in this video i'm going to walk you
through everything you need to know
about creating
playlists on youtube with your own
videos as well as incorporating other
people's videos
into your playlists i'm also going to
share some best practices for
ranking these playlists on youtube
stay tuned because all that is coming up
you got to just press record
hey guys my name is nolan mult with
think media now today i'm actually going
to be using my computer to show you how
to do this
but it's going to be the same steps if
you are using your smartphone with that
being said let's
jump right into the video now the
easiest way to actually create a
playlist in my opinion
and to start a new playlist or add
videos to your playlist
is simply by hovering over these three
dots so
when you move your mouse over the video
right now i am on the think
media homepage so this is going to be
adding our own videos
to a new playlist and then later on i'm
going to show you how to add in other
videos
but if we hover over one of our own
videos you're going to see these three
dots appear on the right side so let's
hover over this one since i am in this
video
i'm gonna click on those three dots we
have some options here at the very
bottom
we have a button called save to playlist
now when we click
on save to playlist what we're seeing
here is a bunch of playlists that we've
already made on the think media channel
and so once you have some set up this is
where you're gonna see a lot of
your playlists happen and uh what we're
gonna do right now though is we are
going to create a new playlist which is
what you see right
here at the bottom the plus button
create new playlist we are going to
select that
and here we're able to put in a name and
so for this
instance i am just going to start
creating a playlist
of motivational content okay and so i'm
going to add
some motivational videos and i'm
actually going to show you how to remove
this video later on in the video and i
want some
motivational video so i'm going to
create a playlist called
motivational videos down here under
privacy
we can choose to either make this public
which means that anyone can find this in
search
anyone can find this on our actual
youtube channel
and then unlisted would be anyone with a
link can find
that playlist so if i want to send it to
someone it's not going to be public for
people to search for or to see
on my channel but if they have the link
they can go and check out that playlist
for this case i'm not done with the
playlist yet i'm just starting it
and so i am going to make a private
playlist which means
only i can see it and that way no one
can see
my motivational videos now we are going
to hit
create now that's one of the many ways
to create a playlist and i'm going to
show you some other ways to create
playlists and so
stay tuned because i'm going to show you
exactly everything you need to know
exactly where to go to add more videos
take out videos
and then some really cool tricks for
ranking these playlists
but let's go into youtube search and
let's add a couple
more motivational videos to our playlist
so i'm just going to search for
motivation and
we are going to see some videos pop up
here now i'm going to add a couple of
these videos to my playlist simply by
hovering over
the video you're going to see these
three dots appear again and i'm going to
click that and i
am going to save to playlist and now we
should be able to see it's here right at
the top it says motivational videos
and to the right you see this little
lock that is showing us that it is a
private playlist and so i am going to
select that box
and then automatically you can see it's
been added to motivational videos in the
bottom left-hand corner
at this point i can just exit out by
hitting the x
and that video is now in my playlist
now if i want to actually watch the
video and see if i like it before adding
it to my playlist you can click on the
video
you can start to watch it and then you
have a save
button down here where this is where you
can actually save this to your playlist
you still have this
here but this time this button does not
let you add that to a playlist so you
have this little symbol and the save
button and that is the same exact thing
we can add that to our motivational
videos and we see it's been added we can
exit out of this
and now we've added we have three total
videos in our motivational videos
playlist
so now if we want to go to our playlist
maybe make some changes change the title
what i'm going to do is i'm going to go
to my youtube channel
and you're going to see something here
when i go to playlists on my actual
channel
we're not going to see our motivational
videos playlist if i go through
all of these you're not going to see
them because it is
private so what we need to do here is we
actually need to go into our youtube
studio you can do that by clicking on
the icon here and going to youtube
studio
and on the left side of the screen we're
actually going to have a playlist button
so we are going to go
to playlist it's gonna open a brand new
page for us here you're also able to
make a new
playlist as well and you have these same
options and so there are a few ways to
do this
and so i hope that showing you all of
them as you come across so you can find
what is easiest and what's going to work
best for you here we're able to see all
179 playlists i know we have a lot of
playlists but think media has been
around for a long time so we have a lot
of playlists here
we can go over here we could search for
our playlist but since we just made the
motivational videos playlist and have
been adding to it
it's right here at the top of our page
if you click on play all this is
actually going to take you to the videos
into that playlist so you can start
watching those videos if you'd like but
we don't want to watch the videos we
want to actually make some changes and
so
we're going to go over here wait over to
the right we're going to hit edit now
this is the page that we really want to
be on because we're going to make some
cool changes in here
where we can really optimize the
description we can even optimize you
know re-change
the title and even add and subtract
videos
all within here so right now we have our
playlist and
there's a few things we can do the first
thing is remove
a video now i'm going to hover over this
top video i don't want
this video in my motivational videos
playlist so i'm going to click
on these three dots and right here we
