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- All right then folks.
This is one of the final pieces of the new YouTube Studio.
For well over a year, the playlist link
has always thrown you out of the new studio,
but now it has its own dedicated screen.
And this is what it looks like.
On the right hand side you have three columns
showing you the visibility of a playlist,
when a video was last uploaded to that playlist
and the total number of videos in the playlist.
Unfortunately, you can't sort by any of these columns,
but you can filter this list through a playlist title.
To create a brand new playlist for your YouTube channel,
click the New Playlist button in the top right-hand corner,
a popup will it show you two options.
First of all, give you a playlist a title
with a maximum of 150 characters,
and then set the visibility
to how accessible you want the playlist to be.
Be it private, unlisted or public.
Click the Create button and then mouse over the playlist
and click on the pencil icon to start editing it.
Yes, you are indeed correct.
YouTube once again is taking you out of the studio
to their standard playlist page.
From here, you can edit to the title, visibility
and add a description to the playlist, which is useful,
and I'll show you why later on.
So yeah, a playlist without any content
isn't really going to help us, is it?
What we need to do is go back to the YouTube Studio,
but a different part of the YouTube Studio.
That all sounds a little clunky.
Back in the YouTube Studio,
you'll need to go to the "Video" or "Content" section,
depending on what YouTube decides to call it this week.
Basically, it's your video manager page.
And when you check one of your videos,
a black bar of options will appear at the top.
One of those options is to add the selected video
to a playlist.
It's all a case of checking the right boxes
to select the video or videos
you want to add to one or multiple playlists.
Just don't forget to save at the end.
Back on the playlist screen,
your new playlist should now have a thumbnail.
And when you mouse over it, you have the option
to play all of the videos in the playlist.
But let's go back to the Edit screen instead.
So now on the right-hand side,
you can see all of your videos in the playlist.
Click on the Menu button for one of your videos
and this gives you a ton of customization options,
including adding a video to other playlists.
If you click on the bars on the left hand side of a video,
you can drag and reorder the list if you wish,
but you can also use the Sort button at the top.
There is also a Playlist Menu button over to the left,
which allows you to set instructions such as,
where new videos go in the playlist
and whether this is an official playlist series
for the entire channel.
A series playlist allows other videos in the playlist
to be featured and recommended
when someone is viewing a video in the series.
YouTube may use this info to modify how the videos
are presented or discovered.
Now you can add videos to the playlist from this screen,
but it is hard to find videos
and difficult to select multiple videos.
Which is why you should do this from the Video Manager page
in the YouTube Studio.
All right, let's talk a little bit
about the importance of playlists.
Put simply, playlists allow your audience
to binge watch your content.
Once said viewer is within one of your playlists,
the next video that comes up
is going to be another one of your videos in that playlist.
That simply means more watch time for you
and more of the relationship built up
between the viewer and the creator.
This is of course, very useful for educational content,
which follows naturally on from itself.
But generally speaking, all of your content
should be connected in some way on your channel.
Let me put it this way.
Every video on your channel
should either go into an existing playlist
or start a new one.
If it doesn't have a home on a playlist,
then does it have a home on your channel?
I did briefly mention earlier on
about adding a description to a playlist,
and the reason you should do that is
if you add one of those playlist to your channel,
another benefit of a playlist,
then that description will appear
above the playlist adding more context.
So yeah, playlists.
Start using them if you haven't already.
If you wanna learn how to do more basic YouTube stuff,
then make sure to check out
our "Creators Beginners Guide" over here.
Thank you very much for watching
and enjoy the rest of your video making day.