Is TubeBuddy ACTUALLY Worth It?

I just spent the last seven million hours testing tubebuddy and I'm ready to give you my honest opinion my honest take on if I think tubebuddy is worth it or not all right all dogs aside I didn't quite spend seven million hours but I have spent a ton of time in the tubebuddy tool over the last few weeks and I'm excited to share with you what I found Tubidy touts itself as the ultimate growth tool for YouTube channels and I've been on YouTube for years and I've never actually used tubebuddy before so going into my testing I was able to keep the average crater in mind I wanted to see if the tools here offered by tubebuddy we're going to provide as much value to you as possible for the best price the way that I'm going to kind of lay this video out is based on the pricing tier tubebuddy has three tiers they have a free version of kind of this medium pro version and then like the expert level version that costs of course the most money I've actually looked at every single feature offered and I've just noted down which ones I think would actually help a Creator move their Channel forward and grow their YouTube channel and guess what I'm not going to bury the lead here I'm the free version of tubebuddy he has pretty much everything that I would say a Creator would want to get started now like I said I've been on YouTube for years and I've never used it before and have found some success but I think there are some elements or some tools in the tubebuddy tool that could help a brand new Creator get on the right path and stay on the right path and that's not to say that the other tiers or levels don't have Merit I think that there are some really awesome features offered in the upgraded versions of tubebuddy I think most of those tools would be most helpful for specific use cases not something you'd necessarily need every single month so what I would probably do is just have the free version and then upgrade it if I ended up needing a feature in the more expensive plans and then I could always just downgrade back to where I was so there you have it if you were looking for that answer then you can just go download tubebuddy we actually have a link in the description below that you can use we are Affiliates for tubebuddy but if you actually want to find out why I came to this conclusion why I think the free version is the most value or if you want to find out the specific features I think could really help you grow your channel then stick around we're going to do a deep dive and I think it's going to be awesome tubebuddy has a lot of features you can see here they have a ton of options tons of tools tons of features for you to use and I went through every single one so we're going to start just by the ones that I think I would use the most and I would recommend creators use all right the first one we have here in the free option of tubebuddy is the quick links menu all this is is it's a simple menu that you can put together to more easily navigate YouTube save a little time not having to click through a bunch of drop down menus I think that this one's not going to be huge for your success but it could save a little bit more time and keep you a little bit more optimized the Emoji picker okay hear me out on this one this one again is not going to be like Make It or Break It for your channel but there have been so many times where I'm going to post a video maybe shorts and I've wanted to put Emojis as part of the title and unless I'm uploading on my phone this isn't a super easy thing to do there are definitely ways to do it on desktop but it's just not super convenient all right all of those ones that I just mentioned are kind of like cool helpful maybe a little bit of optimization time optimization these next few that I'm going to talk about under the free version of tubebuddy are probably a little bit kind of what you would say the meat and potatoes of it the first one is videolytics and what you can get here is researching your competitors videos to see what's working and what's not working for them you can get insights on trending videos to see what's hot you can also compare videos on YouTube with other videos to see kind of what their stats look like I love the data here and I think that the data is really where you can start getting some value we're able to look at other people's videos and their statistics to see what might also work for us I like to think of it as more of a collaborative helpful thing than a competitor type thing again back to some really awesome statistics here we have the channelytics feature and as you can see you can just compare your channel to other channels and you can look at you know views you can look at how many videos you have you can see what your competitor's most viewed video is this is just a good feature to have again to see what's going on in your Niche on YouTube I don't think it's necessary to watch your competitors very closely but it's good to be informed in what's going on and you can definitely find a lot of this data that's pulled together it's available on YouTube you can see view counts you can see you know most popular video but I think again overall I would say that this is a very bunch of convenience thing tubebuddy does a really good job of pulling all these stats together all this information together so that you have all of it in one place it makes it much easier to find much more digestible and last but not least under the free version of features that I would actually use we have search insights and I think that this is just a cool one because a lot of small creators they start by doing searchable videos and YouTube searches a small portion of the views that actually happen on YouTube but a lot of creators start there and so you can get some really cool insights to see like what channels are ranking in search you know how many subscribers they have views on their videos it's just a nice clean snapshot of what's happening in search for a specific keyword or it says also here you can look into tags subscriber counts likes dislikes or video those and then ranking on a given search term all within the search result page so overall these are the free features that I would personally use with tubebuddy I don't know if any of them are like total game changers because I can find all of this data on YouTube myself but what I do love about it is they just simplify it for us you don't have to go looking for this one piece of information on this channel and the same piece of information on another Channel you can just save so much time by looking at it all in one place and I think that's the biggest value that I see with the free version of tubebuddy and even all the other paid options with tubebuddy is a lot of