YouTube is a great place to connect with people who share your interests and passions. When someone wants to learn a new skill, they visit YouTube. Likewise, when someone wants to see video content about what they are interested in, they come to YouTube.
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Video marketing has made a critical impact on the journey of individuals as consumers in more ways than one. This is the main reason why social media marketers, as well as content marketers, started to pay more attention to video marketing. Besides, a lot of consumers initially look for information regarding a product before they finally make a purchase. And it was proven that videos are responsible for affecting the decisions of many consumers.
Unfortunately, the video marketing industry faces many difficulties. The most common challenge that video marketers face is the challenge of building an audience. So if you are a video marketer, below are the ways on how you can create an audience for your YouTube videos.
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Do you own a YouTube account, and you have been wondering how to grow your audience? Don’t panic; here is the right place for you. Here, we would give you all you need to know about promoting your video views on the channel.
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Without any doubt, YouTube is the largest platform for sharing videos. Since the platform has a varying type of audience coming from various locations and with different ages. It is highly sacrosanct that they come up with ways to protect a specific group of users. One way to do this is by coming up with a feature called age restriction.
Some videos on YouTube are age-restricted, and this is done to protect minors from inappropriate content. This is the reason why videos are age-restricted. However, if you want to by-pass YouTube age restriction, there are multiple ways to do that, whether you log in or not.
In this article, we’ll discuss five different ways to by-pass YouTube age restriction, thus, giving you access to watch every type of video on the platform that’s accessible to the public. Every method we’ll mention here is legal and safe to use. Before you follow the procedures outlined here, ensure that you have an internet-enabled device with a secure connection.
YouTube TV is an innovation by YouTube that has shown the prospect of taking over cable TV subscriptions. The feature, which is accessible to those using Android and iOS devices, can be accessed by paying a monthly subscription fee. This feature enables you to watch videos live from your mobile phones.
YouTube TV has recently added some channels such as TBS, CNN, Turner Classic Movies, and TNT.
The benefit of YouTube TV is that it is very portable, while cable TV is out of reach when you’re out of your house. Also, you can quickly discontinue your subscription as there is no binding contract. Lastly, it will cost you a little amount of money to subscribe to YouTube TV.
YouTube TV is the best alternative if you plan to ditch the Cable Tv. For as little as 40$ a month, you will get access to many channels.
You can easily connect with YouTube TV by visiting their website on any internet-enabled device that supports video streaming. You can also download the app on the Apple Store and the Google Play Store. Also, you can watch it on Apple TV.
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YouTube saves the details on every video that you’ve ever watched. Irrespective of when you watched it, YouTube never forgets.
YouTube uses the old videos you’ve watched to determine what video to recommend to you., they even encourage you to re-watch some of these videos. YouTube will only save your watch history if you sign-in while watching those videos.
If you’re an android user with the YouTube app, the app has an incognito mode that prevents the app from collecting data about you. This mode helps in shielding you from YouTube’s prying eyes, and as such, helps to keep your activities on YouTube from YouTube itself.
You can even stop YouTube from ever collecting your watch history if you follow the instructions below. If you’re about watching a video that you don’t want anyone to trace, use the tips we’ll be sharing.
You should note that YouTube Incognito mode does not delete the videos you’ve watched before activating the feature, you will have to remove the history yourself.
To delete a History using the web browser, go to www.youtube.com, check the left corner of the screen for the menu button, then check in the sidebar under Library to find and tap on “History.” If you want to remove from the Watch history of your YouTube account, tap on “X” that is in front of each watch history. If you’re using a computer, you must hover over the video to see the icon. You can also see all that you ever searched for on YouTube, select “Search History” and you’ll see all. Tap the X in front of the search, Google will remove the search from all devices with that search.
If you’re using a YouTube app on an iPad, Android phone, or an iPhone, you can also delete your watch history. However, the method here is a bit different. If you want to do so, go to the toolbar on your app. You will find a toolbar at the bottom of the app. Open toolbar and tap on “History.”
You will see the history of the videos you’ve watched on this platform. Beside each video is a menu button, tap on that button, on the resultant page, find and tap on “Remove From Watch History” to remove a video.
You can view your search history if you’re using a YouTube app. You will have to do that on the website. To remove an item from watch history, we believe you now know how to delete an item from your watch history.
If you want to carry out a more extensive deleting, then you should delete your complete watch history from Google’s server. Instead of just picking the videos one by one. Removing all your videos saves more time and guarantees more safety. However, you should know that doing this will make it difficult for YouTube to suggest a video for you. It won’t be able to match your previously watched videos to make suggestions. To delete YouTube watch history on your website, go to YouTube, then login to your YouTube account.
Check the left corner of the page and tap on the menu icon. The menu icon is the three-dot that is at that corner. From the set of options you see on your screen, tap on “History.” Besides the videos you’ve watched, tap on “Clear all watch history.” YouTube will ask you to confirm your action, tap on “Clear Watch History” again. There you have it. No one can access your past watch history, not even you.
If you also want to delete your search history, under “History,” tap on “Search History.” Check under “History Type here” to find and tap on “Clear All Search History.” If you want to remove your search history in the YouTube app, navigate your way to “Library” in the app; this shouldn’t be hard for you if this is not the first time you’re using the app.
