- I'm going to show you all of the features
inside of Tube Buddy.
I'm going to tell you how to use them.
I'm going to tell you how to use them
to research your competition and more.
And we're starting right now.
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My name is Nick.
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Okay I recently put up a video
about how to rank your videos using Tube Buddy.
And in the comments section there and privately
I got a lot of messages asking a bunch of different
questions about Tube Buddy.
Because of that I said hey, I'm going to put
together tutorial.
And this is that tutorial.
And real quick before we hop on the computer,
did you know that you can spy on your competitors
with Tube Buddy?
All the people in your niche, you can spy on them
with Tube Buddy.
Let me know if you knew that down in the comments below.
Let's head to the computer.
Okay, so here we are in the computer
and I'm going to break this down
into a few different sections here.
The first thing I want to show you
is some general features that you may
or may not be overlooking.
Because in the first video that I made about Tube Buddy
this one right here, I had a lot of people say that
they saw some features that they didn't even know existed.
So I'm going to show you basically a feature overview
with Tube Buddy.
And then I'm going to show you some other things
about researching other people in your niche
and things like that.
So the first thing I want to go over here is
if you go up to the top of your screen while you
are logged into YouTube and you click on this,
what you're going to see is you're going to see
a bunch of different links here.
The stuff here will actually log you into
or actually take you into your Tube Buddy account.
The stuff over here this is basically
going to be quick links that will take you
into these sections inside of YouTube itself.
And then these down here are actual tools
that you can use right now.
So we're going to start with the tag explorer.
I actually did a video about this one
just a couple of videos ago.
That's the one that I just showed on the screen right here.
And because of that if you are interested
in watching the full tutorial on how to use tags
to get views on YouTube
I'm going to put a link to that right up here
at the top of the screen.
You use this tag explorer to basically research the topics
that you are wanting to cover so you can see
the other people that are ranking for these videos.
You can see the search volume, the competition,
and that sort of thing, as well as get additional ideas
for more tags to see if the topic that you're
talking about is trending.
To get auto suggestions and things like that.
But this can really make a big difference
on helping you rank your videos so I really suggest
that you watch that other video.
I'll also put a link to it in the description down below
and I'll actually link to it at the end of this video
so that you can make sure to check that out
once you are finished with this video.
But the next thing inside of that dashboard
is a video topic planner.
Personally I don't use this.
I do all this inside of my phone actually
while I'm out and about.
But basically let's say if you're wanting to do
a video topic then what I would do here is
I would say okay YouTube tips and then
that would just put the title up there for me
and then I can start putting my notes together.
So basically awesome tip here,
another awesome tip here, and so on.
And basically what it is you can break down
all of your information here.
It's just kind of like a sketch pad
while you're here on YouTube.
So let's say as an example
you are watching videos on YouTube
and an idea pops in your head.
Well that's where the video topic planner
really comes in handy
because you can just say okay well while I'm inside
of YouTube anyway, I'm just gonna click this
and I'm going to add this to my video topic list
so that I can come back later.
In addition to that they also have
a best time to publish,
which is a really cool feature.
If you click on this then what's gonna happen is
Tube Buddy is going to analyze your channel
and they're going to give you the best time to publish
based on what's currently going on in your channel.
So in this case if I want to get
the best results for everyone I would publish
on a Sunday and a Saturday.
If I want to get the best results for subscribers
then I would publish on a Saturday which
that's when I do my live streams.
And if I want to get the best results for non-subscribers
then I would also publish on a Sunday here, as well.
So this is a really cool feature
and a lot of people ask you know hey,
you know when's the best time to publish.
This is going to help you narrow that down.
Now keep in mind, this is based on what's already
going on in your channel.
So let's say if I were to move my live streams
to Wednesday then you would see
this Wednesday metric start to climb
and that Saturday metric start to fall
down a little bit.
The next thing on the list is the tag lists
and what this is is basically when you go into here
this kind of helps you
get together a list of different tags.
Maybe you see them in other videos or something like that.
Or you're just sitting here you know
planning the tags that you'll want to use in your videos.
Then what you can do is you can actually
sort these into different lists
for the different topics that you talk about.
And then you can just copy these out
when it comes time to add them to your video
and then paste them into your video tags
before you release your video.
Okay the next feature that I want to show you
is the canned responses inside of Tube Buddy.
This is an often overlooked feature
but check this out.
So if you get a lot of comments
you can create canned responses based on those comments.
So like Silverberg here says that they've just subscribed.
So I can click on the canned responses here.
I can just click on new subscriber
and what's going to happen is it's going to
put in a predefined message that basically tells them
if they have the question they can use this hash tag.
And it also tells them to check out the channel page
just so they can see all of the other topics
that I covered so far in case there's something else
that they might want.
And I basically give them a welcome and say hey,
I look forward to seeing you around.
And then I just click reply and that's already in there
without me having to go through the process
of typing all of that stuff in.
Give him a heart too for leaving that comment.
Welcome aboard Silverberg.
