 In this video, I'm going to give you an introduction to TubeBuddy so that you can understand how it can help you to grow your YouTube channel. I've been using TubeBuddy since day one on my channel. In fact, I installed it before I even uploaded my first video, and it really has been a real help in terms of helping me in the early days to understand what I even needed to do to get my videos uploaded, making sure I'd got titles, descriptions, tags, thumbnails, all that sort of stuff all in order with some great sort of checklist functionality which I'll be touching on a little bit later. But then as I've grown the channel as well, it's got a whole suite of tools that are really going to help you optimize your channel and get more views, more click-throughs onto your videos, and basically a higher retention once people are there as well, and hopefully get them clicking onto the videos that follow as well. So it really is a great tool. So this is actually the first in a series of videos where I'll be covering all of the different features of TubeBuddy, and I'll also be talking about the different pricing plans as well so that you can understand what all the features are in the pricing plans and then understand what all the different features do, and then you can decide and evaluate which one is right for you. Now I will first of all, before we have a look at the pricing plans, I'll just show you basically where TubeBuddy fits into the YouTube studio because it really is a part of the YouTube studio, and having used it since day one on YouTube, I would feel a little bit lost without it to be honest, and let me just show you what I'm talking about. So here is the YouTube studio interface. TubeBuddy is just all throughout this in lots of different places. So you'll notice it wherever you see the little TubeBuddy logo. So first of all, right on the front page of YouTube studio, we've got all these other elements that are YouTube elements, you know, your account, your creative video, upload a video, all this sort of stuff, various different things over here, but we've got TubeBuddy right here at the top. Clicking on this opens up a separate TubeBuddy menu, and you've got a whole load of different tools and things like that that you've got easy quick access to here right from the front of YouTube studio. I'll be going through all of these different tools in detail, though they all warrant a video to show you how to use them and how they can help you. There's also some really handy little shortcuts here to be able to navigate around the YouTube interface. So although you have got obviously menus in YouTube to go to your, you know, videos and playlists and things like that, once you start going into those different sections, you then have to sort of navigate your way back out to find something else that you want. Well here, you can just always just hop around to whatever space you want to in the YouTube interface, and it's quite a time-save it really, and that is one of the core features of TubeBuddy is the amount of time that it can save. And whenever I'm thinking about, you know, different products and services, I always think about, well, how much time can they actually save me, and what's my time worth, and therefore, you know, what's the product worth to me. And spoiler alert, this is a really valuable resource at a very affordable price and certainly pays for itself many times over. So we've also got some extension tools here, so these are things that sit in the YouTube Studio interface, so they open up within YouTube Studio. Again, we'll be going through all of these. You've also got some website tools, so as well as all of the tools that you get embedded in the YouTube Studio interface itself, there is also a whole suite of tools as well that are sort of separate on the TubeBuddy website. So I'll just hop over to the website. So here we are on the TubeBuddy website logged into my account, and you can see we've got all of these different tools down the side here. And I'll be going through these ones as well, but there's lots to do with your videos, so the videos that are on there, things to do with search, competitor analysis, brand alerts, AB testing for split testing, really valuable tool that one is. I'll definitely be covering that one in detail and lots of other features. So these are all on the TubeBuddy website, but back into the YouTube Studio. So this is just this first menu that we've looked at here at the top of the page. If I come out of there for a moment, TubeBuddy is, like I say, really embedded into the interface. So if I, for example, come over to the content section where you'll find all of your video uploads, then in here it features, again, in a few places. So first of all, we've got it sitting right up here in the menu at the top. So from here, we've got a whole series of other things that we can do, like find and replace, adding in text to your titles and descriptions and things like that. That one I'm really fond of. It's helped me and saved me a lot of time when I wanted to go and add in a load of links to the bottom of all of my descriptions, for example. Or when I launched my Ecom Live Masterclass, I've got 80 videos plus on my site, all about Ecom Live. So I thought, well, wouldn't it be great to be able to go and add in a link to the course in every one of those videos? Find and replace is your friend there. So I'll be talking all about that one. We've got other bulk edit things, such as adding the cards. So that's where people say, check out this other video up in the top corner, that sort of thing. Those are the cards. So that one can allow you to bulk update those or add those into multiple videos. Also with the end screens as well. So check out this new video coming next, that sort of thing, where at the end of the last 20 seconds of YouTube, those are the end screens. So you can do bulk updates with those. And then there's some other different tools here. This one in particular, click magnet is one that I'll be drilling down into. And then you can do things like scheduling backup and all that sort of stuff. So lots of tools here that I'll be talking about in depth over this series of videos. But that's just to illustrate the fact that you can also access some TubeBuddy features from up here. Then as we look at our video list, there are also TubeBuddy tools for each of those videos. So you can see here we've got this extra little TubeBuddy menu. I always like