The Community Tab on YouTube. The Ultimate Guide for 2024!

What is the YouTube community tab? How to enable it? What are community posts, and how to create them? Jan from @SogehtYouTube gives answers in this video!

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00:00 Intro
00:30 How to enable community tab
01:11 How to create community posts
01:53 Different types&use cases of community posts
03:08 How to analyze the performance of community posts

To get access to the YouTube Community Tab, you need 1000 subscribers. After reaching the threshold, it usually takes one or two weeks for the community tab to appear on your YouTube channel.

With the Community Tab, you can create community posts with text, images, animated gifs, polls, or links to other videos on YouTube.

Subscribers can see community posts in their subscription feed.

To create a YouTube Community post on your computer or smartphone, go to your YouTube channel, and find the tab "Community.”

Then you can create a post and add either a poll, an image, or a video to it.

If you want to greet fans or other creators, you can use mentions by writing an @ symbol and the channel’s name.

When you're done, click on "Post.” You can also plan your community post for a specific date.
If you have channel memberships, you can create posts only for members of a specific level.
Tips on how to use the YouTube Community Tab most effectively.

Different types of posts work better than others. Posts, for example, are usually the best, with the most interaction followed by gifs, followed by images, followed by just plain text.

Posts and videos usually get the least interaction. If you have no idea what to use the Community tab for, here are some suggestions. Use them for:

- announcements
- behind-the-scenes material
- ask your audience for suggestions
- do audience research, find what viewers like
- share personal images and more about your personal life than in the videos
- create a poll that is published a couple of hours before a video

To analyze the performance of your post, go into your YouTube Analytics, click on Engagement and scroll a little down to see your top posts.

Here you can see the impressions and the likes for your posts.

What worked? What didn't? What can you learn from past posts for your future posts?

An important thing is not to forget to use the community post regularly. As YouTube is a video platform, we are all naturally focused on creating videos, and therefore we can forget to use the community posts rather quickly.

So try to make sure to include them in your editorial calendar to not forget about creating community posts.

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[CreativeThinking]

Very useful. Thanks for sharing. Have a great day.👍126 likes

[jannahlyon]

Thanks for this info :) I saw this in the Youtube help center "Starting October 12 2021, we’re lowering the eligibility for Community posts from channels with 1, 000 subscribers to all channels with over 500 subscribers." if so, it is even more exciting and accessible to us little youtubers!! Thanks again.

[Netison]

Hey, now you just need 500 subscribers for community tab to enable

[granflamenco]

It is interesting that this channel does not use community features for nearly two years.

[entertainmentforyou]

I'm trying to figure out why I can't see other YouTubers community post like yours for example with my android tablet but I can see others community post on my phone! I can't find the answer to fix or enable it! All my favorite channels I can't keep up-to-date with! Do you Sir know the Answer to this problem?

[roundfred]

If I add to many hashtags and delete them do YouTube still ignore me?

[FlyingRedTailHawk]

What about more engagement for other channels?

[spkeyt]

I have 54 subs can i make a community post or not?

[mauxxello]

Thank you for telling us but you need to have 1000 subscribers or more to be able to do it 😅