But you can break those own into a bunch of different ways.
Once you open this up, if you do not have any
canned responses in here what you can do is
you can actually go up here and you can click
on this little gear icon.
When you do that it's going to open you up
into your canned responses option here
inside of your Tube Buddy panel.
And then you can just go through and you can
define this any way that you want to.
So that by itself is going to save you a lot of time.
Especially if you have long messages like this
that you like to type out.
That's where it can really save you a ton of time.
If it's just something like you know hey,
thanks I appreciate it
it's actually faster for me to type that out
than it is for me to pick that from the drop-down.
So you know something like that I'll just type it out
nowadays but
for this one this is a
fantastic one to to be able to put in there
to welcome new people when they mention
that they subscribed.
Or if you even have something that people ask a lot
about depending on the type of content you make.
If people have a common question, you can add the answer
to that question here and then just pick it
from a drop-down
lay that question bottom lay the answer out
for that question and then move on.
So this next thing I want to show you is how
Tube Buddy can give you some insight
into what's going on on your videos on your channel.
And then after this, we are going to go into
looking into the other people in your niche
to see how you're going up against them
and to get other comparisons and to actually
use Tube Buddy to see what's actually working for them
on their channels, as well.
So what you want to do is you want to go up here
and if you're video Lytx is compressed
you want to click this little arrow here
and then you're going to catch a drop-down
that looks like this
that's gonna give you all kinds of really cool data
that you can use.
And this is gonna show up on other videos, as well.
But basically what's gonna show you is
it's gonna show you how many views you're coming in,
you're pulling in at a glance.
It's gonna show you estimated earnings,
your engagement rate, how many views per hour.
How many views you got in the first 48 hours
which is very important.
They're going to show you the view duration.
And all of this stuff without you having
to actually go into your analytics
and hunt down all of this information.
In addition to that they're gonna show you
your like ratios are, gonna tell you how many
comments that you have on that video.
And they're gonna tell you how many subscribers
have been gained from that video, as well,
which is fantastic.
As you keep scrolling down the page here
they're also going to show you all of your tags.
And they're going to show you this
little number right here
based on your user history.
This is basically gonna tell you
how you're ranking based on your user history,
based on how YouTube is displaying stuff for you.
So if you want to see how things are being viewed
not from your view basically as a default view,
then what you would want to do is
you'd want to use your browser in incognito mode.
And then go and look at the stuff that way
instead of looking at it from inside of your own account.
But in addition to this, they also have here
they have your stats option here to where
it kind of summarizes some of this information, as well.
They also show you your tags here.
And they also have a quick link here
to some additional tools that are really cool.
This one right here is a social monitor.
What this one does is it tells you basically
when people tweet your stuff they tell you basically,
hey, these are the people that are tweeting your things
so that you can follow them,
so that you can thank them or anything like that.
If your content's getting shared on any
of the other platforms with the exception of Facebook,
it will tell you what's going on there.
And if you're doing Facebook they give you
this link because they removed the ability
to search.
So because of that you have to
right-click this, open it up.
And then what will happen there is a search
will be ran across Facebook for your actual video URL.
And then that will give you some insight on
to anywhere your video has been shared on Facebook, as well.
Next up is the search rankings.
This basically tells you based on
what's going on in your video right now
what's happening with your search metrics.
So here at the top you see this video
has gained four spots for this particular search term.
For this particular search term I've actually
lost two spots.
Gained three spots.
I didn't move.
Lost three spots.
Gained a spot et cetera.
This is also really cool to keep track of
what's going on with your video.
If you click on any of
these it's gonna pull up additional information
and it's gonna give you a history
of what's going on with that video, as well
because your rankings can change by the day
as you can see here.
Next up on the list is the share tracker.
This is basically what you have shared it to.
So in this one I just shared it to
my personal Google Plus page.
I also shared it to Twitter
but for some reason it's not tracking that.
And I shared it on Facebook
but I did that with the URL
not directly from YouTube.
This is basically going it directly from YouTube
so that you can make sure that you share everywhere.
But if you're just if you're copying the links out
and you're dropping them so that you can customize
the messages and things like that,
then that's not going to show here.
This is only if you're sharing directly
from the share options right here on YouTube.
Another option they give you here is the
bid to bid promotion.
This is basically to where if you want it will
change your featured video to push everything
across your channel to this particular video
if you want to do that.
With the description promotion what this does is it
basically it will put a link to this video
across all of the videos on your channel, as well.
But keep in mind, if you are updating your descriptions
this can resubmit your video to YouTube
and you might gain or lose rankings because of it.
So be careful on this particular one right here
and use that one with with caution
or with judgment I should say.
And with this one here but you are free
to go ahead with this one because all this is doing
is updating your featured video.
Next up on the list and this is really handy
if you have a website and you want to
embed your videos somewhere.
What you can do is you can actually pick
all of your settings from here.
This is normally available in the embed settings, as well
but this basically gives some additional things
that are not available right inside of the embed feature.
So as an example this will cut down on
the branding on YouTube.
