Scheduling Videos

[PistnRods]

I prefer to schedule a few days ahead, but life doesn't always let me. I don't go ahead too much because well...gotta stay current sometimes.

 

[SkiddyJ]

I just upload while I'm sleeping if I do it whilst awake it slows my net down too much I hate Australian internet speeds. It's so crap.

 

[hungabustavlogs]

I just upload when I can.
Life quite often gets in the way of me consistently making videos, so I just make them when I can and then release them when they're ready.

 

[MunkehsMotors]

I do my best to record a vlog every monday on the way to work, then edit and publish it that evening. But I might start using the scheduling feature for some of my longer videos, like test rides, as it seems to take youtube ages to process the video into a decent quality.

 

[BikerCam]

It would be a great feature if your going on holiday or have a busy few weeks, but like you say it can be counter productive trying to get videos out at the same time each week, it's better doing videos when you feel like it

 

[Marbro_za]

Dont know of people that watch vlogs like they would a tv show Thats on tuesday nights at 8 or what ever..

 

[SwissMotard]

Dont know of people that watch vlogs like they would a tv show Thats on tuesday nights at 8 or what ever..

People don't, it's why obsessing over scheduling is strange.

No one will notice if you are a few days late or miss a week.

 

[TheDutchTexan]

I have done that a few times in the past, but now I just edit a vlog, upload it and set it public whenever. Sometimes I plan and tease a video such as cars and coffee, but I still personally publish it around that time.

 

[BbqRider]

I don't think it matters a lot when you upload, as long as you upload with some sort of regularity eg. once a week, once every two weeks etc.

 

[ThatWanGuy]

I do use the scheduling feature especially for those 'non time sensitive' videos. Just to space them out and not publish like 10 videos at one time.

For those video which are time sensitive (vlogging abt recent events) i upload & put it to private first.. Leave it for a day. Then last minute edits & changes before i make it public. Works for me

 

[Marbro_za]

People don't, it's why obsessing over scheduling is strange.

No one will notice if you are a few days late or miss a week.

I generally only notice if they havent uploaded in like 2months

 

[RogueMogul]

I've been getting in the habit of scheduling. I've got two in the chamber now so my next two weeks I can focus on more editing, and creating more content. Also, if something "current events" comes up, I can just throw it up and reschedule the other vids, or just say "screw it" and have two go up in a week.

Most everything else in my life is on a schedule, I figure why not the videos?

 

[AndyManCam]

I've never really relied on scheduling. I tried it once but was so impatient that i released the video manually an hour before the 'go time' anyway!

Now i upload as 'unlisted' and release via the Google Studio app on my phone.

Contrary to my usual impatient ways, i recently edited 7 or 8 videos together from a trip to the UK and had them all uploaded ready. I've released 1 every Monday and Friday so far. But as a little treat, they're all available via in-video links and 'cards' at the end of each video!

 

[elmSTnasty]

I've recently come across the scheduled videos feature on YouTube that lets you upload but not publish. Kind of handy and I've got two videos already scheduled for later in the week.

This isn't a waffling thread, so I wanted to ask if anyone here pre-records and schedules videos or do people just do them on the day/whenever they finish editing a video it instantly goes up?

I'm preferring the former method atm, gives me time to not have to worry about keeping to an upload schedule knowing two videos are already done & ready.

Also furthermore, do any of you stick religiously to a schedule of which days of the week your videos will be up?

I don't because I tend to find that's counter-productive in that it might mean you start scrambling for topics/things to talk about. That could end up making you produce low quality videos just to keep to a schedule. I'd rather not upload for a week and come up with something good than to produce lots of content too quickly, which is part of the reason I don't have a trailer for my channel actually.

So yeah, thoughts & practices guys?

You're 100% right about scheduling videos (Monday and Wednesday, Wednesday and Friday, ect.)...it leads to lower quality and that's why I stopped watching almost all of the bigger channels. The only reason I did it is because I recorded about 2 hours worth of topics I wanted to talk about in 4 days, and I felt like they were worthy to post after editing/rendering them. As far as the YouTube scheduling option, I like it. If you're uploading a video and YouTube says it'll be done in an hour, you can set it to go live in 2 hours and know all of the resolutions will be there when someone watches it. Also, if you put out on social media that you'll have a video up at say 4 p.m. in your time zone, people will know they'll have something to watch.

 

[endurovlog]

good thread, some food for thought here. i've just made them private initially then go public when i feel like it, but liked the idea of letting them bank up a bit for the lean times. i've been going a bit overboard lately and just posting a vid every day but it makes sense to spread them out for when you have a quiet week or month. i'm sure motivation will drop in a few weeks when the summer heat kicks in, bleah...