TubeBuddy for YouTube

Pros

• Channel management
• Video optimization
• Bulk video updates

Cons

• Freemium features

TubeBuddy for YouTube helps content creators optimize videos and manage their channels.

TubeBuddy for YouTube is available as a mobile app and as a browser extension. It’s a toolkit for optimizing your videos as well as managing your YouTube channel overall. The tools provided integrate seamlessly with the YouTube interface, which lets you continue working on your videos and channels as you have but now with many more options. TubeBuddy for YouTube is free to use, but there are three paid tiers of service that we’ll discuss more in the conclusion.

TubeBuddy offers dozens of features. These are organized into five categories. Productivity includes tools like advanced video embedding, canned responses, card templates, comment filters and upload checklists. Video SEO offers best practice audits, search rankings, keyword exploring and tag sorting. Promotion helps you host contests, pick winners, reach out to subscribers and even track shares. Data & Research provides health reports for your channel and even lets you compare yourself against competitors, and the final category is bulk processing.

All of the TubeBuddy tools that can affect a particular video can be executed across a series of videos as well. Some of the operations supported include deleting copy cards, replacing end screens and checking for demonetization. You can use bulk processing to affect every video you’ve ever uploaded to your channel or a particular subset determined by published date or other criteria.

Batch processing makes this an amazing tool for all content creators, but it can really ease the life of new content creators. Content creation on YouTube is a process, and you learn on the job. You’ll learn something new with each video, and there will absolutely be times where you wish you had done this or that with your past videos, and TubeBuddy makes it easy to do just that.

Another aspect that distinguishes TubeBuddy is its community. There’s a weekly podcast that covers not only the program itself but topics of interest to content creators. An active forum on the website gives you access to other users, and if there’s something the built-in help doesn’t clarify for you, you can certainly get the assistance you need in the forums.

TubeBuddy for YouTube is free to use, and the basic version is certainly worthwhile for its upload checklist, advanced video embedding and so on. There’s also a Pro, Star and Legend tier, which require a monthly subscription. Bulk processing, which is among our favorite features, unfortunately requires Star membership, which may be a bit pricey for the content creator just starting out on YouTube.

Pros

• Channel management
• Video optimization
• Bulk video updates

Cons

• Freemium features