5 extensions very useful for YouTube users (For Google Chrome)

Using YouTube, both as a content creator, or as just a web viewer is a wonderful experience. However, we sometimes feel the need for something that may be lacking on the platform, so there are additional applications, extensions and programs that enhance our experience with the video portal. And in this article we'll list some extensions to improve your YouTube experience, for video creators and for those who watch only.

1) Tubebuddy

It's an extension geared more towards video creators that will help in post production and upload. So if you're already tired of wasting time, creating tags, sharing your videos on other social networks, and other more common post-upload tasks, I recommend that you know about this extension. The tool adds a layer of amazing functionality right on top of YouTube's website. With it:

1. You can perform bulk updates to your videos such as adding annotations or cards to all your videos with just a few clicks
2. You can perform Find/Replace on your videos just as if you were using a word processor.
3. You can generate professional custom thumbnails using screenshots and branding/text layers.
4. You can engage with your audience quicker and more efficiently.
5. You can export your list of subscribers and their social profiles.
6. You can get details analysis of competitor channels.
7. You can promote your new upload across all other videos. The list goes on and on.

For more information click here or go directly to the installation page.

2) VidIQ

If you think YouTube analytics is enough for you to analyze video data, it's because you still do not know that VIDIQ exists. With it your experience with analytics goes much further.

Although it is one that does not directly bring you views, it discover what makes a video go viral, and then you can optimize your videos to get more views!

With metrics that go beyond YouTube Analytics, vidIQ Vision delivers a comprehensive optimization report card for any YouTube video (not just yours) - right on your browser!

Whether you’re a content creator, marketing manager or YouTube civilian, you’ve undoubtedly wondered:

1. What makes Related Videos related?
2. How do videos get ranked in Search?
3. Where do Recommended Videos come from?
4. What does good YouTube SEO look like?
5. How does Social Media fit into audience development?
6. We provide answers and optimization data that can dramatically improve your videos’ performance, subscriber engagement, and promotion opportunities.

3) Enhancer for YouTube

This extension is more aimed at those who only like to spend hours watching the platform. If you are one of them you can enjoy much more from the video site using this tool. It has a set of highly customizable and easy-to-use features that allow you to:

1. Control the volume level and playback speed with the mouse wheel
2. Remove annotations (automatically or on demand)
3. Play videos automatically in 4K, HD, or any other preferred format
4. Repeat videos (in part or all)
5. Use custom themes
6. Use a larger video player
7. Fix the video player
8. Run your own actions using JavaScript

4) Subtitles for YouTube

Use this extension to add drag and drop subtitles to any youtube video.
This extension lets you add subtitles to any video you are watching on YouTube. Even that it is not yours. Just drag and drop .SRT file or zipped .SRT file for your movie on to the upload-box and the subtitles will start showing up.

The extension also supports searching and using subtitles directly from sites like OpenSubtitles.org and Amara.org. Now you can search in ALL LANGUAGES.

Ideal for vídeos that do not have subtitles,

Note: If you already had opened a YouTube page before installing the extension you will not see extension load on that page. Just refresh the page once after installation is complete.

Very useful Keyboard Shortcuts:

'V' - Enable/Disable subtitles
'G' - Precede subtitles relative to video
'H' - Delay subtitles relative to video
'Q' - Decrease subtitles size
'W' - Increase subtitles size

5) Audio Only YouTube

"Audio only YouTube" chrome extension enables you to disable only video on YouTube which saves internet usage more than 50% when you want to listen songs on YouTube. You can enable/disable it by just clicking on the icon shown in the extension bar. But this does not only save your data on the internet, if you can not listen to music on YouTube because you have a slow connection, this tool also improves the performance of your player since not loading the videos (audio only) the audio loads much faster.

That's it guys, these were the tools I wanted to share with you. If you liked the article do not forget to share that family group on Facebook, so they can know that they can make the most of the YouTube platform with these extensions.