If you’re a content creator, you’re often doing the jobs of 5, 10 even 20 people trying to get the world to know your videos exist, I’ve got a bunch of quick and easy ways to help you simplify your workload, maximize your reach and give you back some free time.
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Social Media
Whenever you publicly upload a new YouTube video, this routine will automatically make a post on Twitter/X – this does require the pro plan, cause Elon charges too much for API connections, but this is a great have https://ifttt.com/applets/Fxz3nYti-if-new-public-video-uploaded-to-youtube-then-post-a-tweet-to-twitter
New YouTube Video Create a WordPress Blog Post
Easily create a new blog post on your WordPress blog (self hosted or not), you can have it save to a draft or publish right away.
New YouTube video create a Blogger post
Not a wordpress user? grab this same concept but for blogger
New YouTube Video to Reddit r/videos
Reddit has a vast community of anything you could want, use this routine to post your latest video to r/Videos, but keep in mind you can do this with any subreddit, even your own dedicated sub reddit
https://ifttt.com/applets/TpiVUMyn-share-your-latest-youtube-uploads-on-r-videos?ref=nzk3mty&tap_s=4609072-42286c&tm_Xauto=SM
Live Stream
Post when Live on Twitch to Discord
https://ifttt.com/applets/U4a8NTCD-share-a-now-live-message-on-discord-when-you-go-live-on-twitch
Watch your Competition
Knowing what trends are happening on other channels in your niche is important, and being able to keep track of all of that can be really time consuming. These automations will notify you, make lists and help you keep an eye on what’s happening in your niche instantly
Notify me when a YT I sub to posts
Archiving
New YouTube video posted (public) Add new row to Google Sheets