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How To Become To A Greater Extent Than Or Less Youtube: Creator Studio, Settings Together With Guide

By ahlikom

What happened to my Settings, Playlists, Channel together with Video Manager?

Note: every bit of March 2019 this "old desktop experience" is yet partially available, but is gradually beingness replaced yesteryear a newer layout. The concern human relationship navigation links all yet work. 
 
Last calendar week YouTube made a pregnant modify to navigation. Clicking your channel avatar used to display an extensive card at the top of the page, but straightaway all you lot volition honour is to a greater extent than simplified card that lets you lot select Creator Studio, settings or switch channel identities. Several options - such every bit your Video Manager - are straightaway several clicks away.

New YouTube navigation basics: channel identity, Creator Studio together with Settings

Open the novel navigation drop-down card YouTube yesteryear clicking your channel icon or avatar inward the upper correct corner. Here are the basics: 

Select your channel identity

The top of the navigation card displays the email username of the Google concern human relationship you lot are signed into, together with below that the channel identity you lot are using. 

If you lot desire to switch channel identities, exactly select the channel from the list. 

Included inward the listing are Google+ Pages you lot teach by that don't yet take keep a connected channel, they are labeled "Create Channel". Not surprisingly, selecting 1 of those Pages volition start the channel creation process. 

If you lot are signed into to a greater extent than than 1 Google account, you lot volition run into your other Google concern human relationship emails listed nether "Other Accounts".

Note: you lot tin also run into all your channels together with Google+ Pages at www.google.com/channel_switcher

Creator Studio together with the Gear Icon



The 2 other options you'll run into inward the card are "Creator Studio" together with a gear icon. 

Creator Studio leads to the channel dashboard (www.youtube.com/dashboard), where you lot volition honour an overview for your channel, together with links to creator tools, including your Video Manager, comments, messages, analytics, video editor together with more.

The gear icon links to your Youtube settings (www.youtube.com/account).

I'll hash out both inward to a greater extent than exceptional below.

Quick link to your connected Google+ Profile or Page

You tin throttle straight to the Google+ Profile or Google+ Page connected to your channel yesteryear exactly clicking your channel icon a instant time. 

Creator Studio: Dashboard,Video Manager, Comments, Analytics together with Creator tools


If you lot practise together with upload videos to Youtube the biggest modify to navigation is the disappearance of the direct link to your Video Manager. Now your Video Manager together with other creator tools tin hold upwards constitute inward the novel "Creator Studio".

Click your channel icon inward the upper correct corner, together with select "Creator Studio". That volition pick out you lot to your YouTube Dashboard (www.youtube.com/dashboard).

Dashboard widgets

You tin add together widgets to your Dashboard to exhibit recent stats, uploads together with comments.



Hover your cursor over the widget together with you'll run into a grid you lot tin catch to reposition it on the Dashboard. Some widgets also take keep a gear icon - click it to modify the settings for that widget.

Learn to a greater extent than virtually the Creator Dashboard inward the YouTube Help Center.

From the left card you lot tin navigate to all the Creator Studio tools you lot postulate to teach by your channel together with videos.

I've included the direct links below, which you lot may desire to bookmark to straight see the tools you lot move most frequently.

Video Manager: videos, alive events, tags together with playlists

The Video Manager menu leads to:

Learn to a greater extent than virtually your Video Manager, Live events, playlists, together with search history inward the YouTube Help Center.



Community : comments, messages, contributed subtitles

The Community card leads to:
Learn to a greater extent than virtually comments, private messages together with contributing subtitles inward the YouTube Help Center.


Channel: monetization, uploads, advanced settings
Learn to a greater extent than virtually your channel features, advanced channel settings, upload defaults, InVideo programming, Fan Finder program together with monetization inward the YouTube Help Center.


Analytics: stats together with reports

YouTube Analytics (www.youtube.com/analytics) render detailed stats virtually your channel's traffic, viewers, appointment together with more.


