
then here it's going to run through the videos I'm not gonna make you sit
through this but it should be done in roughly 5 to 10 minutes for this level
of for this amount of videos and there we are as promised about 10 minutes late
well no there's more like 5 or 6 you can see no more videos to process all 247
videos were processed none with error and closed and so what that has done now
is I don't have to go and open and edit and open and edit and open and edit 247
videos I've done it before it is painful just for the ability to do
that I am willing to pay for the star level now I will say I don't change it
often and I haven't used the thumbnail overlay which is the other reason I had
considered in the past getting it but I plan to use that in the future and be
more prepared but definitely that finding replace super super helpful
moving on we come down to video SEO tools now a lot of this you'll notice
that pretty much getting parody until you come down here to opportunity finder
and keyword ranking now keyword ranking it will allow you to a keyword rank
tracking will allow you to track up to 5 at this level if you want more and buy
more 50 you do have to upgrade to the legend status don't really use this
however I have found that opportunity finder is something that I have started
incorporating into my YouTube repertoire more so what is that so we're gonna come
over here to Tubebuddy where I have it already
started we're gonna come over to launchpad we're gonna click the
dashboard and then here you're going to see a couple of videos that I've run it
on you can see where it shows opportunities opportunities and then
these indicate that I have not actually run it yet so what you do in order to
run this is you have to come back to your YouTube channel and then you pick
one of your videos you click on the little to buddy icon here and we're
gonna scroll down a little bit since it decided that it didn't like what I was
doing come over to launchpad and then you say add video to launchpad and then
what it'll do is they'll bring you into the tubebuddy dashboard here and then it
will process your video in here you can see title check tag check card check
playlist check and it's going through all of the best practices for this video
to tell if there's any opportunities that it can find for you to improve your
video now it does say that you have to have your video live for at least two
days for it to fully be able to show you opportunities that may be there for you
so if you just make it live don't run this tool generally I've been doing it
about a week after so as i'm uploading my new video i will run the opportunity
to check on my old video and here this is what a card looks like for it so here
good job best practices benefits resources so here best practices it's
showing I am missing cards so for this one this particular video I'm missing
cards did not know that thought I had cards so I should go back and put cards
we have your checklist here so it will show you did you do all of your
checklist opportunities found so here audience retention so if I click on this
it will explain so for me it says I should have a card 16 seconds in so that
I catch my audience before the drop off audience retention I have high percent
watches so it's showing me this video is 40 percent versus your average of 28
percent that's because I make really really long videos and not everybody
likes to watch them so here we go community comments awaiting response so
there are comments that waiting for me to approve them I will
not be a proofing them I should remove them because they are spammy comments
and shouldn't be there and then here we go SEO tag so here is showing search
phrases click to add so this is my current tag cloud and then these are
things that people are actually searching for that bring them to this
video so realistically I should be adding this one down here and you'll
notice it does show you the number changing down here which will let you
know if you're going over your limit so we'll do that and attached a clue to see
so there you can see 503 I have gone over my limit so what I'm going to do is
I'm going to take out TV channels there because why bother because these are
search phrases that people are actually using so we're gonna do that one and
that so again I'm over my limit so I will have to take something out we will
take a free TV and there we go and we can save that right from here and it
will change the tag cloud for Pluto but it's letting you know that hey there's
still stuff that you could be adding but I did make changes now we're gonna pop
back to the launchpad dashboard because this is just for this one video the
dashboard here shows you the same thing so if I were to refresh this
opportunities would show up for my Pluto TV now you can select this X and it will
take them out of this area so here this is a video that I no longer have in my
channel it was a mid role that I did I'm gonna say now take that out of my
opportunities yes we're gonna do that that's one of the things with Tubebuddy
I wish that you know if you deleted a video that it would get rid of it from
places like this but here's Philo TV so here you can see three opportunities if
I click on this it will bring me into an area very similar to what we were
looking at so again this one has a high watch compared to my others also the tag
cloud tag cloud similar issues these are things that people were searching for
when they found this so really I should be adding them to my actual thing so
we're gonna go here here IPTV over I'm not gonna actually make you sit through
me adding all of these tags but again we're gonna come over and save so some
of the you'll be able to do right from
Tubebuddies interface here others you will have to go back to YouTube and do but at
least you have this opportunity and and you can mark as complete which will say
yes this is fine moving on I did mention over here backup and export so here you
can actually see the backups that I've been doing I don't do them as often as I
should I really need to do get be a little more diligent about that but here
you can actually see unlike in the pro version you can download the CSV file
which will include all of your backup information which is great and brand
alerts this is something that I don't really do but here I can do a brand
alert I did a brand alert for my name obviously I'm a very small channel and
nobody's really looking for me so I'm not getting any brand alerts now with
the star you only can look for one brand you will have to do legend to get more
than that now I know I covered a lot of data here but this is what you can
expect to get with Tubebuddy now this includes all the stuff you get for free all the
stuff you get from Pro and the laundry list of things that I said you can get
for star mostly bulk tools but there are a few things which I showed you I find
very helpful in my day to day with YouTube and when I first started youtube I
was just kind of doing this as like a pastime hobby it's still a pastime hobby
I'm still trying to help people out but I've kind of gotten more into the
metrics and trying to do a better job with retention and getting people to
click on things and find my stuff better Birds it's easier and - buddy is
definitely the way to do that so if you're interested in downloading Tubebuddy
it is an extension or an add-on for Chrome or Firefox you do need Google
account to use it I will have a link in the description below that will allow
you to download it for free and if you wanted to pay for it feel free I highly
recommend at this point any level of Tubebuddy depending on your size again
Legend is kind of like if you were managing brands of several people I am
NOT I'm just a little guy in a basement somewhere but hopefully you found this
helpful in some way shape or form I have been Wanderer001 and as always
thanks for watching