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How To Edit A YouTube Video AFTER Upload
YouTube provides many tools inside of the Studio dashboard that aim to help make the creator’s process easier. One such tool is the Editor feature, available for all uploaded videos. What can you do with it? The YouTube editor is found in the YouTube Studio dashboard. You can go into the Content menu and select…
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Here’s Why Many Millions of Creators on YouTube Have Just Received the Community Tab
October 2021 – just over a year ago, YouTube dropped the requirement for the Community tab and posting features from 1000 subscribers to just 500. Creators were still settling into that new paradigm. Smaller channels had a new mid-way goal on their way to the 1000 subscribers required to get into the YouTube Partner Program…
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The YouTube Feature Streamers Are Sleeping On
YouTube has been all-in on live streaming for a long time. For the past 5 plus years, they have been slowly adding functionality to their live streaming bag of tricks. With the announcement earlier this year and late last year of even more functionality heading our way, there is one recently added feature that not…
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YouTube Creators CAN Customize Their Playlist Tab – Here’s How!
Most YouTubers know that the Home page on their channel is very customizable in regards to how the “shelves” are presented. Horizontal and Vertical playlists, live streams, shorts, Member’s Only videos, and more. But what about the Playlist tab? On the surface, it appears to be a summary of Created Playlists under that very title.…
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YouTube Thumbnails Are Hard – But They Don’t Have to Be…
Any new or even more seasoned YouTube creator will tell you thumbnails are a tricky beast to master. Gaining the skills of a graphic designer whilst trying to also learn compelling and enticing as a matter of course can be a long road to walk down. The latter can be expedited by finding a good…
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Featuring Other Channels on Your YouTube Channel – The Channel Tab
You never hear much about the Channel tab. Every YouTube channel has one. Typically you’ll learn over time to optimize the Home tab, Playlists, and even how to use your Community tab (once you get it at 500 subscribers). But what about the Channel tab? What’s it there for? If you have your subscriptions set…
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Changing Your YouTube Profile Picture is Easy in 2021
In the past, YouTube have made you jump through extra hoops to update your profile picture, especially on mobile. Desktop users had a few ways of doing it, but there was some variables in the past. Today, YouTube have provided us with a central hub for the customisation of our channels, which includes your channel…
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Use Your Elgato Stream Desk to Moderate Live Streams!
The Elgato Stream Deck has been the go-to control interface for streamers for a few years now. Typical uses include running your streaming software, sound effects, controlling your Elgato Lights and many other integrations with platforms and third party add-ons. The streamer has had the ability to drop customised chat messages directly to their live…
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How to Upload YouTube Shorts – Early 2021 Edition
Since the latter part of 2020, YouTube have been pushing a new type of content on their platform called Shorts. Shorts are meant to be a competitor to the hugely popular Tik Tok platform that has been taking the world by storm in the last year or two. Other platforms are also weighing in with…
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