This will disable full screen if you only want
to have it play within your blog or something like that.
This disables the play controls and so on.
But basically what happens is as you start
clicking on these options it recodes the embed for you
so that you can customize exactly how you want
this to show up wherever it is that you are embedding it.
The copy annotations option I'm going to go ahead
and skip that one since we're not doing
annotations on YouTube anymore.
The animated GIFs animator sorry the
animated GIFs generator or GIF,
however you want to say it.
This basically will let you cut a animation
out of your videos, which is pretty cool.
So if you want to add just a GIF on Tumblr
or something like that about something that
you're saying in the video, you can do that here.
So let's say you want to add some text to it
then you can just do that grab it.
And then you can basically export
it out of here and save it.
And then you can post that anywhere else
that you want to on the web, which is pretty cool.
Now we're going to get into the fun stuff
which is looking at other people in your niche
to kind of see what's going on with them,
to see how your channel is comparing to them.
To basically get research into what's working for them
what's not, and things like that.
So what we're going to do is were going to go
to Brian T Johnson's channel.
That's going to be the first one that we're going to go to.
And basically like I was saying before
with a video Lytx
that's where this comes in handy.
So I can look at this from the outside
not having access to Brian's admin panel.
I could look at this on the outside and say okay,
this video he's gotten 9,890 views.
Estimated.
He's made about fourteen bucks on this.
His engagement rate is eight percent.
He's getting about two views per hour on this.
This makes up less than one percent of his channel views.
His view to subscriber ratio is running
at 50% right now in this video
which is fantastic because that's basically telling me
that if he's running at 50% on this
that he's getting a decent amount of subscribers
from this video.
Another thing that I look at here is
I look at engagement.
I look at engagements per day.
And I can also just get a general idea of
what he's doing with his SEO to see
what he's doing.
And I can see here he's ranking 15 tags
which is fantastic.
Brian obviously he knows what he's doing.
So he's ranking all of these different tags here.
But I can see specifically like if I was gonna
make a video YouTube tags
how to get more views on YouTube videos.
If I was gonna go for a similar title or go
directly against this video then I would look here
and I would say okay these are the things
that he's ranking for around this.
So if he's ranking for these and
it's a good idea that I also use some of these tags, as well
as well some other things, to try to overtake him
in search rankings.
So that's really good for getting an overview
of how effective a video is for somebody else in your niche.
Basically saying okay well this is what's going on
with this video even though I don't have access
to the back end data.
This is basically summarizing everything
that's happening in the video.
And more importantly it's also giving you
these right here which is telling you things
that they have ranked for.
And these are things you might want to keep in mind, as well
when you're considering different things
that you can do to rank your own video.
The same exact thing applies here with the tools option.
If I go here, I have the social monitor
and this is gonna tell me where his video
has been shared on Twitter.
It's gonna tell me all the people that shared his stuff.
And if I wanted to sneak into his audience
what I would do, and this is a good tip for you guys
that are coming into the YouTube space right now.
For the YouTube tip space.
So what I would do in this case
if I was trying to squeeze into Brian's audience is
I would go and I would open this up, open this up,
open this up and I would follow every
single one of these people.
Because I know they're people that share content.
So because of that, I would go in if I was trying to
kind of squeeze it on his audience
I would go in, I would right click
and I would make sure that I followed
every single one of these people so that
they knew about me just in case they didn't.
And real quick before I move on to the next one,
I want to say if you have not subscribed to
Brian T Johnson yet make sure that you
head over to his channel.
He also makes videos to help YouTubers
so make sure to head over to his channel,
subscribe and make sure that you click that little
bell notification icon so you can be notified
when he releases new content.
Now we're going to move on to video creators
and they have 309,000 subscribers.
If you're not familiar with them also.
You want to make sure that you head over
to video creators and you subscribe to Tim.
He also gives tons and tons and tons of
excellent advice here on his channel.
And like I said you got 309,000 subscribers.
He knows what he's doing.
So he's you know somebody that you definitely
want to listen to.
But another thing that you can do
when you are looking into
what's going on with your competition,
you can compare channels and things like that.
Like for me I like to just kind of get a general idea
hey, channels are a lot bigger than mine.
How do I compare and things like that.
So what I would use for that is I would go
to the channel Lytx.
And then I would click on that and channel Lytx
is basically gonna compare our two channels.
An they're gonna say, okay, well these are
this is his real time subscriber count.
These are how many views he has,
how many videos and things like that.
And then I can actually break down the different metrics.
So, in Tim's case I can say okay, well for the past
30 days I've had 12,000 new subscribers.
He's had seven.
On a daily break down
this is kind of what's going on.
On views, he's gonna crush me on views.
So I've had 445,000 views
he's had 841,000 views.
But I can say okay you know this is this is
what's going on.
11 videos on my channel
to nine videos on his channel.
So this gives me some insight into how our uploads
compare to each other and things like that.
But this is really good just for getting
a little bit of insight into what's going on
on your channel versus other people
that are in your niche.
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