YouTube
Email to YouTube,
the easy way
ForwardThis is the simple tool that connects your email to YouTube. Forward any email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Nothing to download, nothing to set up. Works with dozens of your other apps too.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect YouTube
Create a free account and connect YouTube. It takes about 30 seconds, and you only do it once.
Forward an email
Forward any email to your ForwardThis address along with your instructions. One email can ask for several things at once.
Done.
ForwardThis replies when it's done, with a short summary and links to what it made - and an undo button if something doesn't look right.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: Sponsor pack - can you send your numbers?
Send me the channel's subscribers and total views, and how the shed video has done.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Before we put the proposal together, could you send over your current channel figures and the performance of a recent video?
Read the channel's stats
12,480 subscribers · 1.24M views · 96 videos
Read "Build a shed in a weekend"
38,102 views · 1,940 likes · 212 comments
The answer comes straight back in your inbox, and nothing gets edited.
Some other examples
- “What have I uploaded in the last month?”
- “How many views has the workshop tour got now?”
- “How many subscribers am I on?”
Everything ForwardThis can do in YouTube
Read a report
Read channel stats
Find pages
Find videos on the channel
Read a record
Read a video
Link records
Add a video to a playlist
Update CRM record
Edit a video's title, description or tags
Try it with a real email.
Forward any work email to the address below and see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
Why you need ForwardThis
Email is messy, every message asking for something different. It means constantly leaving your inbox and juggling tabs. ForwardThis skips all of that: forward an email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Compatible with every email provider, and it works across the apps you’re already using.
Questions
- How do I send an email to YouTube?
- Send or forward an email to your ForwardThis address asking for what you want to know, like "how did the shed video do?". It reads the numbers off the channel you connected and replies with the answer, so you can send them on without opening the studio. The first time, you'll need a free account with YouTube connected, which takes about 30 seconds - that's the entire YouTube email integration.
- Can it upload a video or reply to comments?
- No. Publishing to an audience is not something an email should be able to set off, so uploads, comments and live settings are all out. It reads three things: how the channel is doing, what you've put out recently, and the numbers on one video you name by title.
- Which channel does it read?
- The channel belonging to the YouTube account you connected, and only that one. Connect a different account and it reads that channel instead.
- Can it put the numbers somewhere other than a reply?
- Yes, if you say so in the same line. The numbers can land as a row on a Google Sheet or a message in a Slack channel, because ForwardThis works across your other apps in one instruction rather than one app at a time.
- Is there anything to undo?
- No, because nothing changes. Every YouTube request here reads and reports, so the worst outcome is an answer you didn't want, sitting in your own inbox.