How can you see YouTube stories and increase weekly subscriber growth rate by 8.5%? In
this YouTube stories tutorial, you'll discover how to view stories on your phone, how to
create a story, how to manage stories, the benefits and requirements, and examples of
how to use them to get more subscribers. Hi, my name's Herman Drost. If you want to
grow your audience on YouTube and generate traffic leads and sales on autopilot, hit
the Subscribe button and click the bell notification icon so you're notified every time I upload
new content. Tap the YouTube app, scroll down. You’re going to see stories on your home
screen, and the ones that are highlighted have active stories. You’ll also see them
from your subscriptions feed. If you want to see your own story, just click
on you on the subscriptions feed. I can see the number of likes, views, and comments that
it received. I can tap more, and I can delete it or cancel it. If I want to reply to a comment,
I can just tap the comment and then I can add a public comment. I can also tap Reply
in Story to create a video clip that replies to the comment, so that's a great way to connect
with your audience. Here's how to create a YouTube story using
the YouTube app on your iPhone or Android device. Tap the YouTube app, tap the camera
icon, tap Story. I have three different options here. I can tap the camera roll icon and select
a video from a camera roll, and I can tap Next and I can post the story or I can save
it. If I tap the back arrow, tap Discard. I can tap the button icon, take a picture,
tap next and post it. Tap the back arrow, Discard. Tap and hold down the button to record
a video. "Hey, I'm recording a video about YouTube
stories." Now there's some options here. If I go Next, then I can post the story right
away. I can save it. I can also trim it. I'm moving the handles here. I can also add music,
so I just tap Add music, play the music. I can add the music to the video. If I tap this
icon down here, then I can reduce the music sound in the background.
I can repeat the music, I can remove it, and I can change it. I can change it to a different
one, from featured, genre and mood, then on-device. Then I can also add stickers. I got recent
here. I can do mentions, so I can search for a channel to mention with the sticker. I can
do location. I can do video. I can select videos from recent video, recent uploads.
I select the video here, then it goes on my story.
If you want to get rid of that, I just move it down and put it in the trash. I go to stickers
again. If I click on Emojis, I can select different emojis. I can move that. I can also
add text, also add a marker, moves up and down to increase it or decrease it. I can
add a brush, so I can try all these different ones here. If you want to get rid of that,
just bring it down the trash. Click Stickers. Then I can choose any of these
stickers from here and add it to my stories. If I don't want it, just put it in the trash.
Put this one in the trash. If I click Stickers, I can choose a video; recent videos, uploads.
I select the video, move it around. If I don't want that video, just bring it down into the
trash. I can do mentions, which means search for a channel to mention with the sticker.
The best feature I like is the Videos. I tap on the Video and then I can select one of
my video uploads. Let's tap the crayon. Then I can select the crayon, and select the color,
and I can write on the screen. Tap Undo, undo, done. I can select text, so I do a red text.
Then I can expand a text if I want. Add marker, then I can try different ones here: classic,
light, heavy, increase or decrease the size. I can also do different filters. I tap on
filters and you got all these different filters here. Open the videos page in YouTube Studio
and click on Stories. You'll be able to see the date, visibility, and restrictions. If
you hover over the three dots called Options and click on it, you'll be able to download
your stories or delete your stories. Here's some of the pros and cons of YouTube
stories. Number one, you can connect with your audience on the go. For example, I can
share a 15 second YouTube tip while I'm out and about exercising. If you want to increase
the retention rate of your YouTube video in the first 15 seconds, use the word "use" several
times. The con is you need over 10,000 subscribers
to enable YouTube stories on your channel. It also takes four weeks for stories to show
up on your channel, after you've reached 10,000 subscribers. Wow. Herman, how am I going to
get 10,000 subscribers? Stay tuned to the end of the video, where I show you a hack
on how to get 1,000 subscribers per month. Number two, credits from an active story can
see a weekly subscriber growth rate increase of 8.5%. Just keep in mind that stories don't
affect the videos on your channel. Number three, story comments appear in community
comments. That means I can manage my comments from my computer when I go into community
comments. As I mentioned earlier, I can reply to my
story comments from a mobile phone by going to my subscriptions feed. Just keep in mind
that your stories expire after seven days. You also only have approximately 15 seconds
to create a story. Number four, add effects to your stories. You can add videos, images,
music, stickers, text, et cetera. I love that you can add videos from your public
uploads and also from other people's channels. Number six, ability to trim your video. After
you trim your video, you can save it to your camera roll or post it as a story. Here are
some ways to use stories. Add value-added content for fresh viewers. As I mentioned
before, I just share YouTube video tips each day to my viewers.
Let me know in the comments below what kind of content you want to see in my stories.
You can also show behind the scenes content or ask questions to your viewers and subscribers.
Build hype to your upcoming video to drive initial velocity. Sometimes I'll tease the
content and a story for a video that's ready to be published.
Join me tomorrow Friday, 2:00 PM Eastern Time on my video for a live stream that talks about
how to create a good video script for a YouTube video. This builds up a bit of hype before
the content's ready to be released. You can also share your channel milestones. For example,
I recently got higher click through rates on my newly designed thumbnails.
If your viewers are new to stories, give them a heads up about starting stories for your
YouTube channel. You can make an announcement on your community posts or on your Facebook
group. Let me ask you a question. Do you want to know how to get 1,000 subscribers per month
on your YouTube channel? If that's a yes, watch the next video on how to get 1,000 subscribers
on YouTube hack. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next video.