If you are a video creator, you need to create effective videos and tweak them for social media platforms and search engines to make them viral. However, if your videos are not performing well, then probably you’re not using or you don’t know the right tools.
Here are some of the best Chrome extensions for YouTube creators that you need to know about.
1. Create and Edit videos in Browser
WeVideo
This is a very popular online video editor. This tool makes it easy to create and edit videos professionally and makes them accessible from anywhere. It has the following features for video creators.
Features turn-by-turn collaborative editing from any place on any device.
Allows to record and add a voice-over to the video clip using webcam and mic.
It has different editing modes for beginners and professionals namely Storyboard and Advanced Timeline.
Supports connecting to cloud services and taking media files directly from Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Google Drive, Dailymotion, etc.
You publish your videos on YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Dailymotion, etc. or share them on social media sites.
2. Record and Convert Videos
Clipchamp
This Chrome extension is a reliable video converter and compressor. It compresses videos without affecting their quality and works using a simple drag and drop interface. Here are some features of Clipchamp:
Allows you to create a short link to request and collect videos from anyone, which can be queued and uploaded directly to your YouTube channel or Google Drive.
Its webcam recorder records the video in 360p, 480p, and 720p resolutions right from your browser.
Nimbus Screenshot & Screen Video Recorder
A simple but powerful screenshot taker for everyone, this extension helps capture web pages in a clean and user-friendly interface. It also records videos from your screen and has other features like:
Add and edit objects like stickers and text boxes in the screenshot.
Captures whole or part of a web page and records a video from a tab or screen.
Lets you edit and manipulate the screenshot, and save it in JPG and PNG formats.
Allows saving to various third-party tools like Nimbus Note, Slack and Google Drive.
Screencastify
Screencastify packs in various features to record screenshots and screencasts. All features, however, are not included in its lite version like it only records 20 min. videos. It’s simple to use like Nimbus, and has the following features:
Records a specific tab in your browser or the whole computer screen.
Creates WEBM and VP8 videos with audio and lets you save it locally.
Allows saving the files to Google Drive and publishing directly to YouTube.
3. Upload and Publish Videos
YouTube Uploader for Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive.
It allows you to upload and publish video files from Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive to YouTube directly. It works locally in your browser, and offers the following features:
Allows uploading video files in batch mode without using YouTube’s web interface.
Supports numerous video formats like WebM, MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, MPEG4, MPEGPS, FLV and 3GPP.
4. Manage Channels and Optimize Videos
TubeBuddy
TubeBuddy is a very effective and popular YouTube tool that works as a channel manager and a toolkit for optimizing videos, making it an absolute must for YouTube creators. It has many useful features.
Provides find/replace and bulk update features to update the descriptions, social profiles, hyperlinks and references on the videos.
Helps generate customized, professional-looking thumbnails with the help of screenshots and branding or text layers for the videos.
Allows you to engage and collaborate with new subscribers and fans efficiently as well as export the list of your subscribers and their profiles to a CSV file.
Generates a detailed analysis of your competitors’ views, subscribers, uploads per day and engagement channels — all in CSV format.
vidIQ Vision
This extension delivers a comprehensive optimization report showing key insights of everything the top creators do to drive traffic. It helps you boost subscriber engagement and create viral videos for them. And it gives creators access to statistics more than just total views of a video, and more such features like:
“vidIQ Score” ranks every video, which helps to evaluate the probability of a video being endorsed in related search or recommended videos.
Average watch time helps you understand the quality of your videos and how well they keep viewers engaged.
Velocity (views per hour) tells about the videos gaining viral traction and their acceleration in popularity, making it clear which are the rocking videos.
Social media statistics show the number of likes, shares, comments, and tweets for your videos gathered from various social channels including Reddit.
VISO Catalyst
A platform that helps you to discover the popular videos, their optimization strategies and analytics — all to guide you about creating awesome, viral-worthy videos. This platform is, unfortunately, only available for partners of BBTV or an associated network.
Title optimizer ensures the videos possess concise, searchable titles.
Thumbnail editor creates beautiful thumbnails using backgrounds, graphics, and text for videos and allows downloading them for posting to social media.
Intelligent keyword recommendations help you improve titles, descriptions, and tags for your videos to make them as user-friendly and searchable as possible.
5. Video Details and Statistics
Heartbeat
Heartbeat is the tool that allows creators to connect to the YouTube community as well as to track and view subscriber growth. It also displays others details like video age, count, channel as well as monetization owner and social media stats for your videos.
Offers YouTube real-time chat system with the ability to create chat rooms for people with similar interests to hold discussions and share videos.
Provides the creators with channel analytics having metrics like earnings, viewership and subscriber growth of their channel and the competition.
Its tag finder allows creators to tag their videos with trending, SEO-friendly keywords, which help the people to find preferred or related content faster.
Social Blade
This extension helps YouTube creators to track user statistics for YouTube as well as social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter, and others. Social Blade makes user analytics, growth, and trends simple to understand for creators, and includes features like:
Provides social analytics for any content, creator, brand or live streamer.
Provides user and trend statistics for any video or channel on YouTube.
Provides financial stats including estimated monthly and yearly earnings along with future projections in numerical format as well as easy-to-read graphs.
Make your research on Google Chrome Store and you will find more extensions. You can test the popular extensions to decide which is the best for your YouTube video channel.