SIGNAL for YouTube
Schedule, measure and predict your YouTube content
Everything YouTube exposes, in the same calendar and the same reports as your other ten networks — plus a performance score on every draft before you publish it.
What you can publish
Every YouTube format, scheduled
- Long-form video with resumable upload
- Shorts
- Title, description, tags and custom thumbnail
- Scheduled premiere and visibility
- Playlist assignment
What you can measure
The metrics that actually decide things
- Views, watch time and average view duration
- Audience retention curve
- Impressions and click-through rate
- Traffic sources including search terms and suggested video
- Subscribers gained and lost per video
- Likes, comments and shares
- Revenue where the channel is monetised
Something worth knowing about YouTube
CTR and retention are one problem
A high click-through rate with poor retention means the thumbnail wrote a cheque the video did not cash. Optimising either in isolation usually makes the other worse.
Inbox
YouTube conversations, in the same place as the rest
No more checking six apps to find the one comment that needed answering.
Comments on videos and ShortsComment moderation queue
Worth being upfront about
The YouTube Data API is quota-managed. Very large channels syncing full history may see the initial import spread over several hours; we show progress rather than a spinner.
Also works with
Ten more networks in the same calendar
Questions
YouTube, specifically
Can I schedule YouTube posts with SIGNAL?
Yes. Long-form video with resumable upload, Shorts, Title, description, tags and custom thumbnail and more, all from the same calendar as your other networks, with a live preview of exactly how the post will render.
What YouTube metrics can I track?
Views, watch time and average view duration, Audience retention curve, Impressions and click-through rate, Traffic sources including search terms and suggested video, Subscribers gained and lost per video, and more — all normalised so you can compare them fairly against your other networks.
Is YouTube available on the free plan?
Yes. YouTube is available on the free plan, with a limit of 20 scheduled posts per month.
Do you scrape YouTube?
No. Everything runs through the official YouTube API under its terms of service. That limits what we can offer in a few places, and we mark those limits in the interface rather than filling the gap with estimates.
Can I predict how a YouTube post will perform?
Yes — that is the Pre-Flight Predictor. It scores each draft 0–100 with a predicted reach band and the three changes most likely to improve it, fitted to your own YouTube history once you have 50 posts.