 If you're trying to grow your YouTube channel and want some help with your things like titles and descriptions and so on, then this video might just be for you. Hello and welcome to Take One Tech, my name is Alec and today we're gonna talk about a little tool that you might be interested in that could help you with your YouTube channel. Now I'm not here to give you expert advice on growing a YouTube channel because as you may know, my channel's only been around for about three weeks. So I'm hardly the person to give you expert advice on how to reach those millions of subscribers that you may be striving for. However, what I can tell you is a little tool that I've been using myself, which I found really useful. It's actually helped me in terms of, as I say, getting those titles right, the descriptions, tags and things like that and finding topics and so on. And that's something called TubeBuddy. Now I covered this in a recent live stream, so I thought what I'd do is I'd just actually extract that from the live stream and drop it into the rest of this video to save you having to watch the whole stream in case you're not interested. But just in case you are, then I'll link to that actual full live stream just up above because in it I cover four other tools that I have subscribed to that also help me with my channel. So TubeBuddy is something that basically it helps you with structuring your video content, finding things like tags, setting up your channel page and things like that on YouTube. It is your sort of little assistant if you like for YouTube. And I've found it really useful in helping me set up those things, my channel description, setting up the tags, things like that that I need to have. But then also when I create the videos and upload them, as I mentioned, I make the videos in Ecamm Live and have them just automatically go to YouTube after I've finished or upload them to YouTube after I've finished. But then I need to go in and sort of edit those things. And I'll show you what that looks like at the moment when you're in the interface. Let me just get this little window out of the way here. Sorry about this, one second. Whoops, I've got a couple of windows right where I don't want them at the moment. Okay, so I'll go over to my screen sharing. There we go. So now we've in, this is basically the TubeBuddy homepage. And yet you can follow the link down below or rather just literally just below in the screen here. I'll just take that off for the moment so it doesn't totally block out everything that we're talking about. But I'll put it up again afterwards. So yeah, this is the TubeBuddy website. And I'll just go now over to, if I go over to which screen is it on. So this is my YouTube studio where I upload the videos and things like that. And you can see that actually TubeBuddy, once you've installed it, it is in fact a sort of fully, it comes across as fully integrated as part of the YouTube studio experience. So you can see that the body button, the body button, the button for it is up at the top here. And if you click on that, it's got some, basically, this is how you access most of the functionality. But it does also have some links to some of the things in YouTube which are sort of a bit, not really hidden, but they're perhaps a bit hard to sort of navigate to. So rather than having to go through, for example, if you want to go to your live streams, then if I was in my, if I was just in my sort of dashboard here, then if I go to content and then I go here to live streams, it's like a couple of clicks away. This is perhaps a bad example because it's not actually that deep, is it? But from here, basically, there is shortcuts to different things such as live streams, videos, your playlists, any comments, analytics, and all that sort of stuff. So it gives you some little shortcuts in there. But then it's also got these other tools. So keyword explorer, that allows you to enter a keyword and then it will tell you, well, let's have a look, shall we? I can even just give you a quick example of that right now. So if I enter a keyword, so let me try Ecamm Live since I do love it so much. It gives you some examples there, but let's say Ecamm Live for Mac. And what it does is it will show you the overall score for that particular keyword. So, and then it will show you why. So it tells you what the search volume is, but then also how much competition there is and then the optimized strength. So how optimized the top ranking videos are for the phrase. So basically, it's showing you how many people are looking for it, how much competition there is for it and essentially how good the competition is. And you would expect that the Ecamm Live community to be quite a sort of savvy audience since they are actually doing this. They are actually creating the content. So they will obviously have quite a good insight into how to set this stuff all up. But bear in mind, this is just one keyword. So you would use multiple keywords in your videos. And so you might not get the best results from this particular one or I may not in this case, but there may be plenty of other ones. And in fact, here you can see related searches. So it will show you all the different plugins, sorry, all the different keywords. And so you can just go through and tick which ones you want and either add them to your video or you can actually create lists of keywords as well. So if you are making videos or live streams about multiple different things quite regularly, then you can just click them all and add them to a topic planner or a list, create a list. And then you've got that list then. So every time you do a video on that topic, you can drop them in. The topic planner, by the way, is just, it's just allows you to sort of, if you've got any ideas, you can just jot down the ideas in there of videos that you want to make. And then you can add the tags to there as you can see there. There is an app for TubeBuddy as well, which is quite good. I only use it really for just having a quick look to see the statistics of the channel and also it tells you things that you can do to improve your videos. And I'll come to that a little bit later as well. So what else does TubeBuddy allow you to do? Yeah, I mentioned the topic planner. You've got SEO tools there as well, tag lists that were talked about. So anything you look at in the Keyword Explorer will come up in that tags list. Best time to publish. So it will look at your videos and tell you when the best time to publish is. And click Magnet. I have to say I haven't actually used this particular one. That's why it is a beta feature at the moment now. Let me just close that down. So the other way that I've been using TubeBuddy mainly, apart from setting up my channel itself and the description and things like that and helping me to do that, what I'll show you is when you actually go to upload a video. So this is actually already uploaded obviously, but it's a good example because I haven't actually gone into this one. I uploaded this yesterday and I haven't actually gone in to update the details fully. So I have put in a title and a description, but what I haven't done is some of the other things. And what you'll notice is down this side here, you've got these TubeBuddy. So there's different defaults that you can add. I've not actually done that yet, as you can see. Full things like descriptions and end cards which are where the video is ending. And then there's different things that you can link to at the end. You can set those up as defaults and all that sort of stuff. What's been quite useful for me is this best practices. So here it will tell you there's sort of nine best practices and it will show you which ones you've