 If you're like me, you'll find the process of uploading videos to YouTube a little bit boring and not really the most exciting part of the process. Well, in this video, I'm gonna share with you how TubeBuddy can help you to upload your videos and speed up that process, saving you a ton of time. And also if you are new to YouTube, it can actually just walk you through the various different things that you need to do during that YouTube upload. So let's come over to my YouTube studio, shall we? I'm in the videos section, the content section. So let's just come to a video that I've uploaded, but I haven't actually done anything with it yet. So I'll just click on the little edit button here. Similarly, if you have just uploaded the video, then this will still be in that interface as well. This is just where you sort of detail all of the different things related to the video that you're uploading, title, description, tags, all that sort of stuff. So this is the regular YouTube interface, but we do have some additional elements here. First of all, let me just point out one that's right here next to my screen. This is one of the things about TubeBuddy. It just saves you time in so many different places. So if I'm editing this video, then I can see I've got a list of these at my video uploads, but I can just jump to a different one. So if I just wanted to jump to a separate video, I could just click on here instead, click on okay to discard those changes because I've done nothing there. But this is just one of the ways that TubeBuddy saves you time by enabling you to just jump back and forth between videos rather than having to go back out to the video list and then go into another video. So that's just one time-saving feature that you've got right there with TubeBuddy, but I digress slightly. Let's come down here and we'll look at the first thing that we see down here. We've got all of these YouTube things like subtitles, end screens, cards, and so on. But then we've got upload defaults. Now in YouTube, you can set a default set of parameters that you want for title, description, tags, all that sort of stuff that will just appear by default. And in fact, that's what we've got here. So my description, rather than being a blank box, it's actually got all this text in here. And this I have is kind of like a footer at the bottom of all of my descriptions with ways that people can connect with me. It's got all of my gear list and things like that, things that I want to draw people's attention to. So I have that in as a stock description. So then when I'm actually entering my actual description, all I do is I write above that and so that all appears at the bottom. So the way that you set these defaults in YouTube is if you come over to the settings down here and click on the settings, and then you've got this thing here, upload defaults. So if I click on that one, here you can see you can add a title. You might want to add a part of a title or something like that. You can add the description. So this is that description that we've just seen, all of that content. So you just add in that down there. You can change the visibility, whether you want it public, private or whatever. You can add in some tags if you want some specific tags in all of your videos. Then in the advanced section, you can change things like the category, the licensing, creative commons or YouTube licensing, whatever it is, the language, all that sort of stuff. So you can change all of these. And then you've also got some monetization options where you can change what you want, the type of ads that you're going to place in there if indeed you are monetized at that stage. But like I say, the default in or the option that you have in YouTube is to either use this or not basically. So there is only one particular sort of setup for this. With TubeBuddy though, you do have the option to add in multiple upload defaults. So here you can see that I've created some for various different things that I use commonly. So I do a lot of videos about Ecamm Live, do a lot of videos about Stream Deck, do a lot of videos about setup. I should probably do one for my productivity in there actually, although I'm often talking about different apps. So perhaps it doesn't make total sense. But you can see that I've got these different defaults and I've got one down here for TubeBuddy as well. So basically you can set all of those things exactly as we've just looked at, but on multiple different profiles where you might want to have different types of ads on some, you might want to have different categories for some or whatever it happens to be. So that then, once you've set that up though in the settings just down here at the bottom left, once you've set that up, when you come to upload a new video, you can just come here to the upload defaults and you can decide which of those profiles you want to use for this particular video. And you can also set whether you want to apply it specifically for the title, the description or whatever. So for this particular video, it is a TubeBuddy video. So let me use that. I haven't made the title yet and there's no title selected. So let me just uncheck that one because I don't want to apply just a total blank field to the title. I've just got the file name sitting up there at the moment. I will come and edit all this afterwards. But let's say I want to change the description, the tags, the visibility and the advanced settings to those ones that I've set as my TubeBuddy default. Well, if I click on apply, then this is just going to take a moment to basically go through and add in all those things. It's going to update the description. It's going to add in the tags that I want and all of those other settings. And as you can see, this is how long it takes. So this is all time that it saved me because it would have taken me a lot longer to go through and actually change all of these things. And then you can see now we've got some tags in, we've got the TubeBuddy description that I want to have and then all of those other settings have propagated as well. So that is the first thing in terms of uploading. As you can see there, it can save you a lot of time if you're doing different types of videos that you want different settings for. Next, we've got this Best Practices. This is the thing that really was valuable to me when I was first starting out just because it actually told me pretty much what I needed to do because I was new to YouTube, I didn't really know what I needed to do in terms of these various different things. Here it does give you a great little explanation of them, so adding chapters. It tells you what the chapters are. Those are where people have timestamps in their videos so that you can jump directly to a particular section. And so there are great little sort of useful things here. If you actually click on these little links, it will give you more information about what it is. So it really was a useful tool for me to actually learn what I needed to do and what all these different things were. Then you can also go through here, add chapters, get a like on Facebook so it will allow you to share this out and then see if somebody's liked it on Facebook. And this is all about obviously driving more traffic back to YouTube in that context. You've also got add info cards so that is the kind of, you know, check out this video up in the top corner that people often do. I don't do that as much these days. Used to in the early days of my videos try and put those in all the way through. But actually it's a bit of a counterintuitive that is really because you're then sending people off out of the video that they're just watching. So what I've learned to do now is use those sparingly and more in the final parts of the video when people are more likely to be potentially getting ready to switch off from that video in any case and, you know, seeing the end of the videos approaching. So linking