- You lot are always asking me
how to grow faster on YouTube.
And most of the time I will tell you
there are no shortcuts.
Except for this new overpowered YouTube tool.
That will give you on average,
20% better results.
If you've got access to it.
I know, I know.
Not all of you have access
to the community tab yet.
So if you are working towards 500 subscribers.
Let us know how close you are to that goal
in the comments below.
And I will confess,
that the YouTube community tab
is a little bit of a pet project here at vidIQ.
We keep coming back to it.
And we keep telling you
just how fantastic it really is.
It allows you to communicate
with your community
and reach new audiences,
for relatively low cost.
In terms of time and effort.
I would say,
if you're not publishing
a video today on YouTube.
You should certainly be posting on the community tab.
Let me explain it like this.
We got 1.8 million video views
over the last 28 days.
Over the same time period.
And thanks to the new analytics
in the YouTube Studio.
We can see that our community post
got 2.5 million impressions.
Yes.
More people saw our text pictures and polls
than watched our videos.
But I'm not here to show you
the new community post analytics.
What I am here to show you
is an awesome,
possibly annoying new feature.
Yes, that's right folks.
You can now post voting polls with pictures.
Which is great for creators.
But terrible for Jasper.
(solemn music)
So the next time you're on your YouTube mobile app.
Check to see if you can now post image polls.
Of the time of recording,
this option isn't available on desktop.
Along with a text message,
you can add up to four pictures as poll options.
They will be displayed in a square format.
So be aware of any cropping this may cause.
You can also add some text
to the picture options.
But only 14 characters.
Which really is rather stingy.
When you post a poll,
this is what it's going to look like
to a YouTube user.
And this is where things get really interesting.
Look at how a four image voting poll
covers the entire mobile screen.
That's a lot of real estate.
It's pretty much impossible to avoid.
And I think it's this in large part,
that is contributing
to phenomenal engagement rates
for picture polls.
We can see this in the analytics.
Toggle the top posts to Polls.
And then click See More.
You'll see here that the top vote
is a picture poll.
And incredibly,
it has a 30% post vote rate.
So just think about that for a second.
That basically means,
almost one in every three people
who saw this voting poll,
engaged with it.
Imagine if your click-through rate was that high.
Oh, and one more thing.
If I filter by the last 365 days.
The top free voting polls
on the vidIQ community tab
are all picture polls.
All posted within the last month.
As I say, feels a little overpowered doesn't it.
Rather than complain about it,
leverage it.
As for a quick few picture poll ideas.
You could ask your audience what tech to buy.
Or which game to play next.
They could help you make branding decisions.
Like which channel icon to pick.
Unfortunately,
this doesn't really work for thumbnails.
Because the images are square
and they're far too small.
Yeah, YouTube,
you missed a bit of an opportunity there.
We could have used that
for AB thumbnail testing.
And don't forget that with voting polls,
you can include links
as a bonus call to action.
Also look at the difference here.
The picture poll has twice as many votes.
Yet, it's been up for half as long.
Although when you really, really think
about this voting poll.
- It's a trap.
- YouTube have another update plan
for community post two.
That being the ability to make post expire
after a set period of time.
You may wanna use this
when you're offering a temporary discount
on a product or merch that you're selling.
Or if you wanna share
a time sensitive special exclusive message
with your community.
As far as I'm aware
that hasn't rolled out yet.
So do keep an eye out for it.
Very much like shorts.
The community tab
is its own social media platform
within YouTube.
It does require creativity, commitment,
patience, consistency.
But when you consider the potential reach,
versus the time and effort
you need to commit to it.
The opportunities here are tremendous.
And this new picture poll element
just makes a community tab even more powerful.
For us, it could potentially
bring in hundreds of thousands
of extra free impressions
every single month.
And all the best things in life are free, right?
Which is why you should watch
this video over here.
To learn how you can get
even more free views for your channel.
And it won't even cost you a penny.
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