Creating sections on your YouTube channel
helps organize your videos for viewers and
makes your channel look more professional.
It's pretty simple to do and makes a huge
impression on views.
So when you're logged into your YouTube channel,
go to the Creator Studio and under the Video
Manager, click on Playlists.
Here you'll see all the playlists on your
channel, if you haven't created any playlists
then this area will be blank.
Now click on New Playlist at the top.
Here we can name the playlist so viewers know
what type of videos will be in this list.
You can also have the playlist public, unlisted
or private.
I'll keep it public so it'll show up on my
channel.
Now click Create.
On this page we'll start adding videos to
the playlist.
Click on the Add Videos button on the top
right and a new menu pops up.
When you click on the Your YouTube Videos
button, all your uploaded videos will show
up.
Now just click on the videos you want added
to the playlist.
When you're done selecting, click on Add Videos
at the bottom.
This page now lists all the videos in the
newly created playlist.
Before leaving this page, we'll need to copy
the URL of the playlist by clicking on the
Share button.
Copy the highlighted link in the box.
Now click on My Channel to view your main
channel page.
Right now I can see a problem because the
Add Section button is missing.
It's supposed to be here down at the bottom.
If yours is missing, do this.
Click on the gear icon next to the Subscribe
button.
Here we need to flip the switch to be able
to customize our channel.
Just activate the button and then click Save.
Now the Add Section button appears at the
bottom of the main page.
Click on Add Sections and you'll have some
options here.
So in the Content section, I'm only interested
in using a Single Playlist.
There are also Layout options but I will keep
in on Horizonal Row.
In the Choose a Playlist menu, select Enter
Playlist URL.
And this is where you'll paste the URL we
copied earlier.
After you click Save, the new section will
appear on your YouTube page with the name
of the playlist as the title.
Now repeat the previous steps to add more
sections on your YouTube page.
Once you get the hang of it, making new sections
is quite easy to do.
I'm just going to quickly make one more section
on my page.
This one will be called Taco Trucks.
And just so you know, you can have a total
of 10 custom sections.
I actually went a long time without having
sections but it made my channel look really
amateurish.
By organizing videos into sections, it can
help viewers find the videos they're interested
in.
One last thing you should know.
The sections can be reordered so you can have
the most important ones up top.
Here you can see me moving the Burger Trucks
and Uploads sections.
For some reason, the Uploads section doesn't
have any videos in it right now.
Another cool thing you can do is to automatically
add videos to a certain playlist.
So let's go back to the Playlist creator and
I'm going to choose my Taco Truck playlist
as an example.
Here click on Playlist Settings and in the
window, click on Auto Add.
I think this is really cool and saves time
when adding new videos to your sections and
playlists.
I can just add a rule and new videos will
automatically show up in a designated playlist.
I'll make the rule follow a tag.
I'll type in taco and burrito here and click
Save.
Now, any video I upload that has the tag taco
or burrito will automatically show up in the
Taco Truck section and playlist.
Now that's a pretty cool trick I think!
And before I end this video, I want to show
you what popular channels look like with their
sections filled.
This is the Dumpling Sisters page and it's
a recipe channel.
They have a lot of videos on their channel
and you can see they've categorized their
videos into Popular Recipes, Ingredients,
Chicken Recipes, Beef Recipes and so on.
Irene Rudnyk's photography channel also has
sections based tutorial videos, tips and DIY.
I hope you found this video helpful and if
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