the features are very convenience based but I wouldn't say that you have to have you don't need it to be successful on YouTube I just think that it could be really helpful all right now that we've looked at all the free options within tubebuddy which I think are really helpful I think it's a great place to start so if you're ready to get started with that just go sign up now links in the description but if you want to look at the pro version which is just under ten dollars a month at the time of recording this video there are some very helpful features here that you might actually be interested in so let's get started first one is the thumbnail generator now we all spend a lot of time making thumbnails right whether it's with canva or photoshop or some other sort of photo editor we're spending a lot of time doing this tubebuddy has a really nice integrated thumbnail generator kind of creation tool where you can create thumbnails right in a very integrated Way on YouTube and one thing that I really like that I think is probably the most helpful here is that you can create templates now you can do this in other places too but I love how integrated it is you can create templates so if you have like a playlist of videos with very similar thumbnails rather than having to recreate the thumbnail every single time you can have kind of this very general basic template that you can just apply to the thumbnail and then make it look great very easily all right this next one is kind of unique and again I'd say that this is on a very case-by-case basis but kind of a cool feature nonetheless playlist action so this is what you can do with it you can order your playlist based on engagement subscribers gained or watch time you can also randomize alphabetize or reverse the order of the videos on the playlist you can also remove private or unlisted videos from playlists so it just gives you a little bit of flexibility and capability in working with your playlist seeing what's working on your channel it'd be so awesome to have like this playlist of all your top videos and be able to just to kind of formulate or create that really quickly I just think it's kind of a cool helpful feature but it's it might be one that I plan out and then maybe the next month I'll upgrade and then do it but then I can downgrade again it's not one that I would probably be playing with every single month and that brings us to suggested shorts now out of all of the tools on the pro version of tubebuddy this is probably one of my favorite I am a big advocate for clipping content I think that short form content there's a lot of Merit to it it is a totally different audience than if you have long form videos but I think using short form content is very important on your YouTube strategy so what the suggested shorts tool does is it helps you find high engagement points in your videos and it recommends that you clip them into shorts this is really cool to me because it's using a very data driven approach which I think is super smart it'll help give you ideas for new shorts and it will just save you video production time so if Shorts is part of your strategy I think that this one could be really awesome these next two tools that I'm going to talk about in the pro version of tubebuddy I have some mixed feelings here so the first one is the keyword Explorer and the second one is the search Explorer now I think these tools have Merit but you have to understand the tool so these tools are using data from channels right the only issue is that tubebuddy does not have a complete data set so even if they're working with thousands maybe even hundreds of thousands maybe millions of channels that's good data but it's just not totally complete data the keyword Explorer is going to be looking at kind of keywords that people are using you know in their videos and their tags all these different things and so you could look up a specific topic and find what the keyword is you know what what rank it is the overall score is it a good keyword to pursue is it not and I think that this tool can be helpful for idea generation both of these because the the keyword Explorer and the search Explorer I think they can be helpful to generate video ideas but my only concern with these tools is that we become too reliant on them I think that sometimes the tools are inaccurate based on what I've seen with a lot of keyword tools since they're not complete data sets you just don't get a hundred percent value from it sometimes they might steer you away from a topic that you really could have done well on and so I think that these again are great for idea generation and if you have a couple extra bucks a month to spend and you think it would really help you create good video ideas then yeah this could be a great tool for you but I don't want you to become too reliant on it so I would almost say get very comfortable with your video ideas have the ideation process but then maybe add this in later to see if it can enhance that process rather than using this tool or these tools as crutches and the last two things are the member perks and the tubebuddy mobile app so you get access complete access to the tubebuddy mobile app but then you also get some member perks some of these perks are like songs and Graphics that you can put in your videos for free it's just again really helpful kind of convenient things that you might have to pay for otherwise but you would just get with tubebuddy so those are kind of cool especially for just a few bucks a month all right that wraps up the pro features of tubebuddy the ones that I would actually use you'll notice that I did not cover a lot of them and that's just because I think for the most part since I have done YouTube for so long without these tools I just don't see them as completely necessary for someone who's just getting started if you built a lot of these tools into your process I could see that you might be reliant on them and that's not totally a bad thing but I think it's good to be confident in the process without a ton of tools so that's why I didn't cover every single aspect of tubebuddy I just covered the things that I think could be useful for you or me as a Creator and last but not least that brings us to the legend version of tubebuddy which is nearly thirty dollars a month at the time of recording this now at the beginning of this video I said that the free version of tubebuddy was in my opinion the most value and so a lot of these features that I'm just going to run through here really quick under the legend version of tubebuddy they're mostly like a case-by-case basis type tools that I just wouldn't use every month but they have Merit I think that they could be potentially helpful so let's get into it first thing