
If you are a content creator and frequently use YouTube to showcase your content, then these YouTube hacks are exactly what you need.
- Create a GIF from a YouTube video
One of the best ways to promote your content on social media and make it go viral is to share it in form of a GIF. And this easy YouTube hack will help you create GIFs from any video in just a few minutes.
- Open the video.
- Add the word “gif” before YouTube in the URL. It should read: www.gifyoutube.com/[VideoID]
- Customize your GIF.
Time to create, share and enjoy GIFs.
- See the transcript of a video
Did you know YouTube automatically creates transcripts for every video created on its platform?
Here’s how you can see this transcript:
- From the video, click the three-dot ellipsis beside Save.
- Select Open transcript.
Now finding quotes and copying text from videos is just a matter of a few seconds.
- Youtube Subscribers Hack
What if we told you that there is a hack to get more YouTube subscribers organically. Yes, you heard it right. Now you can create a link that opens with an automatic subscribe prompt.
- Find your channel ID or Custom URL. From your channel page, you’ll find it here: https://www.youtube.com/user/[ChannelID].
- Paste your ID here: www.youtube.com/user/[ChannelID]?sub_confirmation=1.
- Use this link for your subscribe CTAs.
- Blur faces in your videos
Need to blur the face in your video? Or cover up a brand logo? This YouTube hack lets you blur static and moving figures in your videos.
- Sign in to YouTube Studio.
- Select Videos.
- Click the video you’d like to edit.
- Select Editor.
- Click Get Started.
- Click Add Blur.
- Next to Blur faces click Edit.
- Once processing is complete, click the thumbnails of the faces you’d like to blur.
- Click Save.
- Click Save again.
- Create a blocked words list
Social Media can sometimes be a nasty place and not everyone knows how to respect someone’s space. There are times when some negative and mean comments or words become the cause of stress, anxiety, and depression. This YouTube Hack can help creators to block certain words and comments for good. These comments that include blocked language will be held for review before they are shown publicly.
Here’s how you can create a blocked list for YouTube comments
- Sign in to YouTube Studio.
- Select Settings from the left menu, then select Community.
- Scroll down to the Blocked Words field. Add the words or phrases you would like blocked, separated by commas.