YouTube's Creator Studio tin can exist a bit hard to navigate, but there are a lot of features hidden in menus and tabs that you might find useful as a content creator.

The Channel Overview Page

On the Videos folio, you'll detect an overview of all of your uploads. From hither, you can cheque out view counts, encounter which videos take been demonetized (a mutual occurence on YouTube nowadays), and have quick admission to the edit tabs for each video. You can accomplish much the same thing but from your channel's page, just to edit a particular video from in that location, you'd accept to click on the video so click "Edit." Doing it from the Videos page saves you lot a click.

On the drop-downward carte for each video, you get quick access to all the edit features YouTube has to offer.

From there, you tin can edit your video'south annotations, cards, and stop screen, also as download the video from YouTube or even delete it.

Clicking "Info and Settings" (or just "Edit") brings you to the video's main settings page.

From here, you can do a lot. The most useful features exterior of editing the title and description are in the "Advanced Settings" tab. Y'all tin can plow off or change the sorting on comments, modify your video's category and subcategory (if you lot make gaming videos, yous should be putting the title of the game hither), and disable embedding on other sites.

Yous can also modify the thumbnail with the instance thumbnails at the top, or upload your own. YouTube thumbnails are 1280×720, or 720p.

Cards

If you want, you tin put some info upwardly in the top right corner, such every bit a link to another video, channel, or link. These cards are useful for when you mention something in a video and demand to provide a link.

Terminate Screen Annotations

A lot of people forget that they can create terminate screen annotations. You can customize the videos that show at the end of yours, which helps people to proceed watching your content after they're washed with one video.

Y'all tin add together elements manually, or import them from another video.

Yous tin can add a subscribe push button to the middle of the screen, bear witness off your most recent upload, a specific video or playlist, or only let YouTube pick from your aqueduct. Whatever you lot do, it's better than leaving information technology blank.

Since this screen shows up in the terminal few seconds of your actual video, most YouTubers integrate this into their outro. In one case you've got a template you like, yous can blueprint your outro effectually it to make some cool looking terminate screens.

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