 Create : tools for content creation

Learn to a greater extent than about the Audio Library together with Video Editor in the YouTube Help Center.

Youtube concern human relationship settings



To teach by the settings for your Youtube account, click your avatar inward the upper correct corner, together with therefore click the gear icon. that volition accept you lot straight to your concern human relationship settings overview (www.youtube.com/account).


  • Name of your channel (with a link to edit on Google+)
  • Advanced link: concern human relationship information, set a default channel, delete your channel, add together a password to your Google+ Page-linked channel (www.youtube.com/account_advanced)
  • Add or take away managers (if your channel is connected to a Google+ Page)
  • View additional features: channel condition together with available features (www.youtube.com/features)
  • See all your channels or practise a novel channel (www.youtube.com/channel_switcher)

Connected accounts (www.youtube.com/account_sharing)


  • Connect your Facebook Profile or Twitter account
  • Set which populace activity volition hold upwards shared to Facebook and Twitter
  • Manage "feed settings on your channel": ready which of your activities are shown every bit populace "Recent Activity" on your channel.

  • Set your Likes together with Subscriptions to private
  • Google Ad Settings
  • Allow solely your contacts to ship you lot messages (doesn't apply to novel Messages)


  • Set your e-mail notification preferences for your subscriptions
  • Set your e-mail notification preferences for activities on your channel (comments, video uploads, comments)
  • Set your e-mail notification preferences for YouTube newsletters

Set default preferences for video playback quality, annotations together with captions.

Connected TVs (www.youtube.com/pair)


Pair your smart tv or video game console amongst your YouTube channel to play videos on your TV.



Other channel settings

You tin honour settings for monetization, upload defaults, InVideo Programing together with your advanced channel settings yesteryear clicking your avatar inward the upper correct corner, clicking Creator Studio, together with therefore navigating to your "Channel" settings (www.youtube.com/features).

My Channel: View together with teach by your channel layout



If your channel doesn't take keep a custom URL, you lot may take keep problem navigating to your ain channel. Fortunately at that spot is a link inward the left card - the Guide - to "My Channel" which volition accept you lot there.


Once you lot are on your channel you lot tin add together channel fine art to the header, edit your "Channel navigation" to modify your channel layout or ready which actions shows upwards inward your Recent Activity Feed, or navigate to your Channel settings.



Click the pencil icons to edit your channel's appearance



Playlists, Likes, Watch Later, together with Viewing History


 Viewing Playlists, Favorites and Likes

You tin sentiment your Playlists from anywhere on YouTube yesteryear expanding the left navigation Guide. Your playlists (including your "Favorites' together with "Liked videos" playlists) volition hold upwards listed nether the Playlists heading.

Managing Playlists together with Likes

You tin teach by a specific playlist yesteryear clicking it's mention on the Guide. 

If you lot desire to manage all your playlists you lot tin practise therefore yesteryear clicking on your avatar inward the upper correct corner together with selecting "Creator Studio", together with therefore clicking "Video Manager" inward the left menu. You volition together with therefore run into links to "Playlists" together with "Likes" inward the left card (see above).

Watch Later together with Viewing History

There are links to your Watch Later listing together with viewing History at the top of the left Guide.
Learn to a greater extent than virtually your watch subsequently playlist together with viewing history inward the YouTube Help Center





Subscriptions


The Guide also lets you lot easily sentiment together with teach by your subscriptions.

My Subscriptions: sentiment all activity

At the top of the card is a link to My Subscriptions (www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions). Click that to sentiment a feed of activity from all of your subscriptions.

Individual Subscriptions

Under the Subscriptions heading is a listing of all your private subscriptions or subscription collections. Click those to navigate to a specific channel you lot take keep subscribed to.

Manage Subscriptions

At the bottom of the menu, click Manage subscriptions (https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager) to teach by all your subscriptions, modify your settings or practise collections. 


Help I'm Still Lost!


If you lot take keep questions, outset cheque the YouTube Help Center.