done. So for example, make sure you've got enough tags. So down at the bottom, you can see the tags. So it will show you if you've got enough tags and sort of prompt you to add more if you haven't. Added it to a playlist. So I have added this video to a playlist already. Add the end screen. So that's the one where at the end of the screen when I sign off, then there's a little link that you can link to other videos or playlists or things like that. Get a like on Facebook. So I have actually posted it to Facebook. And then the title between 20 and 70 characters. And you can notice that it does actually give you a little bit more information about each of those as well. So it's not just a little check mark. So yet the title is actually exactly 70 characters by a strange fluke. So then if I show you the things that I haven't yet done, add chapters. So the chapter marks are those little things that you see on a video all the way through sometimes, which sort of has little lines in the timeline. And when you hover over them, it will tell you the name of the chapter. I'll show you an example of how you do that because it's really quite simple. I just haven't got round to doing it for this one yet that I posted yesterday. Add chapters, heart a comment. So just heart somebody's comment that they've posted. Then add info cards. So those are the little things that I've mentioned today already, which is when somebody says I'll pop a little link up in the top corner, then those are info cards. So if you've got any things that are relevant to the topic of the video that you want to link to, so I use that for linking to other videos of mine really, then you can always drop those in. So it's prompting me to do that. Add tags to your title. So yeah, there's a, and the thing about that is it's important that you do have, you basically want the content of the video, the description, the title and the tags to all be sort of one cohesive thing. So that from a search perspective, I guess from YouTube's point of view, they want to see that your content is relevant to your description, is relevant to your title, is relevant to your tags. So here probably in my title, use Ecamm Live and Stream Deck to produce videos on the fly, no edits. Then what I should probably be doing is checking my tags to see if I've got something that actually says that. And in fact here, I've got use Ecamm Live with and Stream Deck. So probably what might help is if I just do this now. In fact, I'll just add that as a tag because I've got it the other way around, Stream Deck with Ecamm Live. So there we go. If I drop that into there. Typical. There we go. So let's save that and see if that has actually just helped me eliminate that one thing. Now what you will have to do is add tags to your title. So if I come out of this and then if I go back into it again afterwards, typical isn't it for a demonstration, things always seem to slow down to a snail's pace. But if I go back into this one now, what I'm hoping is that that little note there will have gone. So yeah, you can see that it's gone. So now there's now six completed and I've just got these other four to do. I won't bore you with those doing them live now. I'll go back and do those afterwards. But in terms of those chapter markers that I mentioned, if I go to something like this one, then I can show you it is a really simple job to actually add those in because it's basically just text. All you do is you add text into your description somewhere and it has to have this format of a zero zero time with what that is. And then you just add in the times for the different things that you've want chapter markers for. And then whatever you type here will appear as chapter markers. So all I do is I go through and watch the video, actually watch it at double speed. By the way, I recommend watching my videos double speed because when I watch them at single speed they do seem a little bit slow whereas sped up they seem to iron out some of the pauses and gaps that I take as I struggle to eliminate ums and urs from my delivery. But anyway, so yeah, you just add it in like that as text in your description and then it pops into the timeline. So that's quite clever. It's pretty easy to do. The end screen, that's the other one that it mentions that I mentioned before and that's simply when you've done a video it shows you like you can position elements. So for example, this one here is my little subscribe button and then I've got these two videos panels here. And so you can see on the timeline what is coming into there. So here I've got it linking to some gear reviews and the latest streams. And the way I have it done is this little outro animation. In fact, I can probably play it for you just quickly to sort of illustrate the point. Hoping that this doesn't start the thing. So this little animation here that I've got basically plays at the end of the video. And so that allows me to give my little outro. And if you just notice if I just play that quickly again you'll notice that these two panels come up first and then there's a pause of about 10 seconds or so and then or five seconds and then this panel goes to yellow and it adds on the subscribe comment. And you can see that in there there are no videos or no subscribe button and that's because that is done through this panel. So that is how I get it to come up with the playlists and the videos first and then the subscribe afterwards. Now you can go through and change exactly what videos you want. I tend to this one particular in particular has two playlists but what you can do and what I've started doing actually is having one video is just I let YouTube choose it and it chooses the video which it thinks is most appropriate to the viewer. So obviously if you have just watched the entire playlist and then you'd finished this video and it was the last one there's no point showing you another link to that same playlist if you've already watched it. So YouTube can just sort of suggest a video. So I tend to have latest videos and or if there's a particularly relevant playlist and then let YouTube choose the other one and yet this is just the subscribe button that will pop up to if somebody did actually tap on that that would be a shortcut for them to subscribe. So that was a little bit of a digression because you can actually apply a template in there as well with TubeBuddy. So yeah, I'm kind of getting off the topic of TubeBuddy a little bit there but I will just pop up that link again so that if you do want to check out TubeBuddy the cost of that one is let me just check. Yeah, $7.20 a month but if you've got less than 1,000 subscribers and I'm quite significantly less than 1,000 subscribers then it's half price. So it's only like $3 a month but I do think that it has certainly helped me in terms of at least almost learning how to optimize my videos or learning how to populate the information correctly and it's just a good sort of visual cue as well to make sure it serves as a sort of checklist. So you can see in this video I've actually done everything that TubeBuddy told me and it said all best practices complete. So yeah, for a couple of dollars a month or three or four dollars a month it certainly seems a worthwhile addition to my list of subscriptions. I hope you found that useful and if you did find it useful then don't forget to hit the like and subscribe so that you get notified of any future videos I make. If you've got any questions or comments about TubeBuddy or anything in general then you can leave those down below as well. So that's all for me today. I look forward to seeing you in one of the other videos which I've linked up here and until the next time, have a great day.