Then tap on “History,” after that, look at the top right corner of the app to find and tap on the menu icon (three dots). From the options on your screen, find and tap on “History Settings.”
Tap on “Clear Watch History,” you will see this under “History and Privacy.” If there’s any reason why you want to delete your entire search history on YouTube, you can do that by tapping on “Clear Search History.” There you have it, simple.
You should use YouTube’s incognito mode when you want to watch those embarrassing videos that you don’t want anyone to see. Incognito mode shields you from the prying eyes of unwanted strangers on your YouTube account. It also shields you from YouTube as the platform itself won’t have access to your watch history during that moment.
To enable the incognito mode on your YouTube account, go to the right corner of your screen and tap your profile picture. You should see the Incognito mode on your screen. Once you tap on it, YouTube will move your account to incognito mode. In this mode, YouTube won’t save any of your dates, and as such, won’t make video suggestions to you based on the videos you’re watching. Everything will, however, return to how it was before once you leave this mode.
You can switch to incognito mode on most platforms. However, you can pause your history collection, and this works as fine as switching to Incognito mode.
Once you do this, YouTube will stop saving up the videos you watch on all devices that connect to that account. To do this on YouTube’s website, go to “History,” then tap “Pause Watch History.”
YouTube is a great platform that has thrilled the world in several unique ways. Today, YouTube is regarded as the world’s largest video sharing platform. Due to its amazing features, it has become suitable to be used by anyone around the world.
Of course, YouTube can be used by just about anyone. However, there is some video content that may not be idle for kids to view. As a parent, you are most likely to understand what kind of videos your kids can view to enable them to learn and understand certain things. In the same sense, you can easily understand those that may be harmful or not suitable for their viewing. Luckily, YouTube understood this too and implemented the Parental Control feature.
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You want more traffic on your website, don’t you? If you gave an affirmative answer to that question, then you should read on to know how to use YouTube to drive traffic to your website.
Traffic is what ensures that what we have on our website is accessible to the public. Without traffic, our site is as good as an empty one. Traffic helps us to build our business and draws the clients we need to be profitable.
When it comes to making sales, you’re up to a great start since you have a website. However, you need to also work on driving traffic to your site. One way to do this is by using YouTube. More businesses are beginning to embrace YouTube as the tool they use to share information with the public and connect with current and potential customers. We’re going to go into the nitty-gritty of why YouTube is should be a top choice tool for your digital marketing campaign.
Even if you are jumpstarting your YouTube views like most people do today with buying YouTube views, these tactics work great. It would be best if you were promoting your site on YouTube for the following reasons:
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YouTube is primarily a verb now when it comes to searching for videos. The platform has coined a massive share of content sharing niche. It is easy to predict that a lot more people are watching YouTube than before, and from the looks of things, we can certainly conclude that a lot more people will be using the feature in years to come.
With this in mind, YouTube keeps introducing new features to cater to the desire of their ever-increasing users.
In this article, we’ll be looking at some new features that can make your use of YouTube a more memorable one. The features that we’ll be discussing will be those that you probably don’t know. Let’s jump right into it!
Augmented Reality is a new technology that has the potential to be the next big thing in tech space. Recently, the most popular search engine, Google, just launched a new Augmented Reality feature that it calls Live view for having a better sight of a location on Google map. Now, they have released an AR feature for YouTube. The name of the functionality is the AR Beauty tool.
You can find this feature on YouTube when you search for “golden goddess makeup tutorial.” With this feature, you can try on numerous shades of lip color right within the app. You can use this feature on your device by opening the video on your phone’s YouTube app, then tap on the “Try it on” button that you’ll see at your right-hand-side, just below the video.
The moment you notice that the Virtual Try-On window is up, tap on the “OK” button.
You can change the lip color to the one you prefer, tap on another colored circle, and it will change to the color you chose.
YouTube gets over 80hours of video every 10 seconds. But how do you keep track of those contents that interest you? Although YouTube’s algorithm is doing well in trying to suggest relevant and new videos to you, it is not enough. As such, YouTube has introduced a new feature that will put the power of discovering new videos into your hands.
This feature helps the YouTube user to keep track of videos based on your topic of interest. You will see this feature at the top of your YouTube app.
They designed it in a way that you can choose the videos you want to watch based on the creator or a topic. Tap on a topic you’re interested in, and you will see a list of trending videos.
You will see a bar beneath a video you’re watching; this bar will help you to find videos that are similar to what you’re watching.
The fact that you’re reading this article gives me a hint about you, which is that you have spent countless times on YouTube.
But do you know that you can now track your time spent on YouTube? Yes, you can, and here’s how to check.
You can check the time by tapping on your YouTube profile picture. Your Account page should open, then find and tap the “Time Watched” option.
YouTube will take you to a page where you will see stats about your YouTube history across all YouTube properties, except for YouTube TV and YouTube Music.
YouTube built a feature that can remind you to take breaks if you feel that you’re spending too much time on YouTube, and you’ll rather spend that time on other productive things.