seeing the little TubeBuddy logo. It tells me that there's some extra cool functionality that I can investigate. So just clicking the little dropdown here, we've got, as you can see, sort of five pages of extra tools all related to that video. And there are some really clever things in here. So we've got things like cards. So again, we saw the bulk cards and the bulk end screens. But if you just want to go and apply a template to a specific video. So you've uploaded some videos, for example, and you want to just add the same template for the end screen that you want to use for those. You can just click quickly, quickly, quickly do that from here. Then there's also publishing to Facebook. Now, a lot of people will cross-post their YouTube videos to Facebook, but they'll do that by posting a link to it and saying, you know, check out my video on Facebook. Well, on YouTube rather. Well, Facebook doesn't really like people sending people off Facebook. They much prefer it if your video is native on Facebook. And so what this does is this allows you to publish your video to Facebook, but it actually uploads basically the same video to Facebook, copies of all the description and thumbnails and things like that. So that is just a great little tool that's built in here. It means you don't have to go out to Facebook to go and do all this. It will just do it all for you. I'll be talking about that though in another video as well. Lots of other things in here, too many to go through. That is the purpose of this video series really. Just another quick one though, share on Twitter. Again, rather than just posting a link back to the YouTube video, this will post a link to the video, but rather than it just being a stock sort of text saying, check out my latest video, it actually brings up a little window where you can actually then compose your tweet and then send it from there. So you're not leaving the YouTube studio, but you're still getting to write some custom tweet about that video. Another just a great time saver. So then let's come out of there because like I say, there is four or five pages. I'll be covering all of this functionality in detail a little bit later. But where else does the YouTube, does the TubeBuddy fit within the YouTube studio? Well, when you actually come to upload a video, let's just click on this one, you'll see that we've got the usual YouTube interface and we've got some things down here for subtitles and screens and cards. We've also got this part here of the TubeBuddy interface. And I'll be covering this in more detail in the next video actually, but this is basically where you can set upload defaults. So if you, you know, I've got, I do videos on various different things so I can just come and select maybe if this is a TubeBuddy video, click on TubeBuddy, it'll update all the description and things like that for me, add in the correct tags, all that sort of thing. Real massive time saver at this one. So once again, thinking about what your time is worth and how much time you would spend doing this. And depending on your upload schedule, you can quickly work out, well, you know, how much time has it actually saved me. As we come down here, you can see best practices. So this is what I was talking about when I set out, when I was first starting on YouTube and I wasn't really sure exactly what I needed to do in terms of, you know, the descriptions, the tags, the titles, all that sort of stuff. Well, here it's got just a nice handy checklist. And again, we'll be covering this in detail in the next video, but can really just help you with your upload process. And then once you even do know what you technically have to do, it doesn't mean that we always remember to do it, does it? So it serves as a really great little checklist. It's also got a little demonetization audit. So if you are monetized, then it will tell you if there's anything in there that maybe could cause you an issue. Once again, we've got some more TubeBuddy interface elements down here so you can tell that all these ones where you're seeing this little TubeBuddy icon are basically TubeBuddy elements. So these are all in addition to the regular YouTube studio. And as I say, I've just got kind of used to all of these now. So I would really miss them if they were suddenly taken away from me. So these are basically tools related to tags and so the things to help you with your tags. So that is just on the sort of upload page. But then, even as we go further forward through this, like if you come to look at the end screens that you're going to add, you can add the end screen from a previous video or things like that. But what you can do from here is you can also create templates. So if you create videos on certain different topics where you want to have the same end screens with linking to similar videos or playlists or things like that, you can create templates for those as well. So that can help you and speed things up for you. Let's just come out of there for a moment. And then if I come back out of here into the main part of the YouTube studio, if I was to go into analytics, the stuff in here as well that is TubeBuddy related. So if I come into my audience, for example, and scroll down, then we'll see things in here for TubeBuddy as well. So YouTube does give you this little graph, sort of heat map if you like, telling you when your viewers are online so that it gives you an idea of when you might want to upload. TubeBuddy goes one step further and really just spells it out for you. Recommendations for upload time and live stream time. So it's telling me for my upload time, the absolute best time for me to post my live streams, sorry, my videos, is Friday at 11pm. That's my time here in Thailand. And it's working out where that is for everyone else in the world, obviously. But then also if I'm going to post at multiple days, then it tells me for each individual day what is the optimum time for me to post. And then if I go to live stream, it will tell me what is the optimum time for my live stream as well. So it's just a really great little tool that is to just really give you some clarity or more clarity over this heat map that you've got in YouTube. So there are some other places where it features as well, for example in the settings menu. Now this is where you can set upload defaults in YouTube. Well here you can basically set some upload defaults for description and title and things like that. But you can