1.
How to Use Subscriptions Effectively on
YouTube
Receive notifications via Email
Never miss a Video
Use RSS to subscribe for competitor monitoring
Alan Richardson
www.compendiumdev.co.uk

2.
How to Subscribe

3.
How to Receive Email Notifications
YouTube Settings for Notifications
https://www.youtube.com/account_notifications
Use the 'Channel Subscriptions'
Tick 'Occasionally notify me of new videos and activity from my
subscriptions'
choose the Notify method.
Email ‐ you'll be sent an email
Push ‐ notifications on mobile
Push & Email ‐ both

4.
How to subscribe and enable notifications for a
channel
I can enable notifications for each channel individually so that I
don't have 'occasional' notifications, I'm notified for every new
video release.

5.
Use Subscription Manager to enable notifications
I can do that with the 'Subscription Manager'. There is a link to this
on the notifications section.
https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager
And I can manage each channel notification here with the 'chiming
bell' icon.

6.
Enable Notifications From Each Channel
When on a channel
Use the 'chiming bell' icon to amend the notification settings.
I tend to set this everytime I subscribe to a channel.

7.
How to keep your subscriptions private
If you start using subscriptions a lot you'll probably want to keep
them private.
Use the YouTube Settings for Privacy
https://www.youtube.com/account_privacy
And Select 'Keep all my subscriptions private'

8.
How to add your subscriptions to RSS reader
From the Subscription Manager
https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager
scroll to the bottom and export your subscriptions to OPML
import OPML file to your RSS reader.
Subscribe via RSS and competitors don't know you are monitoring
them.

9.
Finding the RSS Feed for Any Channel
RSS feeds are available for every Channel of the format:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?
channel_id=INSERT_CHANNEL_ID_HERE
RSS Link
Sometimes YouTube has an rxx+xml link you can find in the
source, or your RSS NewsReader might be able to auto subscribe
from the URL of the channel.

10.
To Find Channel ID
view source
search for channelId and I'll see it in the meta data
or search for meta and one of the meta data tags will have it
or inspect the subscribe button and the channel id will be one
of the attributes

11.
Watch All This On YouTube
How to Subscribe to YouTube Channels to be notified when a
new video is released by email and RSS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrLndEy8jSk
How to monitor YouTube competitors and receive new video
notifications using RSS without subscribing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBU4ARDTkxk

12.
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