Hey Derral here, you ready for another YouTube tip?
Well today we're going to talk all about playlists.
Now the whole reason why playlists are actually on YouTube is really to organize videos in
a better way to create a better viewer experience.
Now what is a playlist you might say.
Well, in other words playlists is like greatest hits or themes or if you're really older it's
like creating a mix tape, but with video.
Now in this video I'm going to show you how to create a playlist for your YouTube channel
even if you don't have any videos of your own.
Plus at the end of this video I'm going to show you how to make a playlist to help your
videos rank higher in YouTube's search.
Let's take a look!
I'm going to show you how easy it is to create those playlists for your YouTube channel.
The first way to do that is adding your own videos to a playlist, so let's go ahead and
go up to the dropdown menu here, come down and hit video manager, once you're here you
can go ahead and select any video that you want.
So I want to go ahead and select a few random videos here.
And if you come up here you'll see playlists, you can actually add them to a current playlist
or you can create a new playlist.
So let's go ahead and click that, and let's put in a playlist name, we'll just call it
playlist test, and you need to choose the type of privacy.
Is it a public, unlisted, or private, for this example I'm going to go ahead and do
unlisted because I don't want it to notify all my subscribers so let's go ahead and do
that.
And you can now see that the playlist has five videos.
Now if we come over to the left-hand side here and click playlists you're able to see
that this actually created a playlist so it says "playlist test".
See how easy that is?
Let me show you another way to do this as well.
So we can go ahead in the upper right-hand corner here and click new playlist and it's
going to basically do the same thing, so we'll just type in "Playlist Test 2", then you have
your dropdowns here and we're going to do unlisted, hit create.
And it's basically going to take you to this screen.
I would encourage you to fill out a description.
Also in the settings tab, you can check your settings that are here, ok?
But what we're going to do now is add a video by a URL so we'll go ahead, this is where
it's really cool like I told you in the beginning, you can add any of your favorite videos in
a playlist.
So I like the Piano Guys, so let's go ahead I like this music, I like the videography
on it is great, it has 28 million views, and I want it on my channel.
So I do that in a playlist and I go ahead and hit done.
Now once that's done you can see that I actually created a playlist it won't appear in the
search because I have it as unlisted, if I have it as public it's going to be able to
be found and it's also going to be found in the crucial feed.
Ok so let's go ahead and click on the left-hand side here where it says playlists and the
great thing about it is you can go to any playlist, like this is the playlist that we
just created this test, and you can hit the edit button here and add more videos, so I
can go ahead and hit add a video here, so if I want to add that piano guys video, we'll
go ahead and click this and let's put this at the top, just drag it up to the top and
hit done, you're able to add videos.
Another way to do it, another way to add videos is to come up to the arrow here, go down to
video manager, and you can add an additional video by clicking this, come back up to the
playlists, and say you know I want to put this in playlist 2 and it's now in 2.
Now playlists can be really great for ranking your YouTube videos.
That's right, you heard me right, because it's all about watch time for really ranking
those videos on YouTube.
So as soon as people finish watching your first video in a playlist it automatically
starts playing the next video in the series.
Now playlists encourages more watch time and YouTube loves more watch time.
As you have more watch time on your videos and your channel you're going to get your
videos better ranked in the search.
Now in the comments below I'd love to hear how you use playlists and also how you're
going to use playlists for your channel.
Also if you're old like me tell me what your favorite mix tape is.
Now with all this talk about mix tapes look what I found!
GOLD!