- I'm gonna give you a list of the best tools
to help you grow here on YouTube as a content creator.
And we're starting right now.
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My name is Nick, welcome to another video.
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There are a lot of things involved
with growing here on YouTube.
Of course, you know, your videos, the learning curve
behind actually making the videos, using the platform,
how to engage with your audience and things like that.
But there are also some tools that can really advance
what's going on and then give you some insight into
what's going on in your channel, here on YouTube.
It's a short list of tools, but these are the things,
the most important tools that I have personally found
that have helped me grow my channel
from 350 something subscribers a month
to over 2,600 subscribers a month.
And real quick, before we get started
if you have any YouTube tools that you recommend,
make sure to leave them in the comments down below
to help other people that are gonna be watching this video.
Number one and at the very top of my list, is TubeBuddy.
If you are not familiar with TubeBuddy,
this browser plug-in is going to blow your mind.
TubeBuddy allows you to bulk copy cards across your videos.
You can make thumbnail graphics with it.
You can use it for keyword research.
They suggest tags to help you rank your videos better.
You can A/B test thumbnails.
You can even set up canned responses on your channel,
which is pretty awesome.
So let's say that you get a lot of the same type of comments
or a lot of people asking the same type of question,
you can pre-define that answer and then you can just
select it from a drop down when somebody asks that question.
Saves a ton of time.
You can also see a quicker review of the stats
of other channels that leave comments
on any video on YouTube
and you can use this same feature
to actually reach out to the people directly,
which is fantastic if you are trying to find other
YouTubers to collaborate with.
Here's an example,
let's check out Brian G Johnson's channel,
you hit this video here, check out the top comment,
hey it's Fitz!
As a side note, he has a very helpful fitness channel,
so if you're wanting to get into shape this year,
go over there and check him out.
But anyway, click on TubeBuddy next to his name
and you can see his stats or send a message directly.
So that's great for contacting YouTubers for collaboration.
TubeBuddy, it's amazing.
TubeBuddy is a free browser plugin,
if you're just getting started,
it's really gonna help you get going here on YouTube
and help you rank your videos better.
They also have a Pro version,
which is what I have and I highly recommend it,
the features that come with the Pro version,
are really going to help you grow your channel.
Of course the Pro version does cost money,
but if you're serious about growing here on YouTube,
it's worth it.
Of course, I'm gonna put a link to TubeBuddy
down in the description below,
and I want you to know that, my confidence is so high,
in this tool, that they have an affiliate program
and I put affiliate links out to them
in other stuff that I do, but in this video,
it's not gonna be an affiliate link,
it's just gonna be a straight link to TubeBuddy,
because I want you to go there,
and I want you to download the plugin,
I want you to give it a shot,
and see how it can help you grow your channel.
And as a side note, before we get into the other tools,
because I've hyped up TubeBuddy so much,
I want you to know that this video is,
in no way sponsored by TubeBuddy
or any of the other tools on this list.
I'm just trying to hook you guys up,
because I was having a conversation
with another YouTube friend of mine,
who is very into YouTube, has been doing it for a long time
and they were not familiar with TubeBuddy,
which lets me know that a lot of the people
watching my videos,
probably are not familiar with TubeBuddy as well,
and it's pretty important that you know about this stuff.
Number two, Social Blade.
Social Blade helps you track your personal growth,
which is awesome, you can track your stats
against competing channels here on YouTube.
You can future growth predictions,
based on your current trajectory,
which is pretty cool, or if you're just curious,
you can use Social Blade to check out the details
of other channels, to see how they're growing,
to see how many subscribers they're getting per day,
and things like that, it's a really cool tool
for personal growth and to do research on other channels.
Especially other people in your nitch.
- Niche. - Niche.
Another fantastic tool if you are a stats junkie,
is Tubular Labs.
In addition to all of the other statistical information
that they provide, a really cool feature about Tubular Labs
is they also tell you who your top commentors are,
which is great for checking viewer engagement,
especially if you're using that engagement
to run contests or something like that.
That is not a bribe.
But they also tell you how much influence
your subscribers have, so let's say for example,
that if I have someone subscribed to my channel
that has, you know, 15,000 subscribers
and they do similar topics to myself.
By keeping track of what's going inside of Tubular Labs,
I can see that they subscribe to my channel
and I can reach out to them because, you know,
they like my stuff enough to subscribe to me,
so I can reach out to them and see if maybe
they're interested in a collaboration of some kind.
So for that alone,
Tubular Labs is a really, really cool tool.
Another one is the the YouTube Creator Studio app.
Now by assumption, I think that a lot of YouTubers
know about this, but I'm mentioning it just because
I know that there's probably a lot of
other people that do not.
With the YouTube Creator Studio app you can do things like
check your comments and engage with your community,
view real time stats, which I'm warning you,
can get kinda addictive.
In addition to that you can also access all types
of other statistical data that you would normally
have to log in to your YouTube Creator Studio on a computer
or through a browser in order to have access to,
you have access to all of that stuff within the app,
which is pretty awesome.
VidIQ is another browser plug in, it's similar to TubeBuddy,
but personally my preference is TubeBuddy,
because in addition to just the statistical stuff,
they offer a lot more features in addition to,
you know, just the statistical information,
but VidIQ is definitely a helpful tool
if you are doing research on other videos
and things like that, and especially useful
for being able to pull up search results and see,
right away, the tags that people are using,
it can kinda help spark some ideas
when you're doing your own keyword research.
They also give you another range of stats that
you can see in your sidebar at a glance,
which can also be very helpful
when you are putting your videos together,
you're doing research for your keywords
that you're going after, and things like that.
Remember, if you have any tools
that I did not mention in this list
that you want to suggest to other creators,
leave them down in the comments below,
because that is the type of community
that we have on this channel.
We're trying to help each other out,
so make sure to leave that information
down in the comments below, to help out other people
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