TubeBuddy is all about helping YouTube creators get better results on YouTube.
Many of the tools in TubeBuddy are focused on growing your channel because the data proves it: active TubeBuddy users get better results.
As channels use TubeBuddy and see results, things like keyword research, optimizing YouTube video titles and descriptions, A/B testing thumbnails and titles, and so on become standard practice.
To those users we say, in our best infomercial voice: but wait, there’s more!
Using bulk YouTube tools in TubeBuddy save countless hours of manual work and make it easy to switch out end screens, add or edit in-video cards, find and replace text, including URLs, deal with spam or other comments and more.
Special Creator Day live stream
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Bulk Tools to Optimize YouTube Workflow
TubeBuddy grows with you and your YouTube journey, as does the effectiveness of our bulk YouTube tools.
SEO Studio, Keyword Explorer, Click Magnets and other tools focus on getting videos more attention and more clicks by optimizing for viewers and for YouTube / search engine algorithms.
Retention Analyzer, YouTube A/B Testing, Channelytics and other tools help YouTube creators take a data-driven approach to YouTube content to do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.
Bulk tools, which we’re about to get into, are all about simplifying workflows and saving time. These tools are most useful after you’ve built a small library of videos.
TubeBuddy bulk tools simplify onerous tasks like updating YouTube cards, end screens, descriptions, and thumbnails across all your videos. The more videos you have, the more valuable these bulk editing tools are.
Changing cards and end screens or updating descriptions across hundreds of videos would take hours of mind-numbing busywork.
TubeBuddy bulk tools eliminate that busy work, freeing creators for more high-impact stuff like optimizing videos, coming up with new content ideas, filming, editing, or otherwise creating awesome content.
Bulk Editing YouTube Cards
YouTube cards are interactive elements within YouTube videos that can be popped up on your videos when you decide. These cards can link out to another video or playlist.
Cards are particularly helpful where retention drops off; instead of users navigating away, you can send them to another video or playlist in your channel. Creators can have up to five cards in each video.
With TubeBuddy Bulk Cards tools, you add, remove or update cards across multiple videos at once:
- Create, copy, and save YouTube card templates
- Add or update cards for all videos in a channel
- Add or update cards for all videos in a p laylist
- Add or update cards for a specific set of videos
Bulk Editing YouTube End Screens
End screens, AKA “end cards” or “end slates,” show for the last five to 20 seconds of your video. They can share other videos or playlists and invite viewers to subscribe to your channel. If you’re a member of the YouTube Partner Program (YPP), you can also include a custom URL to link out of YouTube.
End screens work, and being able to update them in bulk — across all your videos, on videos within a playlist, all videos posted between certain dates, or to a specific subset of videos — is super handy.
With the TubeBuddy Bulk Endscreens tool you can update end screens across all videos or a specific subset of videos:
- Create, copy, and save YouTube endscreen templates
- Add or update endscreens for all videos in a channel
- Add or update endscreens for all videos in a playlist
- Add or update endscreens for a specific set of videos
YouTube Description Bulk Editing
YouTube allows creators to include standard description elements for all new videos. For example, links to products and services, affiliate links, standard “about channel” text. When you update this “boilerplate” text, every new video you upload will include your new text… but what about your older videos? Updating manually would be a pain… but TubeBuddy Find and Replace Text can help.
Creators report that this feature is especially useful to add, remove, or change affiliate URLs across all your videos, all at once.
- Find and replace text, including URLs, across across YouTube video descriptions
- Update text in YouTube video descriptions
- Add or remove text from all video descriptions
- Add text to the beginning or end of a description
- Replace all descriptions with updated content
- Update, add or remove URLs in video descriptions
Bulk Thumbnail Overlays
We all know what a YouTube thumbnail is, and the importance of getting your YouTube thumbnails right.
Bulk Thumbnail Overlays lets you add a logo or other visual element (your own or a sponsor’s) to multiple video thumbnails at once, up to and including every video thumbnail on your channel.
- Add a visual element to all of your video thumbnails
- Add a visual element to all video thumbnails in a playlist
- Add a visual element to a specific list of videos
- Remove or replace a previously added visual element for all videos, videos in a playlist, or a specific selection of videos.
Bulk Handling of YouTube Comments
Spammers, scammers, haters, and other unpleasant types make moderating YouTube comments a nightmare. YouTube Studio lets you pin, block, remove, or report a comment… but TubeBuddy Bulk Handling adds another option, to remove all existing comments from a user.
TubeBuddy Bulk Tools… What Happened?
Some TubeBuddy users will recognize many of the bulk tools as features TubeBuddy previously offered. Some — especially creators who sold cards or end screen placement — were more than a little upset when some of these tools disappeared.
So what happened? YouTube changed its API access rules and the way TubeBuddy was able to do some of our most useful bulk functions — like updating in-video cards or end screens across videos — were compromised with that API change.
Now, the full suite of TubeBuddy bulk tools — including bulk editing YouTube cards and end screens — are back.
How to Access TubeBuddy Bulk Tools
TubeBuddy users can find Bulk Tools by clicking the TB menu in YouTube Studio.
TubeBuddy Free users can use bulk cards and bulk end screen once each per year.
TubeBuddy Pro and Star users can use bulk cards and bulk end screen once each per quarter.
TubeBuddy Legend users can use bulk cards and bulk end screen once each per month.
TubeBuddy Enterprise users can use bulk cards and bulk end screen as often as they need to.
TubeBuddy bulk editing tools can save creators countless hours of drudge work. Hours that would be better spent creating awesome new content.
We’re happy to bring them back to full force, and we think you will be too.
Special Creator Day live stream
đź“… April 23, 2024
⏰ 6 – 7:30pm PST
What’s next in creator tech? Join BENlabs CEO Ricky Ray Butler, host Judah Lee, and creators King Bach, Hannah Stocking, and Kris London for a special Creator Day event, streaming live from LA.
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