How do you get a community tab on youtube

What Is the Community Tab?

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How do you add Community on YouTube?
How do you get a Community tab on YouTube without 1k subs?
Where is the Community button on YouTube?

The YouTube Community Tab is a feature designed to help creators engage with their audience outside of the videos that they upload to their channel. Types of Community Posts include polls, text-based posts and images.

Best Practices

Use Polls

Polls are one of the most popular types of community posts. And for good reason: polls are an easy way to get your community more involved with your channel.

For example, lots of YouTubers use polls to ask their subscribers what types of content they want to see next:

Polls don’t necessarily have to be about your channel. You can also use polls as a fun way to start a discussion or to give your fans a voice on a topic related to your channel. Here’s a great example:

Get Informal

For many creators, the only time viewers see them is in front of the camera (usually accompanied by lights, makeup, and a carefully-selected outfit).

Community Posts allow you to show a more informal side of your life.

For example, Rudy Mancuso uses Community Posts to give viewers a sneak peak into “real life” outside of YouTube:

Promotion

The Community Tab is a great place to promote older videos, merch or products that you sell. While you do want to balance value with promotion, promoting things in community posts can be much easier (and more effective) than doing so in a video.

For example, John Sonmez regularly shares his old videos in his Community posts:

And Sean from ThinkMedia uses posts to promote his webinars and online courses:

Pre-Promotion

Before the Community Tab, there was no easy way to get your fans excited about an upcoming video.

In fact, many creators would build anticipation for their videos on other platforms, like Twitter and Facebook.

Thanks to the Community Tab, you can pre-promote your videos on YouTube. And when it comes to pre-promotion, you have two options:

Exclusive Content

Like any platform, it’s important to give people a reason to follow your updates in your Community Tab. If you simply repost content from Instagram or Twitter, people aren’t going to have a reason to check out what’s going on in your Community Tab.

Do your best to offer exclusive content that your fans can’t find anywhere else. For example, Lewis Howes posts images that you can only find on his Community Tab:

Shout Outs

Use Community Posts to show appreciation to people that support your channel (either financially through something like Patreon or people that are super active members of your community):

Cross-Promotion and Collabs

You can use the Community Tab to send your fans to content on other channels that you find interesting.

Also, if you do a collab with another channel, a Community Post is a great way to let your fans know about it:

How do you add Community on YouTube?

To create a Community post:.

At the top of the page, select Create. Create post..

In the box at the top: Type a message to create a text post or add text to an image, GIF, or video post. Choose to create a video , poll , or image post..

Select Post..

How do you get a Community tab on YouTube without 1k subs?

Its not possible to get Community Tab below 10 subscribers. Creators with over 1,000 subscribers have access to Community posts. It will take up to 1 week to see the Community tab after passing 1,000 subscribers. The Community tab may also be available to other channels as Youtube is continuesly testing this feature.

Where is the Community button on YouTube?

The Community tab replaces the Discussion tab, which has been an optional discussion area for YouTube channels. To find out if you have the new Community tab, visit your channel and look below your channel art. If you have the Community tab, you'll see it in place of the Discussion tab.