Category: YouTube
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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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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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YouTube Studio Updated With Channel Customization Menu
Over the last few weeks, YouTube have been rolling out a new menu in creator’s Studio dashboard. This menu item called Customization combines all the channel layout features into one central location. I was fortunate to be one of the earliest channels to receive the update as it rolled out over a 2 week period. […]
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YouTube Chapters – Your Quick-Start Primer
Very recently, YouTube have rolled out a new feature to creators to enhance their viewer’s experience on YouTube in navigating videos – Chapters. Chapters are, as the name implies, sections of your video divided into topics, points, or other logical separation of thoughts within a piece of content. Chapters appear as clickable elements as you […]
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Schedule On Desktop, Go Live on Mobile!
This one is for all you YouTubers out there! Ever wanted to schedule your live stream in advance from your YouTube dashboard on your main computer, but plan to stream when out and about on your mobile? Well you CAN! In this video, I show you how step by step. This is what you’re going […]
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YouTube’s New End Screen Editor – Tutorial
In the ever inevitable march towards the new YouTube Studio becoming the one and only creator tool, YouTube have recently released a fresh End Screen editor for Studio. In the video below, I walk through the new layout and show how easy it is to add videos, playlists, links and subscribe icons to your video’s […]
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Creator Insider Tom Leung Hints at New Features Coming to Studio
In a recent Twitter discussion, Tom Leung, Director of Product Management at YouTube shared some insights into possible upcoming features for YouTube Studio. One is imminent, and the other is some ways off. Firstly, just around the corner is the ability to bulk upload, a feature that was in Studio Classic, but not seen in […]
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