- I'm gonna tell you nine free tools and resources
that are gonna help you grow your channel,
make better videos, get your branding together,
as well as some additional things
that are gonna be of a massive benefit to you.
Starting with Mixkit, sponsored.
You're going to absolutely love Mixkit here's why.
For everybody, Mixkit has free stock videos,
free stock music that you can use in your videos,
and I know how hard it is to find quality free music
so you're definitely gonna love that.
But if you are a Premiere Pro user,
you just hit the jackpot.
Mixkit has free Premiere Pro templates,
also known as MOGRT files that where you can load them
into Adobe Premiere and you can customize
a bunch of things inside of the template.
For example, they have customizable in-screens,
they have customizable subscribing animations,
they have transitions,
they have all kinds of just awesome things
for Adobe Premiere users.
You know, all the cool stuff
that everybody wants in their videos
they have it at Mixkit.
But it gets even better.
All the things inside of Mixkit are free for commercial use,
which means that you can use them in your YouTube videos
and you can have your videos monetized.
There isn't any attribution required,
which means that you don't have to give them credit
in any way shape or form
for using the things that are on the website, it's awesome.
You should check out Mixkit and you should bookmark it,
so you can keep going back and checking things out
as they keep adding more assets to it.
But I've got a link to Mixkit
and everything else that I'm talking about here
down in the description below.
But before you go down to the description,
you wanna keep watching
because there's explanations
behind some of the tools down there
and exactly how they're gonna benefit you
and how you can use them and that sort of thing.
Next on the list is Unscreen, not sponsored.
Unscreen as a free video background remover.
That's right, you heard me correctly,
a free video background remover,
you don't have to have a green screen,
you don't have to have any fancy editing software
to where you have to mask yourself out
or anything like that.
You simply upload your video to Unscreen
and then you download the GIF
once the background has been removed.
And then you can do fun things like you see popping
down at the bottom of the screen where you have you
as part of the calls to action to your videos.
Currently, Unscreen has a five second limit,
so you gotta make sure
that whatever it is that you're uploading there
that the most important part,
like of you pointing to stuff or something like that,
you wanna make sure that that part
is only five seconds long or less,
because that's currently the limit.
Also, the only options that you can download
are an animated GIF or an animated PNG,
but they are building the functionality
to where you're gonna be able to download videos as well,
it's just not ready yet.
For this next one,
if you're a content creator who has trouble coming up
with a bunch of video ideas for your content,
and you're thinking yourself,
"Hmm, what can I make a video about?"
AnswerThePublic.com, not sponsored,
is the solution for you.
When you go to AnswerThePublic
all you have to do is you put in the topic
of the type of content that you make,
and then AnswerThePublic will actually show you
things that the public are interested in
or the things that the public asks
when it comes to your specific topic.
And if you make how to content, this is a goldmine.
But the only downside of AnswerThePublic
is that every single day
you can only search for three things so make 'em count.
Next on the list is Descript, not sponsored.
Now with Descript,
you can upload your videos to Descript,
and Descript will transcribe your entire video for free.
And I know what you're thinking,
"Hey Nick, why would I want to transcribe
my YouTube videos?
What value does that bring to me
or to anybody else for me to transcribe my videos?"
Calm down, the reason that this is valuable
is because let's say that you have a blog
or you wanna start a blog
so that you can tap into Google search functionality as well
to give yourself that advantage of also ranking there
with additional content from your blog.
Then in that situation, you can upload your videos,
you can download the transcripts,
you wanna add to it after you download the transcript
so that you're not just copying and pasting the exact thing
that you say in your videos,
add to it so that you can make it just a nice,
core, strong piece of content for your blog or your website,
and just use the transcript as the core
of the whole thing that you build the rest of it around.
So instead of having to spend tons of time on the blog,
you can just whip the whole thing together
in like 10 to 15 minutes.
