Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
If you've been around YouTube for any amount of time and watched a video to completion, you've probably seen an end screen.
It's common practice for YouTubers to add end screens to videos in order to increase the number of subscribers or drive traffic to their other content.
It turns out though, that even though I have over 240 published YouTube videos on this channel, I had never used an end screen. This ends (get it?) today. This was an improvement idea in our latest Stateless Code retrospective, and it gave me an idea for a whole new video series titled "How the Sausage is Made" where I make videos about my video making experience.
In this video we add a new end screen to a published video and then import the newly added end screen into a second video.
Here are a couple of strategies for what to include in your end screens:
- If you refer to other videos or playlists in your video, add them to the end screen of that video so the viewers can watch that one next
- If you have a video that is getting high traffic, you can use that to provide exposure to one of your better, but unappreciated videos.
This video covers:
00:00:10 Introduction to the "How the Sausage is Made" series
00:01:28 Overview of end screens
00:02:14 Select a video for the end screen
00:03:02 Navigate to the end screen editor
00:04:05 Review the section of the video eligible for the end screen
00:04:43 Select the type of end screen and choose the video and playlist
00:06:05 Demonstrate ability to adjust timing of elements in the end screen
00:06:41 Save the end screen and test the video on YouTube
00:08:38 How to import an end screen from another video
00:11:10 Prioritizing the video backlog
00:11:40 One suggested approach: adding other videos you referenced in your current video
#screencast #howthesausageismade #endscreen #youtube #youtuber #tutorials
See other related StatelessCode videos:
- Why Stateless Code youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9kkbu1kLUeO5Htd6ZHJVZO1hrAGkFS1z
- Why Leave Mistakes in the Videos youtu.be/-9bgFkLaWXY
Resources that we relied upon for this solution:
- YouTube Support: Add end screens to videos support.google.com/youtube/answer/6388789?hl=en
This video is CC0 - No rights reserved. (YouTube doesn't allow this option when publishing.) All code is released under the UNLICENSE. Stateless Code denies the concept of "intellectual property". Copying is not stealing.
If you've been around YouTube for any amount of time and watched a video to completion, you've probably seen an end screen.
It's common practice for YouTubers to add end screens to videos in order to increase the number of subscribers or drive traffic to their other content.
It turns out though, that even though I have over 240 published YouTube videos on this channel, I had never used an end screen. This ends (get it?) today. This was an improvement idea in our latest Stateless Code retrospective, and it gave me an idea for a whole new video series titled "How the Sausage is Made" where I make videos about my video making experience.
In this video we add a new end screen to a published video and then import the newly added end screen into a second video.
Here are a couple of strategies for what to include in your end screens:
- If you refer to other videos or playlists in your video, add them to the end screen of that video so the viewers can watch that one next
- If you have a video that is getting high traffic, you can use that to provide exposure to one of your better, but unappreciated videos.
This video covers:
00:00:10 Introduction to the "How the Sausage is Made" series
00:01:28 Overview of end screens
00:02:14 Select a video for the end screen
00:03:02 Navigate to the end screen editor
00:04:05 Review the section of the video eligible for the end screen
00:04:43 Select the type of end screen and choose the video and playlist
00:06:05 Demonstrate ability to adjust timing of elements in the end screen
00:06:41 Save the end screen and test the video on YouTube
00:08:38 How to import an end screen from another video
00:11:10 Prioritizing the video backlog
00:11:40 One suggested approach: adding other videos you referenced in your current video
#screencast #howthesausageismade #endscreen #youtube #youtuber #tutorials
See other related StatelessCode videos:
- Why Stateless Code youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9kkbu1kLUeO5Htd6ZHJVZO1hrAGkFS1z
- Why Leave Mistakes in the Videos youtu.be/-9bgFkLaWXY
Resources that we relied upon for this solution:
- YouTube Support: Add end screens to videos support.google.com/youtube/answer/6388789?hl=en
This video is CC0 - No rights reserved. (YouTube doesn't allow this option when publishing.) All code is released under the UNLICENSE. Stateless Code denies the concept of "intellectual property". Copying is not stealing.
