This guide first ran in 2020, when a browser extension was the only practical way to see keyword data or compare your channel to anyone else's. Almost every entry on that original list has changed since. One app was...

The scripting advice that dominated YouTube in 2020 told you to open with a hook, cut to a logo sting, then spend half a minute introducing yourself before the content started. YouTube now measures exactly that stretch of your...

The audience question has been mandatory on every YouTube channel since January 2020, and it has only grown teeth since. The FTC rewrote the COPPA Rule in 2025, full compliance landed on April 22, 2026, and YouTube now runs...

Most advice about ranking on YouTube is a decade old and was never sourced. This guide sticks to what YouTube publishes about its own systems, adds the competitor research method that still works, and says plainly where a popular...

This post has been rewritten from the ground up. The tool the original version told you to check a song with has been dead since 2020, and three of the biggest changes in YouTube music since then had not...