is scheduled publish I think that this is really cool because you can release your videos early without releasing them publicly so like if you have a patreon if you're a larger Channel you can just make it seamless you don't have to worry about oh I need to go get this video up to my patreon and then release it later on YouTube it just makes it easier to do so this one is a really helpful feature again on a case-by-case basis to bulk find replace and append from video titles descriptions across the entire channel so in YouTube you can set a description that is on every single video going forward but you can't go back and change all of your old descriptions all at once well tubebuddy is allowing you to do that and I think that this is a great feature like for example if you have 100 or 200 videos on your channel and you're in a you've been an affiliate with somebody for a long time but now you're not anymore for whatever reason and you want to go through and remove those links well rather than clicking through 200 videos and removing the link individually you can use this tool to go and replace or delete the affiliate link I think by simply using this too buddy you could probably save yourself a lot of time and it would totally be worth the 25 to 30 dollars for the month where you ended up needing to use it this is kind of a cool feature one that I wouldn't use all the time the bulk thumbnail overlay where you could put an overlay on a thumbnail like maybe you were doing like a special promotion on a certain number of videos or if they watch these certain videos then they you know your audience would get something or whatever it's like for example if on channel makers I wanted to go through and put a little overlay on all the videos that were about monetization I could do that but maybe I only wanted those to be there for a little bit well this would give me the flexibility to add the overlay but then remove them without going in and changing every single thumbnail individually again kind of a bulk cool feature for those of you with channels that have Global audiences or audiences that are that are speaking multiple languages you can translate your video title and description into other languages to increase your Global viewership I kind of think that this is cool it wouldn't surprise me if not already if there were features that YouTube came out with kind of on its own but for now I'm kind of of a cool feature next up then this is a big one I think as far as tube but it goes I think that this is probably one of two buddies most kind of quote famous tools or options that they have and it's their a b testing YouTube has been talking about coming out with an A B thumbnail tester for a long time wrapped into this for in two buddies tool is a title generator kind of this AI title generator as well what do I think about this I think it's cool I think YouTube is eventually going to come out with some sort of a b testing I know that at the time of recording this video there are some larger craters on the platform who are testing a tool for the YouTube that does a b testing and then as far as the AI tile generation goes I played around with it a little bit and it's not bad it definitely gives you some good title ideas but when comparing it to a tool like chat GPT or other AI tools it's very similar you can get very similar results so I'd rather use a free tool for that than paying for it here but again the value could just be the integration having it all in one place could be pretty nice this one that I actually kind of like if you're collaborating with other people other channels and you want to to you know give the max some access to the back end of your channel without giving them complete access you can give people limited permissions on your channel to help you potentially become a better Creator and I just think that that's kind of a cool collaborative move by tubebuddy to say hey let's work together let's give a way to give safe access to our channels without kind of jeopardizing the safety of our business and that brings us to Brand alerts this feature in tubebuddy allows you to monitor YouTube for videos playlists channels anything that's uploaded that mentions you or your brand how is this helpful well I think it's just more interesting it's good to know when people are talking about you as a user on YouTube I think it's really interesting when I go to a video where maybe a channel is talking about another brand and then that other brand comes and comments on the video to me I love to see that interaction and I think that this tool could be really helpful to help you identify some of those things now if you get tagged then YouTube will just notify you automatically but again just like most of the features that we've talked about in tubebuddy you can get to the same place by just using the to platform but tubebuddy just makes it more integrated and easier to use so these are the features under the legend version of tubebuddy that I would find helpful there's probably another 20 30 maybe even 40 features in tubebuddy that I just didn't really think would be that helpful and I don't mean that as kind of a diss on them or anything like that I think that there's a lot of creators out there that would find a lot of these tools helpful but as a Creator who's not used a lot of YouTube growth tools before I already have systems set where I just don't feel like I need to rely a lot on tools and I would encourage all of you to find tools that help move the needle for you find tools that help you become a better Creator but don't make you reliant on the tools we want to see you as a Creator grow and Thrive and we want you to use tools to support yourself in that so I hope you found this review really helpful there are a lot of great tools a lot of great features in tubebuddy like I said at the beginning of the video I would probably just opt for the free version above anything else decide what's best for you and then go for it create more content do what you think is going to help you and your channel the most now tubebuddy is not the only YouTube growth tool out there you may have heard of vid IQ well guess what we've done another video All About vid IQ but we put tubebuddy head to head with vid IQ and we have just seen which one is the best we have a whole video on that a head-to-head review of vid IQ versus tubebuddy so if you want to see which one of the two tools we think are best go check that video out now it is out live ready for you to watch thank you guys for joining me on this video leave a like if you found the video helpful and subscribe if you haven't thanks for watching we'll see in the next one

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Published: Thu Sep 14 2023