You will find this feature when you go to “Tools,” then “Time Watched.”
This feature lets you set the alarm to stop yourself from watching videos continuously. Tap on the toggle next to the “Remind Me to Take a Break” feature. After changing the toggle on, then set your preferred reminder frequency. YouTube will alert you when you cross that limit.
iPhone users now have several features that can guarantee them a better YouTube experience. One of these features is the introduction of gestures for easy YouTube navigation.
You can now swipe to the left if you want to check the previous video, or swipe to the right if you’re going to check the next one.
If you desire to use a platform that will freely transcript your videos with ease, then YouTube is the right place.
If you want an automated transcription of your YouTube video, you must first upload the video to YouTube, after which you will tap on “More” that you will see just below the title you chose for your video. You will see a drop-down menu, tap “Transcript.” You will see the transcript as a new module in the same window.
For audio files, you have to find a way to upload your audio file to YouTube. You can get this done by using a third-party service like “TunesToTube.” It will take a while for your audio to upload. Once you’re through, follow the instruction in the subsequent paragraph to get your automated transcript.
In case you’re not comfortable having your kids roam around the platform, you can activate the secure version called YouTube Kids. This feature works differently from the regular YouTube platform because it uses filters to select and display only videos that are safe for kids. The great thing about this feature is that it is free thanks to highly regulated ads. You can also limit the time your kid can spend on the platform.
Although the algorithm is good, just like any other algorithm, you should have it in mind that YouTube’s algorithm is not perfect.
YouTube is equipped with several features. However, you might find out you do not know about each one of these features. Below, we will dive into a few details about some of those features you might or might not know about, but have been proven to be extremely useful. Here’s the deal;
Now, this is something that will turn out to be very useful. Since the introduction of this feature, users of YouTube have been able to see where the words spoken in their videos come from. YouTube compiles a transcript for uploaded videos. This unique feature comes in handy for those who are social media marketers and need to work on something related to that particular video.
Asides coming in handy for social media marketers, reporters can easily work their way towards pulling out quotes from a video more efficiently as they file reports or conduct interviews. This is one way YouTubers get more YouTube views on their videos from their network of contributions.
Users can obtain the transcripts of videos simply by tapping on the More option below the video title. Once a drop-down list is presented, they can find the transcript option and click on it to view the transcript of that video.
Dark theme for most digital platforms is a great way to boost the efficiency of the user interface they provide. Luckily, YouTube understands the amazing benefits that come with using dark mode for users.
Just like most other platforms, the video platform supports the use of a dark theme for its users. They can enable the dark theme simply by navigating to the account symbol on their desktop, clicking on Dark Theme, and then toggling the Activate Dark Theme option.
Background playing is one of the many features YouTube has supported for a while now. To many, background playing is a great way to be more comfortable with the screen they leave on their device while watching their favorite videos.
For iOS users, you can do this with your Safari browser. Navigate and play a video through the YouTube website and then tap on the Home Button. Swipe up on your screen to reveal the Action Center, before swiping left to reveal a second screen.
On Android, navigate to the video you want to watch with Firefox or Chrome. Then request for the desktop site. You will stand a chance to still hear the audio in the background as you use other apps.
Sometimes, you will always want to refer someone to a video to watch what you have watched. During a time like this, being able to skip to that exact point you want them to see is sure to come in handy. Luckily, with one of YouTube’s amazing features, users can start a video at a specific time.
To do this, tap on the Options button or right-click on the screen to reveal a list of options. Within these options, click on Copy Video URL at Current Time. This will provide you with a copy of the URL that can help anyone start videos at the particular time you copied the URL.
YouTube enables users to customize the ads they see. Of course, these ads cannot be blocked, but YouTube provides its users with the option for them to choose the kind of ads they are presented with.
Simplified pages allow you to save data and reduce the data rates attached to the usage of the platform. Luckily, YouTube has provided a different kind of interface for users who prefer to enjoy simpler streaming of videos and usage of the platform. Users are given access to this simplified interface when they access the youtube.com/tv URL.
This simplified form of YouTube has come in handy for a great number of people. It allows users to access an incredible platform that is very easy to navigate and offers a high level of page speed. If you feel the regular YouTube has got a complex interface, then now is your time to try out an alternative one.
Gifs are simpler forms of videos that are usually used in texts and messages to others. If you are someone who loves to use gifs, now is your time to start making them yourself. By adding a “gif” right before the domain name, users can be redirected to gifs.com with the video already uploaded and well-prepared for editing.
YouTube URLs can be customized to aid easy remembering. Trying to remember a YouTube URL can be a tough work to do. However, since the introduction of the feature which allows users to customize URLs, doing that has become an easier task to carry out.
One of the incredible features of YouTube is the ability for users to customize the URLs for their videos on the platform. They can easily do this through the advanced settings in their name section. Users can only do this if they have 100 or more subscribers, be at least 30 days old, have an uploaded photo as your channel icon, and have uploaded channel art.
YouTube is one of the world’s most successful digital platforms. With this very fact, they are still a great number of people who do not know about its many features. The above-listed ones are just a few of them. Knowing these features come in handy for making the usage of the platform easier for you.