create multiple different profiles. So then you're not just limited to the one sort of upload default that you get in YouTube. So this is all just to show really that it is like really embedded all throughout the YouTube interface. And it does just become part of your experience of working on YouTube. And like I say, it's become an invaluable resource for me. So let's just quickly have a look at the TubeBuddy website. And by the way, you can find the link for this in the description. It's also just written just below me, takeonetech.io slash TubeBuddy. That's obviously my affiliate link. But it's a great way to support the channel if it is something that you are considering checking out. And the reason why I'm using it is because it is a super valuable tool for me and I want to share it with you. So that is my motivation here for making these videos and sharing them with you. If I come over to the TubeBuddy website, wrong one, that's the TubeBuddy website. So yeah, I just want to touch on a couple of things. First of all, the title TubeBuddy. I have really found that it has been my little friend in my upload process. My little virtual coach, if you will. So I do like the branding. Grow your YouTube channel faster. It certainly does that. Advanced keyword research. We're going to be coming onto this in one of the videos actually talking about how it can help you find the keywords that are going to get you the most views. But I just wanted to mention this one, publishing time in half. I would say it's more than that. I would say the amount of time that it saves me is just absolutely phenomenal with being able to just add in stock descriptions and things like that. Or footers, I should say, to my description. It doesn't create the main description, but it certainly adds in all of that stuff at the bottom. Then working with tags and things like that, it has saved me an absolute ton of time and paid for itself in that respect 100 times over. It's not more. Search results. It can help you optimize your titles and things like that. Have better SEO to get yourself found. Obviously, as YouTubers, we presumably want people to watch our content. If not, maybe reconsider being on YouTube. Getting more views and subscribers. There's different tools to do that. These things about cross posting to Facebook and Twitter and stuff like that is about getting people onto your channel. Then test and tweak and win the click. That's all about all of the testing you can do. I've really been digging into that in recent months. As I've got more content on my channel, really trying to tweak and optimize and test and all those sorts of things. It makes it very easy to do so. It demystifies it. You don't have to dig into all of the YouTube analytics as much. It just puts things in plain, simple terms. I like that kind of thing. Let's have a quick look at the pricing tiers. These may vary internationally. I recently did a live stream all about TubeBuddy and thought that they'd drop their prices, but it's just that there's a slightly different pricing in different regions. I'm in Thailand, but this is the US pricing that I'm showing here. You can either pay for it annually, but let's have a look on a monthly basis. It's either the pro level, so there's three levels. You can try it for free. There is a free version as well. We'll have a look at some of the features in a moment. There's basically three different tiers. I love how they start with pro. Often people have starter, intermediate, and pro. I like how they actually start with pro because it really does level you up to a pro level YouTube uploader. I like the naming of these. It starts with the pro at $9 a month. I've just got to highlight this thing down here, which is if you have less than 1,000 subscribers and you toggle this one on, it's basically 50% off. It's $4.50 for a month for this. I'll just let that sit for a moment. It's $4.50. It can save you hours, depending on how many videos you're uploading. If you're uploading one video a month, maybe not totally hours, but still even at one video a month, to be honest, for the amount of headache it can take out of you, especially if you're a new YouTuber, to just have the peace of mind of knowing that you're doing everything correctly. Absolutely no brainer to start with the $4.50 a month for the pro level. I was a bit foolish though. I should have just gone straight to the legend because of the features that you get with that. Or certainly the star level. We'll have a look at the different features, but yeah, these ones really did help me. But for the starting price of basically $4.50, if you're under 1,000 subscribers, it is a pretty great value. Let me just expand all of these but I do get a load of features. It's not one of these ones where if you are on the lower level of this sort of holding back on you on loads of the really critical stuff, you get loads of the really great features even at that sort of the pro level. So you don't have to go up to the legend straight away. And so all these things that I've been talking about like card templates, end screens, bulk uploads, all of these sorts of things, all of those things to help you actually upload your content, get all there as it is. The bulk uploads aren't on the pro, but the ones to actually upload the end screens and things like that and the templates are all there. But what you can see is the difference between star and legend. There are a few different things that aren't available on star, but that does have a bulk of them like the bulk find and replace, all that sort of stuff. But all this stuff in the SEO studio, this opportunity finder, I'll be explaining what all of these things are. These are available at multiple different levels. So what I'll do is, as I'm going through these videos, if there is a feature that I'm making a video on that is not available in certain levels, I will be clear to express which particular level they are available in. But there's just so many features worth $4.50 of anybody's money in my mind for just even that pro level. So that is the pricing structure that we've got. Now when it comes to uploading the videos on YouTube, that is where, as I say, from the beginning I found that that was the most helpful place for me because it really did just make sure I got all of the checklists and things that I needed. And that's what I'm going to be covering in this video that's coming up right now. So I'll see you in that video.