When you’ve spent hours recording, editing and uploading your video, it’s often a stretch to invest more energy into creating a detailed YouTube description. But what if I told you you could streamline this process and save time every time you upload a new video? For this article, I have prepared a YouTube description template for you as well as explanations on how to use it.

It’s important to know why video descriptions matter. You’ve probably seen plenty of big YouTubers leave their descriptions empty. That’s why many small YouTubers do the same and write little to nothing into theirs.

While this might be fine when you already have a big subscriber base and get plenty of views, an empty description is usually a wasted opportunity for small and medium-sized YouTubers. A good video description can help you and your viewers in quite a few ways:

When you’re starting out on YouTube, getting your first subscribers can take a lot of time and effort. In fact, even if you’ve been uploading videos for months (or a few years!), you might still feel like you’re getting nowhere. But what’s a good growth rate? How long does it take the average YouTuber to reach 1,000 subscribers, for example?