vidIQ, can you send me an email on the top trending videos over the last week on fidget
spinners.
Yes, yes it can.
Hello every and welcome back to another round of vidIQ awesome sauce and this week's cherry
on the top is a tool that helps you find the most popular videos on Youtube right now on
any given topic or channel.
And once you've found them it can alert you to new updates as frequently as you like.
It's call trend alerts and this is how you use it.
With vidIQ's chrome extension installed the Trend Alerts tab sits at the top of the creator
studio panel which you see whenever you are managing your channel.
When clicked a popup will appear where you can setup your first alert.
There are many different ways you can use this tool but here's three ideas you can start
with.
First we'll create an alert to follow a super trending topic.
First give your Trend an Alert name.
Free users can setup 1 alerts with other tiers displayed on screen now.
Next up you need add some keywords by which to define your alert.
You can use more than one and you should separate each keyword or phrase with a comma.
We'll keep it nice and simple for this example and go with fidget spinners.
In this example we're going to skip the middle competitors section and move straight to VPH
which stands for views per hour.
This ensures the video is still popular and therefore trending.
Fidget spinners are still a huge topic right now so let's crank that up to 5K VPH, for
free users this is defaulted to 1K VPH.
Email Frequency determines how often the alert is calculated whether it be every day, 2 days,
each week or each month.
Again this is defaulted to every week for free users.
Frequency is important to bear in mind.
With big news stories you might want to set the frequency to every day, for longer trends
such as fidget spinners then maybe every week will suffice.
When you're ready click create alert and that will give you a preview of the sort of results
you may expect to see.
Notice how this list is sorted by views per hour so it reflects the most watched videos
right now.
From here you can click on the video to view and conduct further research using the vidIQ
video scorecard to see engagement rates, SEO score, channel information, tags used and
all the other awesome stuff vidIQ provides.
This tool in itself is really useful for discovering trending videos on the topics that matter
to you, but remember this isn't just a search tool, it's an alert tool too...
oh, what's that?
That is the vidIQ trend alert email listing all the videos that fit your criteria: the
perfect way to see what's trending (in this case over the last week) in the world of fidget
spinners.
Each video includes when it was published, total video views, current VPH rate and how
many new subscribers the video earned for its channel
And these alert emails will continue to land in your inbox at the set frequency.
At any time you can return to the Trend Alerts screen to edit an alert or delete it.
Those are your basics to using the Trend Alerts tool, another vidiq feature that aims to help
you get more views in less time.
But since we're done with the basics, let's show another couple of ways we think this
tool can used.
A few weeks ago we introduced a competitor's tool that allows you to add any channel you
want to a special watch list that focuses on VPH.
We've already made a video on how to use this tool specifically, but what we've also done
is tie the competitor tool into the trend alerts tool.
So when you create a new alert instead of search for trending keywords, you can track
videos from your competitors to see which videos are trending on their channel over
a set period of time.
Depending on the size of the channels you are tracking you might need to lower the VPH
threshold down to 100 but once you have you'll get the same list of alerts as you do for
keywords sent straight to your email inbox so you never forget what your competitors
are up to.
Alternatively if you want to look at the whole of Youtube I'm sure you'll be aware of the
trending page, well consider our trending tool the enhanced version of this page.
If you create an alert with no keywords or competitors you can then set the frequency
to see what videos on the whole of Youtube are trending over the last day, 2 days, week
or month.
And don't forget, that trend alert will email you too.
If you want to refine the search a little you can add a general keyword such as politics,
technology.
fashion, business and so on.
We like to think of the trend alerts feature as a sandbox tool ready for interpretation
however you see fit so we'd love to hear your thoughts on how you intend to use and what
features you would like to see added.
That's it for this week, enjoy the rest of your video making day.
Bye for now.