 Freedom! Today I wanted to talk to you about something awesome. I wanted to talk to you about some things that you may be missing on YouTube, especially when it comes to the desktop client. I know there are a lot of you out there who use mobile specifically for this. However, a lot of this is just not accessible easily on mobile. However, it is if you do some other things, but we're not going to get into that. So I'm going to go ahead and jump to the desktop. Now, the first thing I wanted to show you is the first question that I get asked the most often, which is, how do I find out who is subscribed to me? You can find that out at youtube.com slash subscribers, or simply from your creator back in, you can click subscribers over here by going to community, then subscribers. And this will give you a page or so and you can load more and you can find out who is subscribed to you. Now, moving on from beyond that, you can also go to your community settings. This is a great place to add moderators, people you trust to help you moderate your comment section. This comes into play when you're a little bit bigger, but you know what? If you have friends who are able to help you out now, there you go, especially people who maybe you collaborate with often. That way you check their comment section when you're on their videos, so on and so forth. It's a great way to work together. Also, it allows you to set a list of bad words or blocked words that you don't want to go into your channel. And you can actually, and when you set this, it actually sets those into a different queue for you to approve or disapprove. You can also set a few other things from here. And this is youtube.com slash comment management as you can see here. Or you can just simply go to community and then comment setting a community settings. There is a credit system, which can work if you work with other larger creators frequently. There's also a few other little gems here. Now, just so you know, just so you understand, this is sort of the base level stuff that some of us probably already know. So please try not to jump down my throat saying that you know all of this stuff. This video may not be for you. I probably should have said that sooner, but you know what? That is what it is. So next we're going to go to channel because there are a few hidden gems in here. A lot of people see this page and they assume that's where it ends. However, you can go to your upload defaults. This page will save you tons and tons and tons of time. This will allow you to set the default privacy of all of your videos. So I have mine set to unlisted because I don't like it to be set to public or private for my own reasons. You can also set your default category. This is great. If you do gaming videos, you can set your channel to gaming and that way YouTube knows more about your video or any of these other various sections. You can also set your YouTube license. I suggest that you stay with the standard YouTube license unless you know a lot about creative comments and what that allows people to do with your content. You can also set a default description. Now this is super important because YouTube gives you up to 5,000 characters that you could put in your description and it's very nice to be able to have some stuff there permanently. Like let's say a little section here about who you are as a creator. Obviously something different than what's on your about page, but also your social media links and other miscellaneous things that you want in every description. This helps. Also you'll notice that I happen to use what are called go dot go links here and that's so I can track specifically how many people are clicking through versus following. So if I have a lot of people clicking through to say Twitter, but they're not following me, then I know that maybe there's a change I need to make to make that Twitter page more appealing to them. So it allows me a little bit more statistical analysis capabilities. Pardon me a little bit sick. All right, so going to featured content. One great feature here. A lot of people ask me how they get that little box here and that's how you get it along the bottom of your video. It will come up and it will, you know, suggest the next video. You can set a message that comes up along with it and I suggest that this message be something that is click compelling, not click bait, but click compelling, something that they're not going to get from the title or the thumbnail. All right, moving on from that branding. This is a great thing. This allows you to have that logo of yours in the lower right hand corner of your video, lower right hand corner of your videos. And you can actually use transparent PNGs for this to give it a little bit of extra. What? I've seen a lot of people use that with great success. The advanced tab right over here allows you to set channel keywords. Now this is very similar to tags on videos, except this is the older style. So if you've got a phrase or two separate words, you have to put those in quotation marks. And there are a few other great things here, but that's some sort of that's a little bit more advanced. So we won't go through that. The next thing I want to talk to you about is just simply YouTube analytics. YouTube analytics is a great and powerful tool for just about everyday use on this channel. This is my personal channel. I don't really care if videos on this channel do well or not, but let's pretend I did see this giant spike here. If I wanted to see what caused that, I can simply go, okay, so I click on this panel and then I can do this. Now this is one of my secrets and I love this. It's called the stacked area chart. This allows me to see that huge spike correlates with one particular video. So I can take a look at that. I can also, let's say I wanted to see two videos how they compared side by side. Okay, so let's say that I had made a video about getting a dog and then I made another video about getting a cat. So let's say getting a dog was the lion green as we see here. I can say, okay, a lot of people cared immediately, but then the orange