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Hi, if you'd like to know how YouTube Communities can help you get more viewers, more subscribers
and help you interact with those subscribers, stay tuned and watch this video and I'll show
you exactly how. Hi, there. David Walsh here, again, from DavidWalshOnline.com
and in this video I'm going to show you how to use YouTube Community to get more subscribers,
more views and help you interact more with your subscribers, once they become your subscriber.
Now, the YouTube's communities area was added to YouTube in the past couple of months and
it allows you to get more insights into your subscribers and see what they like so you
can actually give more of that to them. Now, the main functionality that is available
is the ability to preapprove comments on your YouTube channel, to ban people as well and,
also, to set up blacklisted words on your comments, so that they're not going through
and causing spam or problems for what you want on your YouTube channel.
But, there is a lot of other functionality on the YouTube communities' area that you
can use, once you hit a certain amount of subscribers on your YouTube channel.
Now, YouTube do want you to interact more with your subscribers and, obviously, them
to interact more with you, and this is why they have set up communities on YouTube.
This is, also, the reason why they've set a minimum amount of about 5,000 subscribers
on your channel, before you have the full functionality available to you.
Now, this may fall over time, it may go down to 2,000 or 1,000 or something like that,
but at the moment it's about the 4-5 thousand mark that you need to get YouTube communities
available fully on your YouTube channel. So, if you're not quite at that mark, there's
a little bit of an incentive there, for you, to get those extra couple of hundred or couple
of thousand on your channel, so you get the full functionality on your YouTube channel.
Now, whether you have that functionality on your channel or not, I'm going to show you
exactly what it does, so you can see how you can use it for your self, once it becomes
available on your own YouTube channel. So, let's head on over to the old trusty computer,
once again, and I'll show you exactly how to use it.
So, here we are in the community area in our channel, and you can get there by going up
to the top, clicking on 'Dashboard' or 'Video Manager' or 'Analytics' and then clicking
on 'Community' on the top. Now, this comments section, here, is brand
new. Now, this is only been added and it allows you to see all the comments that you have
published across your site. You can, also, go in and see the pending comments
that need to be approved, if you're approving comments and you can, also, see the comments
that have been marked for spam, that are on your channel, as well.
Now, the good thing about this is that this is if there are comments in here that have
been marked as 'Spam', you can go in and approve them as proper comments.
And we can see, as well, that we have a notice, up here, saying 'Comment Moderation and other
features are coming soon'. So, we know that YouTube are adding extra features to this
area, in the next coming weeks. In the comments setting area, this allows
you to set Approved Users, Spam Users and, as well, Blacklist. And I've covered this
in previous videos, the links to which are in the description or at the end of this video.
The area I want to cover here is the Fans and Insights Area. The Fans Area allows you
to see the people who are subscribed to your channel, i.e. your fans on your channel.
It allows you to see how many subscribers they have, their engagement, their last comment
etc. etc., and also when they subscribed. You can sort this by Engagement, Subscribers,
Subscribed Since, Subscribers Newest. Now, if we look at Subscribers, we can see
a list of people subscribed to my channel, in order of how many subscribers they have.
So, I can see that Disturbed the Rock Band, have 337,000 subscribers on their channel.
So, I've got some heavy hitters on my channel. I've got Hectanooga1, who's got 118,000 people
subscribed to her channel, which is fantastic. So, I can see the heavy hitters who are subscribed
to my channel and that, then, gives me the opportunity to contact them and do some videos
together. The other good area, here, is that it allows
you to add your fans into a circle on Google+. So, if I go over here, to 'View' and then
click on people not in circle 'Subscribe'. So, I set up a circle called 'Subscribed'.
So, these are fans who have subscribed to my channel, and then, I just need to add them
to a circle. So, I can scroll down and I can see who they
are, and click on 'Add to Circle', then it ask me if I want them to add them to the 'Subscribe'
circle and I just click on 'OK'. And now, all those fans have been added to my 'Subscribed'
circle. Then, it brings me into the Insights area,
which is underneath 'Fans', on the left hand side. So, I can see the recent activity on
my channel, who the people are that are commenting, etc. So, I can scroll down and see what comments
are coming through from my fans and see what is trending across my channel.
If I scroll down, I can, also, see what my fans are, also, looking at, as well. So, if
I see there are common things coming through, I can then create similar videos from my own
channel and have them come back, again and again.
I also have statistics about my fans as well, I can see where my fans are from, what country
they're in, also, what gender they are, which is very important and, also, most importantly,
their age. So, if I know if they're male and their biggest
portion is 18 -- 34, then I know to keep my content specific to those ages, so that I
can keep most of my fans very happy. Scrolling up to the top, we can see here that
we can post on the circle to Google+, so we can send them a message, which only they will
see. The other thing we can do is upload privately to the circle, so we can add a video that
only the fans and your subscribers can see. Now, this is a great strategy to keep your
subscribers and also, get more subscribers which I'll be using going forward on my channel.
So, I'll be adding content that's only for my subscribers, so the only way they can get
to see it is to actually subscribe to the channel and add me on Google+.
So, that's a great way for you to use this to get more and more subscribers to your channel.
And then when you have them in, then you can add Hangouts, which will help you get even
more subscribers to your channel. So, you can see the new community area on
Google+ gives you a lot of functionality for you to interact with your fan and your subscribers,
and gives you tools that'll get you even more subscribers to your channel.
So, get working on getting your subscribers and get those couple of thousand subscribers
that you do need to get your Fans and Insights, and you'll be able to use these tools on your
own YouTube channel. So, there you go. That's how you can use YouTube
communities; to not only keep your channel safe, but also, to be able to interact with
your subscribers. And you can, also, see who they are and maybe even collaborate with them,
on some videos, for both your YouTube channels. And, as I mentioned, you do need a couple
of thousand people to get this ability on your channel, so keep at it, keep uploading
those videos, keep interacting with your viewers to get them as subscribers, so they get you
to that 5,000 or so limit, so that you can have full communities available on your YouTube
channel. Now, if you do have the full functionality
of YouTube communities on your channel, I'd love to know how you're using it on your channel
to help interact with your subscribers and even, get more subscribers on to your channel.
Feel free to just share it in the comments below and you'll help other people as well,
when they get that ability on their channel. And even if you don't have the full functionality
of YouTube communities, I'd still love to know how you're using the functionality to
keep your channel safe from those pesky spammers and also, how you're interacting with your
current subscribers, as well. And, as always, if you have a question about
this or anything to do with YouTube, feel free to just stick it in the comments below
and I will do what I can to help you get that question answered.
Make sure to give a thumps up and like and share this video, as well, and click on the
old red subscribe button, right there, if you are not one of the many people who've
already subscribed to this channel. And as a viewer of my video, I want to thank
you for watching this video all the way to the end. I really, really appreciate it.
So, til next time, stay safe and happy community building on YouTube.