 How do I premiere a video on my YouTube channel? It's a very good question. Up on the screen now is a countdown to a quiz to test our knowledge on this. But as you know, there's this thing called the YouTube Creator Academy. It's on screen now and it's where we can learn about every single aspect of YouTube and there are 40 courses. This is what they look like. At the end of each course, there's usually an exam. So we do this as a quiz and a game show that you and I can play along together and answer the questions and see which ones we get right. But it's another one of those different ones today because there's no course exam at the end of this course. There's just a three-question quiz called Check Your Knowledge. So the countdown is really long for a quiz that's really short, but you and I are gonna learn everything there is to know about premiers here on YouTube. We do this every week and you and I are gonna manage to get through all 40 courses this year. They're all in this playlist here. Hello, my name's Neil Mossy and I'm a development producer helping high achieving creators and performers just like you to get ideas out of our heads and out onto here on YouTube to make the world happier. I'm sharing my journey on YouTube right here in real time so that you can avoid all the mistakes and obstacles that I encounter. And I've got a funny feeling. This is gonna be a nice quick one. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna put the Creator Academy app on screen now so that you can follow along with the course with me. The first lesson is a two-minute video covering everything we need to know about premiers. I'll link to that up on the top of the screen now and in the description, but we'll skip that to go to the next lesson, which is how to set up a premier. Setting up a premier is simple. Once we're logged in, click the video icon at the top of YouTube and select upload video. Then follow the prompts to upload your video. Drag our video file to the center of the prompts for a quicker way to upload. Fill in the metadata in the fields provided. Then tick the box to set as premier and schedule the date and time that you'd like your video to be released. Share the events with your fans and countdown to the launch. Once scheduled, you'll be given a shareable link to the watch page where fans can engage until your premier begins. The time badge will show premier will begin shortly. When the premier is about to begin, the countdown timer will start at two minutes. Sort of looks like this. Well, I say sort of looks like this. It does look like this in 2021. Lesson three is best practices for using premiers. Promote your premier by sharing the watch page URL, teasing the premier in the community tab or across social media platforms and encourage fans to set reminders so they don't miss it. Upload a premier. I keep wanting to say premier like all the YouTube gurus and even YouTube itself calls them. I call them premiers. So I'm sorry if that's offensive to your ears. Upload a premier between 60 minutes and three hours before the release. Live chat with fans. Chat functionality is enabled before and during the premier. Here are some best practices when chatting. Actively engage with fans and be a part of the watching experience by adding talking points at certain moments in your content. How about right now? I really want to put this out as a premier. And if I have, please join in with your talking points. I'd love to hear them. Encourage fans to ask questions. Again, ask me anything. Use chat moderators as a way to help find and reply to comments more quickly. You're okay. I think I'm not gonna be snowed under with comments. Thanks for offering to help. Enable chat replay to help latecomers feel just as hyped about your premier. And finally, thank viewers who attended the premier. If you're eligible for super chat, I'm not, and have enabled this feature, I can't, tell viewers where the money is going in your premier. For example, to buy new equipment or to fund a specific project or goal, it's equipment, any money I make goes straight on equipment. Hence this, my new microphone arm that I'm trying out. Lesson four is premieres in action. And it's a PDF that you can download to go through. I'll just go through the PDF and you can pause the video at any stage that you need to. But it covers promote effectively, connect with fans, unlock new revenue, and then what to do before uploading, program strategically, timing your premier, keep it fresh, prepare to chat, promote and educate. During release, what to do there, be there for fans, make it special, add value. And then after the show, it's not over till it's over. Continued conversation, you and I can live chat with viewers for a short period following the end of a premier video, so you might give that a try. And that's it, that's all there is to the PDF. I'll put the link to that in the description as well. There goes the countdown. We've hit zero. It's time for our big quiz, the one that we do every week right here. I'll put a link to the playlist on screen and in the description. Let's dive in with question one of three questions. Which is not a way to use or promote a premier? Promote the premier URL. Promote the premier URL on other social media platforms. Live chatting with fans after the premier is over. Sharing the premier watch page as a community post or none of the above. Wow, this is tough, because I think that all three of those are things that you would do to promote a premier. I guess live chatting with fans after the premier is over isn't a way to promote the premier. So I'll go for that one. Great job. Live chatting during premieres is only before and during the premier. But after the premier, there is a chat replay option for folks who weren't there live. How many minutes is the premier countdown timer for? One, two, three or four. I'm gonna go for two. Yep, the timer starts a countdown of two minutes. Final question of the big quiz that isn't very big this week, but there's a premier attached. So I guess that balances it out. True or false? Super chat is available to anyone who has a premier. True or false? Well, I know the answer to this question because I haven't got it because I haven't hit 10,000 subscribers yet. Hint, this is perhaps a gentle nudge that you can help take me one step closer to the 10,000 subscribers goal. But I'm gonna go for false. Correct, you have to be eligible for super chat and I think you need 10,000 subscribers for that. So we'll hit submit. Quiz complete. So how did you do? Leave a comment below. It'd be lovely to hear if premieres are something that you might be having on your channel and it'd be lovely to see your channels as well. So say hi in the comments. Right here is a link to the playlist for all of my Creator Academy course exams and right here is the video that YouTube thinks you should be watching next. Thanks for joining me for this. My first premier, my premier, premier.