Publishing calendar

What the calendar shows

Open Calendar in the sidebar. Each card is one upload: a channel, a day and a time. The label on the card updates by itself:

• Planned: only an idea so far.
• In production: the video is being prepared or rendered.
• Ready: the MP4 is rendered and waiting to be uploaded.
• Live: we found the video on your channel.
• Overdue: two days passed after the planned time and the video isn’t on your channel.

No channel yet? Paste its link or @handle right in the empty calendar, click Find channel, then Add channel.

Switch between Week and Month at the top. With several channels, pick which ones to show in the channel list on the right.

Upload rhythm

Every channel gets a suggested rhythm: how many long videos a week, on which days and at what time. It depends on the channel’s size and comes from how fast similar long-video channels grew. Channels under 1,000 subscribers get 3 a week, 1,000–10,000 get 2 a week, larger channels get 3 a week.

• Use this rhythm accepts the suggestion. The calendar then shows open slots on those days.
• Customize sets your own number of videos, days and time, then Save rhythm. Back to suggestion returns to the suggested one.
• The rhythm window also shows how many minutes a month the rhythm needs and how many your plan covers.

You can also open the rhythm from Channels.

The calendar also warns you, without blocking anything:

• A gap of more than a week between two uploads of a channel shows as a dashed line across those days, with Plan a video in the middle of it.
• Two videos on one channel on the same day split their views. The pair gets an orange frame and Move one? opens the second one so you can pick another day.
• Setting more than 4 videos a week shows a note: it rarely speeds growth for channels like yours.

Plan and schedule

• Click an empty part of a day to Plan a video: write the idea, pick the channel and time, then Add to calendar. The card stays Planned and costs nothing.
• On an open slot, Plan idea does the same for that slot’s channel and time.
• Make a video on an open slot, or Make this video on a planned card, opens the composer with that channel and day. The new video takes that place on the calendar.

The first time you open the calendar, short tips walk you through it. How it works shows them again.

• On a finished video’s page, Schedule picks the channel, day and time. It suggests the channel’s next open slot. Remove takes the date off.
• Not scheduled on the right lists videos without a date. Drag one onto a day.
• Drag a card to another day to move it. Click a card to change its date and time, or Remove from calendar. The video itself stays.

When a video goes live

You upload the video to YouTube yourself. After the planned time we check your channel’s latest uploads every few hours and match the video by its length, then by its title. When we find it, the card turns Live and shows its views after 24 hours and after 7 days.

If we can’t find it, open the card, paste the video link and click Mark as published.

Times use your time zone from Settings.

Want the week in your inbox? Turn on Weekly plan in Settings → Notifications: every Monday morning we email the videos planned for the week and the open slots in your rhythm.