Here’s how to find the BEST time to publish YOUR YouTube videos to help drive more views
FOR FREE!
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Hello TubeBuddies!
When it comes to YouTube knowing when to publish your videos and even live streams is IMPORTANT,
but how do you know which time is best?
That’s where using YouTube’s data and this FREE TubeBuddy feature comes into play.
We want to help YOU find the best time to publish a video or even start a livestream
on YouTube.
Knowing the best time to publish content is important for two reasons.
The first reason is you want to be consistently publishing videos when your audience is online,
so they know when to expect your videos.
The second reason is you want people watching your videos right when you publish them, because
that helps YouTube know how and IF they should promote your videos to a wider audience.
Speaking of audiences, let’s keep your audience or viewer in mind and find the best time to
publish by heading over to YouTube.
On Youtube click the TubeBuddy drop down menu in the top right hand corner.
Once the TubeBuddy menu opens, find extension tools.
Under Extension tools you’ll see our Best time to publish feature.
Click on it, to open our FREE best time to publish tool.
You’ll see our best time to publish tool right under YouTube’s own “When your viewers
are on YouTube” graph.
What our tool does is analyzes YouTube’s chart and makes it much easier to read.
We take all of that data from YouTube and give you recommendations for the best time
to publish a video or start a live stream.
We’ll cover the difference between a video upload and live stream later!
Let’s first focus on weekly vs. daily.
Looking at weekly, we then break it down to which day of the week would be best to publish
a video or stream BASED on YouTube’s data above.
For us at TubeBuddy it’s Wednesday at 5:00 am Pacific Daylight Time as you can see here.
If you only upload once per week like we do at TubeBuddy, weekly is the best time to publish/
stream based on the data we’ve collected.
Under weekly we give you the daily break down on when would be the best time to publish
or start a live stream.
Daily is useful If you upload videos or stream multiple times per week or you just prefer
to upload on a certain day.
TubeBuddy’s daily recommendation gives you the best time for that particular day based
on our calculations using the data from YouTube’s chart above!
However we want to know!
What is the best time for YOU to publish a video or start a live stream?
Be sure to let us know in the comments down below.
While we have your attention there are some important things to know about this information!
As YouTube says “ Publish time is not known to directly affect the long-term performance
of a video” What this means is just because you either upload or stream at this time,
it doesn’t guarantee you MILLIONS of views right at that time or immediately right after.
It just helps you earn views out of the gate.
Also since YouTube’s data is based on 28 days, this data can change over time, HOPEFULLY
to match the data we have here!
If you want more information on anything found in this tool.
You can hover over this question mark, to see a TubeBuddy tool tip.
You can also click on the “How are recommendations calculated?”
down here to see more information .
Speaking of more information I promised more on best time to publish a Live Streams VS
a regular Uploaded Videos.
When WE as creators upload a video, TubeBuddy takes into account the first 12 hours after
the upload when calculating TubeBuddy recommendations however, with livestreams, this is not the
case.
When it comes to livestreams, it’s all about being live right when your audience is most
active on YouTube.
So when TubeBuddy calculates your best time to livestream, we look at every single hour
during the week but only take into account that hour and the following hour when YouTube
identifies a large amount of your viewers are online.
When it comes to the best time to publish a video or start a live stream on YouTube,
we always recommend that you look at the data and then do what’s best for YOU, the creator.
What we do here at TubeBuddy is look at the best time to publish, so for our example is
5:00 am and then we recommend maybe publishing 15 minutes before or 15 minutes after to not
get buried into the YouTube feeds.
Do you want to learn about more free tools like this one?
Subscribe and ring that bell to be notified on all Tubebuddy tools!
Want to learn how to earn views with TubeBuddy?
Then click on that video that’s been on screen!
I’m Andrew Kan from TubeBuddy, now let’s find our best time to publish a video or start
a live stream!