out to other videos or if I look at the analytics and I see there is a particular drop-off point with their retention where I must have been getting a bit too boring and droning on, then adding an info card at that point would be useful. But in any case, it's just prompting you here to say that there are no info cards in this particular video. Add an end screen. So that is, you know, where you're linking to other videos at the very end. YouTube gives you 20 seconds at the end where you can put up links to other videos, other playlists, subscribe button, all that sort of stuff. So that's just prompting me to say that I haven't done that yet. There is, by the way, templates for these things. So info card templates, I could just click on here and apply one of my templates. I could just click in here and apply a template. So rather than going into the end screen section like this and clicking in and choosing the end screen, you can see how I can apply a TubeBuddy template from in here as well. But there's no need to go into this because you can just literally do it from here. So again, another time-saving thing, not just for the ability to even create templates, but that you can just apply them from down here rather than having to go into some other menu or whatever. Then just prompting me to add it to a playlist, adding more tags. So we did have that sort of number of tags that were added in as part of this upload default. So here you can see some tags have been added in for me because of the ones I'd set in the default. But this is just prompting me to say there is space to add in more tags. Next is add tags to your title. So prompting me to just make sure that the tags that I've got in my tags field are relevant to what's in my title and in my description and things like that. And you can see here, these are all of the ones that are left to be complete out of the nine best practices. But you can see there are two of nine already completed. So you can show those if you want as well. So if you show those, they appear at the top with little ticks next to them. So basically the default behavior of this is it hides the ones that you have already done. So what that means is if you can see anything in this best practices box, it means there's something left for you to do. And that's why I say again, when I was just starting out, it was useful to give me this sort of list of things I needed to do. But even now it just acts as a visual cue that, hang on, there's something in that box. That means there's something that I need to go and check out and do. And in this case, this was adding captions and the title length. So this doesn't really tell you about what's put in your title. It's just saying that the length of the title is not too short and not too long. Obviously that is not a good title. So the way that we would actually craft a title would be using the keyword explorer, which we're talking about in a moment. But still on this page though, as part of the uploads, we've also got tags, coming back to tags again. We've also got some tools for tags, which is, you can create tag lists in here. So if I was to take all of these tags here, I can first of all do a couple of things. If I click on copy, then here you can see you've got a couple of options. These are all the tags that is just pulled out of the tags box. And you can either copy them to the clipboard. So let's say you've got some tags in here related to a video. Maybe you were gonna do a blog post about it or something like that. You wanted to copy them out or wanted to copy them out for some other reason. You can just copy them to the clipboard that way. You can also create tag lists. And so here, if I wanted to create a new tag list from those particular tags, I could click on new tag list here. And then I could also, if I wanted to, add these tags to an existing list. So these are some of the tag lists that I've got. And I could just add those tags to that list. So where it says copy to tag list, just click on the one you want and it will add those tags into that list. Now, if this was completely blank or you wanted to add some additional tags, then we've also here got import. So if I click on import, here you'll see my tag lists, what I was just talking about. And so here is my list of tag lists. And then in each of those, if I click into one of them, what you'll see is all the tags are related to that particular tag list. And now I can either go through and sort of manage these. So if I wanted to add a new one to this particular list here, I could just come up here, write the tag and click add. So it would add it into this particular tag list. But if I decided, yes, I want to actually add these tags into this particular video, if I just click on insert, what you'll see is, look, no hands, but it is actually going through and physically populating all of those tags into that tag field. So that is just another thing that, coming back to this time-saving factor, I'm not having to physically type those out, it is just manually going and putting those in for me, or I should say, automatically putting them in for me. You've also got some other tools down here, some more tag tools, which is basically recommending tags for you. So it's looking at your description and title and all that sort of stuff and existing tags. And then it is just suggesting some for you. So rather than having to type these out, you can just come and have a look and say, okay, I want this one, maybe this one as well, how to use TubeBuddy to get views on YouTube and so on. So these are just a way that you can easily just come and grab some of these. It does have these little sort of scores next to them in terms of how relevant they are. And you can search tags by either relevance. So this is how relevant they are to the video. You can also search by keyword score as well. So looking for things where you've got really good keyword score with the, which we'll look at with the keyword analyzer and then you've also got various different ones here. You can also search by search traffic as well. So this is based on the volume that has been driven to your video. Now this is saying, look, sorry, no videos have been driven to this video through YouTube search. So this is one that you'll have a look at like after you've started to get traffic to your video and it will find out what the search terms that people have been using to find your video so that you can actually add those in as tags to improve on the click-throughs that you're getting basically, or the search results that you're getting, I should say. Now I will just draw one thing to your attention with tags. I do need to mention this because I went for several months without even noticing this was here. In fact, I've just noticed in this recommended tags, look Nick Nimmin is recommended in there. Well, what I'm about to tell you, I heard from his brother, Dean Nimmin. So here it says, tags can be useful if content in your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise tags play a minimal role in helping viewers find your video. So just bear that in mind. That said, it is still here as a feature for you to use. So I'd recommend still using it. Don't just leave it completely blank. But it has given you a little bit of a clue there. Tags can be useful if content in your video is commonly misspelled. So think about putting misspellings and things like that, things that people might search for in a slightly incorrect way that you can think to include in there, common misspellings and things like that, that will still help your video get found. So that is just something to bear in mind. But a far better way to focus your attention is on basically the keywords that you're using in your videos. And that's what the Keyword Explorer does. And in the next video, I'm gonna be telling you all about the Keyword Explorer and how you can use it to basically craft better titles and descriptions.