With Descript you do have a three hour limit
on the transcription,
so just as a heads up, make sure that as you're using it,
that you're using it wisely for the free version
so that you're using it wisely,
so that you don't use up
all those minutes just experimenting.
It's also important to know that if you are a podcaster,
you can use this for your podcast as well.
You can go ahead and hit that like button
and thank me for that one.
Okay, this next one is great if you are trying
to come up with brand colors
'cause it's nice to have a nice branded professional look
with what it is that you're doing on YouTube
and all those things that people can use to identify
that your content is yours.
Coolors, not sponsored, will help you do that
by helping you find a fantastic looking color palette
based on your preferences
that you can use to represent your YouTube brand.
Simply start the generator, hit the space bar
until you find one color that you like
then click the lock icon.
Then keep hitting the space bar
until you find a color scheme you like.
You can also fine tune the hue, saturation, brightness
and temperature of the colors that you're looking at
until you find something that you like.
Then export the color palette as an image
and you'll always have that to refer to.
For this next one, if you're using text at all,
if you're putting words on your thumbnails,
or if you're putting words in your video content
in any way, shape or form,
this next one, you're going to love.
Fontjoy, not sponsored,
helps you find fonts that work well together.
And the awesome thing about this is it works
just like Coolors except it's for fonts.
Simply click Generate until you see one font that you like,
then click the lock icon.
Keep hitting Generate until you find
the second font you like.
Then click on the font name
it'll take you to Google Fonts
which are free and safe to use by the way,
and then you can download the fonts.
Using Fontjoy, Coolors and Mixkit together is all you need
to create a nice branded look for your YouTube channel.
You simply take the color palette
that you got from Coolors and you take the fonts
that you got from Fontjoy, and you apply them
to anything that you download from Mixkit
and you're good to go.
This next one is a newcomer on the YouTube tool scene
but it is extremely powerful
and it can help you a ton with your YouTube channel.
It's called Tube Spanner, not sponsored.
And in addition to all of the awesome tools inside of it,
for those of you that write scripts for your videos,
you have to check out their script generator.
With the scripting feature,
you can write your scripts
and the system helps you keep everything structured
and literally lead you through each part of the script
based on the structure or template that you choose.
It'll also give you an estimated time link for the video
so you can know about how long your video
is going to be as you're typing it out.
It's awesome.
The free version is limited to three projects,
so make sure that you use them wisely.
But once you get inside
you start experimenting with the tools
you'll probably wanna upgrade anyway.
Next on the list is TubeBuddy,
it is the number one growth and channel management tool
for YouTube content creators.
Head, sponsored,
tails, not sponsored.
Not sponsored.
If you're a regular viewer, I mean come on,
did you really think that I was gonna make
one of these videos and not include TubeBuddy?
Come on, but the free version does come with limitations
but the big bonus with the free version
is there isn't a time limit on it.
So you can install TubeBuddy now and it's gonna be free
until you decide to upgrade it later in the future,
maybe once your channel gets going
or once you have some of that YouTube ad money
that you can reinvest
into what it is that you're doing on YouTube.
For this next one, you may or may not know
that YouTube has a free app just for you
just for YouTube content creators called YouTube studio.
What do you think on this one,
sponsored or not sponsored?
(drum roll)
Not sponsored.
You can download it free
from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store.
That gives you access to your stats on the go.
They're not as detailed as you would get
if you were looking at your stats on a computer,
but it's better than nothing
and it just gives you some quick insights
into what's going on with your channel,
let's say while you're grabbing coffee,
you're out and about,
or maybe even you're just waiting for somebody to show up,
you can go in there and you can look at your stats.
You can answer comments.
You can even modify titles,
and descriptions, and thumbnails if you want to,
inside of the YouTube studio app.
You're YouTuber, it's made for you by YouTube,
install it, you'll be glad you did.
For even more tools for YouTubers,
click into this playlist right here,
and if you haven't yet, make sure you subscribe.
Thank you so much for watching.
I'll see you next time.