Ideas for Customizing YouTube's RSS Feeds [Creator's Tip #19]

http://www.reelseo.com/customizing-your-youtube-rss-feed/ ► We're all pretty familiar with YouTube's subscription feature that lets viewers easily subscribe to our channels and new content we upload here to YouTube, but what if most of our audience is outside of YouTube? What if YouTube subscribers isn't really the best option for our video content?

Thankfully, there's another way viewers can subscribe to our video content on YouTube and that's by using their built-in RSS feeds. Not only are there RSS feeds for our channel and recent uploads, but the RSS feed is completely customizable.

In fact, thanks to YouTube's Interactive API Demo, you can make changes right on the fly to your RSS feed and see the results each tweak will make. Furthermore, you can create YouTube vanity search RSS feeds, feeds of your friends' activity, your subscriptions, feeds with videos optimized for mobile devices, and so much more.

In this episode of Creator's Tip, we discuss some ideas of how you could use these RSS feeds to offer alternative subscription methods and options to your viewers, how to plug them into iOS and Android apps, setup your own email notification list for new subscribers using MailChimp, and more!

QUESTION: How could you best use a YouTube RSS feed?

RSS IN PLAIN ENGLISH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU

RSS FEED FOR YOUR RECENT CHANNEL UPLOADS
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/videos?alt=rss&orderby=published&...

INTERACTIVE YOUTUBE API DEMO BETA
http://rseo.co/rGYXR1

MAILCHIMP
http://rseo.co/uHsJFJ

MAILCHIMP RSS TO EMAIL TUTORIAL
http://rseo.co/ucOGb8

FEEDBURNER
http://rseo.co/sVzk6L

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE RSS FEED
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReelSEOVideos

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST!
http://rseo.co/ReelSEOemail

SUBSCRIBE FOR OTHER VIDEO TIPS AND NEWS!
http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=reelseo

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[carmensognonvi]

Very cool tips - thanks Tim! One cool application might be to create different playlists on different topics you cover, create a custom RSS feed for each, and then use those to create widgets in the sidebar of your blog.

[reelseo]

@carmensognonvi That's a great idea, Carmensognonvi!! I love that! Have you done it?

[coinoptv]

bloopers!

[reelseo]

@coinoptv haha want more of them again? Haven't had as many as I did in earlier videos.

[ShizoluckyShizostar]

Is it just me or youtube disabled RSS as of today?!

[ynhwebdev]

The Newsletter Mailer on codecanyon is cool alternative to MailChimp

[MrDitmarVisser]

@reelseo if i just type it in the addressbar it works, so maybe try that?

[MrDitmarVisser]

@reelseo this is very weird... the url is exactly what it is supposed to be... very strange

[MrDitmarVisser]

@reelseo mmm i will send you a PM with the link. see if it works then.

[reelseo]

@MrDitmarVisser Just tested it myself and got "Invalid Request URI." Weird. I'll have to look into that a bit before posting it. Is there anything mission from the URL?