Scheduling YouTube videos are a prominent feature if you are a marathon YouTuber. Making 10 videos and publishing them all at once doesn’t make sense. YouTube algorithm requires consistent YouTube creators.
Sometimes, you hardly make 4-5 videos in a day for a particular date to release the video. So, you can schedule the videos before, and then YouTube will automatically publish your video at a scheduled time.
Therefore, in this post, I’ll explain the step-by-step guide of,
- How to schedule YouTube videos on the desktop.
- How to schedule it using the TubeBuddy tool.
- Also, how to schedule a video using a phone.
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Steps to Schedule YouTube Videos on Desktop
Sign in YouTube account
Firstly, get on to YouTube and sign in to your account. After that, you have seen an option called the “upload videos” button.
Upload the Video
Once you click the button, you’ll be redirected to the “Upload videos” dialogue on YouTube Studio. Then, click the “Select Files” button and choose the video of whatever you want.
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Enter Video Details
During uploading, you can enter the details of video information like title, description, thumbnail, tags, and others.
Change Video Privacy
After entering video details, kindly move to the third tab, called Visibility.
Choose the “Schedule” checkbox and enter the date and time you want to schedule. Once you have done all, click the “Schedule” button. That’s all; your video has been scheduled successfully.
Before that, let me explain some of the visibility options and usages.
They are,
- Public: The videos that come under this category are visible to everyone.
- Private: Only visible to you, and no one can able to see it.
- Unlisted: This category video is visible to you, and the persons who have video links only can able to watch it. These types of videos won’t come under suggestion video categories.
- Schedule: These videos are visible only when the scheduled date arrives.
Furthermore, you can edit and re-schedule the publish date whenever possible before it goes live.
So, now, I would like to move on to the next topic: how to schedule videos with the help of a famous tool called TubeBuddy. Ok, let’s see.
How to Schedule a YouTube Video using TubeBuddy
Generally, you can schedule videos in two ways. One is the legacy mentioned above, the course we discussed. And the second way is initially uploading the video in private mode and then making it as scheduled.
So, I will convey how to schedule the private video using the TubeBuddy tool (the second way). If you already have this tool on your channel, you can also use this method. Don’t worry; it’s not much more complicated than you think. Follow the below simple steps.
Get TubeBuddy
I hope you have this tool. If not, then click the below button and install it. Firstly, TubeBuddy is a complete YouTube channel guide, video SEO and channel management browser extension tool. Also, it’s a YouTube-certified tool. So you can install it without hesitation and doubts.
For a detailed installation process, check out this step-by-step guide to installing the TubeBuddy Extension.
Upload Video Privately
I assume you installed the tool. Now, upload the video per the above steps we discussed and make the video visible as “Private.”
Schedule YouTube Videos using TubeBuddy.
After you upload it privately, go to the My_videos tab on your channel. You will see the TubeBuddy icon’s on each video when you hover it. Simply click that icon. For reference, check out the below image.
Now it will suggest you some of the TubeBuddy features lists and click the “Schedule Publish” option.
The TubeBuddy schedule that publishes dialogue will appear (below image). Here you can schedule the private video with a few advanced features.
Enter the publish date and time and then set the privacy of it. Also, you can add the video to the specified playlists after publishing. In addition, if you want notifications/remainder now or before 24 hours of the publishing date, set it here. Finally, click the “Schedule Publish” button.
Why an Unlisted video?
You may ask, what is the usage of setting the video visibility to “Unlisted”? The reason is that before the video goes LIVE, it can be achieved here if you want to ask for some reviews from your loyal or regular audiences or your higher authorities. Just giving them early access to view the video.
How to Schedule YouTube Videos on a Phone
Many of the small channel YouTubers upload a video from their smartphone itself. If you’re the one and want to know how to schedule a YouTube video using your phone, then read this section.
Firstly, you must have the YouTube and YouTube studio app on your mobile to schedule the videos. However, you can upload and make the privacy settings “private,” “public,” and “unlisted” in the YouTube app itself. But you can’t be able to schedule it there.
That’s why you need to install the YouTube studio app. Moreover, from YouTube Studio, you can look at your analytics in a little mobile-friendly format.
Upload and Schedule from Phone
- Go to your YouTube app and upload a video with all the metadata details(title, description, tags) in private mode. Once you upload it, that’s all the YouTube app works here. Now switch over to the YouTube Studio app.
- In the YouTube studio, the uploaded video in the YouTube app will become visible here. So, go to that particular video and click the “edit” button.
- You will see the privacy option with the “Scheduled” choice.
- Select that and set the date and time to schedule it.
- Finally, click the save button.
This is how you can schedule the video on a smartphone. Because of the low-quality images, I can’t put the picturization explanations. If you have any doubts about the above steps, kindly let me know in the comment section. I will help you as soon as.
FAQ’s
Well, the answer is different based on your target audience’s location. The best time to publish the video is to analyze when you got more audience engagement. Generally, most people love to watch videos while they are in bed.
To be frank, it saves your last-minute crash possibilities. And also useful for pre-announcement videos.
Summary
Scheduling a YouTube video is the best practice before the video goes live on a particular date. It will mostly eliminate the last-minute hurdle. So, schedule the videos at least a day before the launch.
I hope you understand the instructions for scheduling videos on YouTube in different formats. Feel free to comment here if you face any problems. See you in the next post; until then, bye from Balakumaran.
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So I scheduled my video but, when it released it said it was published at the time I uploaded it and not when I scheduled it for so it said 18 hours ago. Also people didn’t get the notifications for it. Do you know why and how to fix it?
Hey John, It’s completely wrong. First of all, the scheduled video will notify to the subscribers as it’s. Also, the published time and date shows exactly on the scheduled date, not based on the uploaded time. Let me know if you have further doubts ✌