does better over time. So that's a really good way and it's a decent example of how this stacked area chart can give you information about what video, what kinds of videos perform better over a long period of time versus short or where certain spikes come from. All right, so we are going to go ahead from here. There are, there is a lot of really great information here and I suggest that you look through all of the stuff analytics shows you, not just this, going back to the overview. This can give you insights as to your earnings, also your average view duration, likes, dislikes, comments, shares, videos and playlists and subscribers. Now the thing that most people get wrong about these five things, likes, dislikes, comments, shares and videos and playlists. YouTube classifies these as interactions. That means that they're good no matter what, likes, dislikes, doesn't matter, it's an interaction. You've got a response out of someone, also comments count towards a lot. So these are great things regardless of how negative something like dislikes might seem. Okay, going on from there, I believe I may have left something out of channel. Nope, got all that. Community. Did I get all that? Oh, messages. Okay, so messages and comments. These are very important. This is a very cool thing. So this is a great page so you can reply to all of your comments in, you know, in one go rather than going from video to video to video to video. It also keeps you from the watch page so that you no longer have to possibly inflate your view count by one just to answer some comments. And also there's this great feature. If you click the time next to any comment on YouTube, regardless of where it is, it can actually take you to a link to that comment. So I just click that and it takes me to, as you can see highlighted comment. This is the comment that I just clicked on so I can reply to it here or I can hit that nice little heart button or I can come over here and I can pin that comment on that video if I would like. And that's a great feature. Like I said, it works in all comment sections. If you just look at the time or the, you know, five days ago, 10 days ago, one year ago, it all works. And that's also a great way if you're collaborating with someone. Let's say this one right here. If I say had a friend who was really knowledgeable about the Intel NUC, I could take this here and I could copy this and I could paste it to my friend who's really knowledgeable about it and he could expand upon that. So that's another great feature of this. Technically it does the same thing if you click on the video thumbnail to the right of the comment. Also from here you can remove the comment if that's your thing. You can also report spam or abuse or always approve comments from this user and so on and so forth. Now, help for review. Remember those naughty words, those bad words, those those we were talking about earlier. If you set words and people use those words that this is where they go so that you can review them. You can accept, you can either say yay or nay, put them on my channel or don't. Likely spam. This is more of an algorithmic thing if someone is overly toxic on all their YouTube comments or if they're frequently put down as spam by other people or if they're just commenting too frequently, YouTube may flag them as potentially spam. So be sure to check this out and to go through this on a regular basis because there could be some really good comments in there that you might be missing out on. All right, so we're gonna go back to the video manager. There are a few cool things here that I wanted to share with you. Okay, from the videos page. Now, there are a couple of things here. If you just want to see the comments say from, see a video where I got, okay, if I just wanted to see these comments for this one video, let's say I wanted to pick a winner or something like that, or if I just wanted to see what the sentiment for one singular video was. Without having to go to the main page, I can click this one button and it takes me to all the comments for this one video, which is a really, really nice feature. All right, so now if I click this or this, the number of views or the likes and dislikes, it will take me to analytics. Well, which is a really nice thing if you want to see the analytics for just one video. So going back to a video that I had a decent number of views on here, if I want to go to the analytics for that, I just simply click that. And as you can see, it's filtered to just that one video. So if I wanted to see, for example, where all the views came from, I could click on views and then use our stacked area chart that we talked about earlier and say, okay, the vast majority came from the States, but the UK is doing pretty well too. I could, I can use that to my advantage and that is awesome. Okay, moving on from that, we are going to go back to the my videos page because that's what we're focusing on right now. Now, from here, we're going to go ahead, we're going to demonstrate a couple of things on the edit screen. Now, as everyone knows tags, you get up to 500 tags. You may not use or sorry, 500 characters with the tags may not use them all, but I suggest that you use as many as are relevant to your video. Also, making sure that you properly describe your video as much as possible. Now, going into translations, this is a great feature for some others, not so much, but it does let you know the languages of people spoken by your audience. So I can say that my biggest area for growth would be if I had someone translate Filipino and or German. All right, moving on from their monetization. This is a great thing. You can actually set this by default, which I think is something that we've already talked about upload defaults. But by default, it's a good practice to have monetized in all countries, overlay ads, sponsored cards, capable video ads and non-skippable video ads up to 30 seconds. You do not, as a general rule, most people do not want to turn on long, non-skippable ads because that costs you viewers. The non-skippable video ads up to 30 seconds doesn't