Previously I've explained that RSS was invented to make this simpler: you can get a summary of changes on all interesting websites in the one place (called a feed-reader), rather than having to regularly visit each site individually.
Video is increasingly popular: many bloggers are putting videos in their posts or their posts into videos, and some have even abandoned their blogs and are only publishing new content to a YouTube channel.
I've just found that it's very easy to subscribe to a YouTube user or channel in RSS / Google reader, meaning you can see a list of new videos from you reader, without having to go to the channel in YouTube.
Follow these steps:
- Find the channel or person you want to subscribe to in YouTube
- Right-click on their name or icon, and copy the URL / web-address / link location (the precise name depends on the browser you are using - you want the place that clicking the link takes you to, not the location of the image-file used to make the link)
- Go into your feed-reader, and subscribe to that link (in Google Reader, this is done using a red button near top left corner of the screen labelled "subscribe" - just click it, paste in the link and click the Add button).
The link will be something like
http://www.youtube.com/user/MariahIsTheQueen or http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX9_dIohJBxlizx14AozTngIf it has something else after the name (eg ?feature=watch), then delete that part before you subscribe you just need a link saying whether it points to a user or channel, and the name of that user channel.
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| Example of subscribing to a channel about rocket-science in YouTube |
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