When is the best time to upload your videos to YouTube?

Have you ever wondered if there’s a certain day or time that’s best to be uploading your videos to YouTube?  I have.  Someone once told me that a very popular YouTuber always uploaded his videos on Friday evening because that way most of his subscribers would likely see it in it’s first 24 hours since most people weren’t at school or work over that period.  And it’s important to get as many viewers as possible in the first 24 hours so you can get on the most viewed of the day list (although you actually can stay on the list for up to 48 hours from when your video is uploaded).

So I decided to do some research and found out that the University of Calgary (where I’m from) actually did a study on that, as well as other facts about ways to optimize how you go about uploading your videos to YouTube, and I often refer to it, as described by ReelSEO – here.

In regards to time and day specifically, they basically suggest Thursday afternoons around 2pm EST is likely the best possible time.   I tried waiting for that time with my Vumber video and it’s hard to say how much of an impact the timing had, but the video did get about 10,000 views in it’s first month so it was pretty successful.

Here’s today’s vlog on this topic:

What do you think? Do you think it makes any difference when you upload your videos?  Have you noticed any difference uploading one day over another?