Don’t lose your YouTube viewers to OTHER suggested channels
It’s a good idea to put all your YouTube videos into a playlist of one kind or another. These playlists could be arranged by series, album, or theme (live performances, music videos, rig rundowns, etc.)
Then — if you do what we suggest in the video above — when you share or embed an individual video, your viewers can be guided towards a deeper experience. The next video in the playlist will automatically play at the conclusion of the previous one.
If you only share the standard video link, then YouTube will display a bunch of suggested videos at the end of your own video — and that’s no fun! You don’t want the possibility that YouTube will lead your viewers AWAY from you.
Instead, when you share a video, grab the PLAYLIST link for that video (rather than the standard video link). Here’s how:
- Go to one of your playlists on YouTube
- Click on the video within that playlist you’d like to share
- Click the “Share” or “Embed” button
- Make sure the “Share with playlist starting from [current video]” box is checked
- Copy the code and share!
Simple enough, right? But musicians often forget to take the extra few seconds to grab the playlist link, and it means they’re losing out on additional views. (I’m guilty too). So let’s remember to remember, okay?
Chris Robley is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and award-winning poet from Maine.
His Beatlesque indie-pop and milltown Americana songs have been praised by The Associated Press, No Depression, KCRW, The LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, and others.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, and more.
Robley has received a Maine Literary Award in Poetry, Boulevard’s Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry, and in 2016 was selected by former US-poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.