Category: YouTube

• March 21, 2023

  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…
• November 18, 2022

  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…
• April 20, 2022

  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…
• March 13, 2022

  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.…
• May 25, 2021

  YouTube Shorts Permissions – What It Is and Why YouTube Dropped the Ball

  A few “short” weeks ago, a strange option started showing up in creator’s video settings. A small section that was titled “Shorts Permissions”. The short paragraph explanation was finished off with a bold, already checked check box that clearly stated “Allow people to sample this content”. Well the mysterious appearance of this on creator’s video…
• March 7, 2021

  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…
• October 12, 2020

  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.…
• June 3, 2020

  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…
• April 8, 2020

  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…
• March 19, 2020

  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…