first things first i am not an affiliate of either vidiq or tubebuddy very much on purpose you see every single video that i found on youtube of someone reviewing either one or the other or both of them compared competition was from someone who is looking to make money with their link for either of the tools and you know nate i just had to really give an extensive test and i wanted to give an honest unbiased review of these without having any sort of monetary incentive biasing my review one way or the other howdy howdy everyone nate here and before i say anything else i'm going to tell you exactly who should use these tools total beginners larger active channels with a lot of videos on their channel but not much in between you see both of these tools both tubebuddy and vidiq are set up as what i call youtube helper tools the goal is to help you understand your metrics and in all of their marketing they say get more views and more subscribers and grow your channel this video was a long time in the making guys because you know me i gave this a solid test so here's what i did i purchased the top individual tier of both tubebuddy and vid iq five months ago and started using them in my everyday normal experience on youtube when i was uploading videos when i was broadening youtube when i was planning videos every use case that i could think of i use them extensively one than the other than both at the same time and for each of them i went through every last feature and went through described the feature gave it a usefulness rating gave it a rating of what size of channel i think that might be targeted at as well as my individual thoughts on how useful that tool was and my experience with it so for this video rather than give a play-by-play comparison of both tools i'm going to give you what i consider the absolute strengths of both and the weaknesses of both as well as my specific recommendation for what you should do with both also i should say i am totally open to representatives from either one of these companies reaching out to me to clarify any points that i feel like i got wrong or to prove me irrevocably wrong if nate is totally off his rocker i don't think i am but i am open to it also i've never done this so early in the video before but if you wouldn't mind taking a moment to boop the like button on this video right now to appreciate yes the amount of research that went into this and also because you may or may not like what i'm about to say thank you guys okay first of all let's talk about what is great about both of these tools they are both very good at giving you access to data that is already available on youtube but making it easier to find whether that be channel lytics in the case of a tubebuddy or just a side-by-side comparison or search results a lot of different examples of like ratios so many things and both of these tools do very well at bringing it up and making it more easily more readily available the other thing i will say about both of these companies is from my interactions with them the creators the developers of both of these companies are great people and they're both have their top goal of helping you and i helping youtube creators to build their channels with that said let's get into the
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