can see that we can remove
from motivational videos so i'm going to
select that
and now we have our two motivational
videos inside of our playlist now if we
click on those three dots again we
actually have some
really cool features that we can do so
if i click on this i can either move
this to the top of the playlist i can
move it to the bottom of the playlist
where it's already at
or i can set as a playlist thumbnail so
automatically youtube is going to create
a thumbnail for your playlist based on
your top video which happens to be this
one
right here and you can see this is
actually what people are gonna see on
youtube when they find this playlist but
let's say that i want
this image to be my thumbnail and if i
move it to the top it's automatically
going to be the thumbnail but if i
don't want that specific video to be the
thumbnail for the playlist
you can select a video that is you know
lower than that top video
and set as playlist thumbnail and that
is going to
update your playlist to have that as
your thumbnail over here on the left
side we can
edit the title and here you want to
apply the same kind of practices and
same kind of keywords that you normally
would do
on a youtube video and if you want to
learn more about ranking and search
and really go deep diving into that head
over
to thinkmasterclass.com and sean has a
free web class that you guys can watch
right now at the end of this video go
watch that and you're going to learn
a lot and so you want to use those
practices
and implement that into your playlist
titles as well
in this case without doing a bunch of
research i'm just going to
retitle motivational videos to
motivational video compilation
i'm going to hit save and that is now
going to update my title
and then what's really cool down here is
we have a description and you want to
add
actually some keywords and a really good
sentence in there
that is going to help optimize your
playlist
so i've added something random in there
about motivation and these videos and
how it is going to help you become your
best self
and this is really going to help you
when it comes to
ranking these playlists you want to make
sure that your
title is optimized you want to make sure
that you do have the best
thumbnail on there and you want to make
sure that you have a description in
there so youtube can then
take that description and really help
learn who
this playlist is for right here on the
left side as well
we can go ahead and make it public when
it's ready to go public
we could also change it to unlisted if
we want to if we click these three dots
we're going to see that we can add some
more videos we can also
add all these videos to a different
playlist if we would like to
we can also make a collaborator so if i
click on this
if i want to add a collaborator maybe i
want someone to add
some other videos that they found
motivational
what i can do here is i can actually
invite people to become a collaborator
and then they're able to add videos as
well another thing we can see
is playlist settings and if i open that
up what you can do is
embed you can allow embedding what that
means is that if someone wants to embed
this into their website or into their
blog
they're able to do that and so i
recommend turning that on
it's going to help you get more views if
people really want to share this to
their website you could also add new
videos to the top of the playlist if
you'd like for me
i just want them to be added to the
bottom of the playlist so i'm going to
leave
that off and i'm going to hit done now
when it comes to adding
more videos it's really simple you can
go ahead and
search on youtube like you normally
would you know so if i typed in
motivational videos we're going to see
those videos pop
up again or if you have some links that
maybe someone sent you you can add those
in here
by clicking on url and pasting that link
directly into there and you can add that
video in
or if you'd like to add some of your own
youtube videos you can
go here and you can see all of your
youtube videos
and add those to the playlist as well
now if you want to delete the playlist
you can go in here you can hit delete
playlist and this is how you would get
rid of it
but i do not want to do that so i'm
going to hit cancel now finding a link
to actually share your playlist
sometimes can be tricky so before we get
to that
like this video if you learned something
new and comment down below
let us know what you use playlists for
do you usually use them to try and rank
and search
or do you use them to organize your own
videos or to collect other people's
videos let us know in the comments down
below so in order to make this playlist
available for everyone to see and to
copy a link to share into
my youtube description what you need to
do is
you need to make it public so i'm going
to click up here and i'm going to change
it to public
once i've made it public what i need to
do is actually
refresh the page and so i am going to go
back i'm then going to open up my
playlist again
now we can see it is public and i have
this share button right here so if i
click the share button
i'm going to get a link and i can copy
this now
what i can do is go into my youtube
description and i can add
that link to my youtube description i'll
take them right to that playlist all
natively
inside of the app so now what i'm doing
is i'm uploading a random
video to the youtube channel and i'm
going to show you how to add
this video to a playlist when you're
inside youtube studio while uploading
your video
so i'm uploading my video and if i
scroll down i'm
actually able to add this to a playlist
right here you're going to see playlists
just under the thumbnail section you're
going to see playlists
now when i click on this it's going to
open up all of the playlists and again
motivational
video compilation is right there at the
top because we were just editing it but
you can also search for a playlist
and here you can also make a new
playlist if you want to go new playlist
and make one there you can but i'm going
to add this
to my motivational video compilation hit
done
now when i publish this video it is
going to go to the bottom
of that playlist i hope you guys enjoyed
that video if you want to click on the
screen right now
you can actually watch a playlist that
we made that covers all sorts of the
youtube
basics so you definitely want to check
that out i'll see you guys in the next
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