really cost you all that much. And usually it's just kids that just want to be a pain that you lose. So it's not that big of a deal. Going on to advanced settings, this is something great. Now the video location, this is something that I suggest you fill in in a general sense, maybe not on the whole. So maybe let's say you live somewhere near the city of Chicago, you can type that in. Now people cannot search for your videos or find out where you live based on this. What YouTube can do is they can recognize that and they can suggest it to people in your general area thinking that the regional dialect, the accent is probably going to be the same or similar. So there's a greater likelihood of you being served up in that area, which is awesome. And it's a boost that if you're not taking advantage of, you definitely should be. There are also a few other things on here that you should definitely check out, but I won't be going through all that right now. Now, playlists. Playlists are a great thing and we will go over that right now. I didn't actually do anything, so let's not save. All right. So the great thing about these playlists is that you can actually add a description. Hi, freedom. And so I click off of that and it saves. Also, in the playlist settings, there's this little checkmark right here that everyone misses out on. This is actually telling it to set this as the official series for this playlist. And I'll explain what that does here in just a moment. So let's go ahead. All right. So we all have experience. I've actually moved. Let's go ahead and take this out here. I've actually moved. Okay. So what I've done is I have told it that this is a series. And what what YouTube now knows to do is if someone discovers this video, the up next will be more than likely. There are a few other algorithmic things, but more than likely it will suggest something else from this playlist. And that means also if someone lets it play and it auto plays, it goes to the next in this playlist. So it can help build your watch time and keep your viewers engaged in the same series, if that's their thing. And that is a very awesome thing for playlists to do. Let's see here. So let's go ahead and let's take a look at your dashboard just real quick because we have to go through there for the next thing I want to show you. Dashboard is great. You can actually add and remove change widgets. So let's say I wanted to remove this widget. I can. I can also add that back. I can add a what's new widget and certain news and other things will appear there. So we will go ahead and add back comments. The great thing about this is I can drag this around. So let's say I wanted to snag this, put it down there. Now I can scroll down and I have all kinds of different things. Also, this tips thing is awesome and you should always have it on. You should check it about once a month or so. Now going through to your channel. So we were talking earlier about descriptions for, for playlists. One of the great reasons why you should have those is because if you put those on your, on your channel page, it shows up. So for instance here, collaborations I'm in this playlist is full of videos that I've made with and for other people in the past. Basically giving a little bit extra context. Also, it helps with search and discoverability because again, this is metadata. This is what YouTube uses to figure out what your videos and or playlists are about. So using descriptions can help you with that as well. It also makes them stand out on your, on your page. And like I said, it just gives a little bit more context. Now, one of the other things I hear asked a lot is how they get, how a user, a partner can get their, here we go, their page from looking like this, which is kind of unprofessional and it pretty much, it just shows who you're liking and who you're not liking and who you're commenting on and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It takes you from that to this. Now the secret to that default is right here, customize the layout of your channel. And as you can see here, it says recommend it for people who upload videos regularly, add channel trailer, suggest content to your subscribers and organize all your videos into playlists in, in, in sections. And there are some more advanced settings and things like that, but I do recommend turning this on so that you can take advantage of a channel trailer. As you can see right now, I am actually using my, my most popular recent video, but I do have a real channel trailer where I discuss what the channel is and all that stuff that I use outside of a big event like this. And I suggest that you also do the same. You can also set up for returning subscribers, what video they should see. You can edit that. You can, you can change it to be just about anything or just your latest upload, latest activity, so on and so forth. So we're going to go ahead and cancel that. Oh, also, speaking of other little shortcuts that most people don't know exists, if you click this, it'll actually take you, I'll open it in a new tab. It'll take you to the subscribers page that we were talking about earlier. That is a really cool feature as well as if you click this, it will actually take you to your analytics as well. Let me demonstrate that in a new tab. And there you go. Takes you to your analytics. And this of course takes you back to your video manager. I hope that all of these little things have been helpful to you. I hope that I showed you something you didn't know about before, or maybe reminded you of something that you should take care of that you haven't yet. Let me know in the comment section down below if you found this helpful, because I can do more focused videos focusing on just one or two things that I haven't discussed here today in the future, or maybe do a few run-downs like I've done here with things you may be missing. Anyway, till next time, don't forget to like, subscribe, and do all those things that make us love our jobs. Also, be awesome to yourself and amazing to each other. Bye, Freedom Family. Anyways, thanks for watching. Whoa!