YouTube has put many restrictions over the past 2 years as far as the number of Messages, Share Video and Comments you can send in a given day. So it is more important than ever to make those sends count.

We have added a new feature which will allow you to filter users by the last time they logged in - to make sure this is a current user, or by the number of uploaded videos - to make sure you don't auto-subscribe to a channel with 0 videos, or by the number of Friends - so you can connect with 'popular' users. This feature has been added to Messenging, Share a Video, Subscribe to Channels and Send Comments to Users. 

Version 2.7.0.0 has a host of requested changes along with an emergency fix. If your request didn't get in this version, email us at support@TubeToolbox.com and we will add it to the next version or at least add it to the potential list. We only have so much time to work on changes.

Emergency Fix: Sharing Videos - YouTube changed their code so that in order to share a video with more than 9 users, you must enter a CAPTCHA (security code). Plus, you cannot send to more than 5 people at a time who are not already your friend. Sounds simple but this was a PAIN to figure out because I had to sit here and do trial and error. But, I think it's all good now. Basically instead of sending to 10 people at a time, we send to 5 at a time. But the total that you can send within an hour won't change. 

New Feature: Option to skip existing users when gathering - There is now a checkbox when doing Targeted Search and Gather From Page(s) that allows you to skip people who you have already gathered. This will make sure that you can keep all new lists with "clean" users. Keep in mind that even if you gather existing users, you can filter them out when selecting your Recipeints.

Fixed: Auto-Subscribe - People were having issues with auto-subscribe and I think it's fixed now. If not, the bulk subscribe feature reports problems back up to us (like Messages and Friends requests) so if it isn't working, we'll be able to fix it faster next time.

New Feature - Auto-Refresh page after sending - For the uber-lazy (i.e. David), I added a feature so that after doing bulk-sends, it will refresh your browser. So for example after sending bulk friend requests, it will auto-refresh and show you the results. Wow, I am just realizing that I added a whole feature so you wouldn't have to click a single refresh button. =P

Fixed: Adding #UN# when sharing videos - You are now stopped before sharing a video with "#UN#". The share a video feature sends to 5 people at a time so you can't stick in a single name. I verified that it is working with comments and messages.

Fixed: Attaching a video to a comment - YouTube took out the ability to attach a video to a comment when you post a comment on someone's profile. Not sure why. But, we had to take it out of Tube Toolbox because you can't do it in YouTube. If they ever add it back, so will we.

Skipped: Three things requested which will probably make the next version is a fix to the Auto-Accept Friend Requests feature. It is broken so you gotta do it yourself for now. I also want to add a message-rotator to comments and share a video like Messages currently has. Finally, a way to clear out your sent box and inbox automatically.

As always, send feedback if things are broken and we'll do our best to get out a quick fix. Thanks for your patience on this release.

-Phil 

Speed, Speed, Speed.
With the new Targeted Search feature, our users are gathering TONS of youtube users (hundreds of thousands) which slowed down many areas of Tube Toolbox. We have taken measures to speed things up but you'll still need to tell us if any specific areas are still too slow for you. If anything takes more than 1 full minute to load, that is considered too slow. You should be able to load a list of 100,000 people in about 30 seconds now - with the previous version, it could take serveral HOURS.

New Feature: Filter out Group
This new feature allows you to filter out users from a gathered group. For example, if you gather 2,000 but want to remove any of them that are already your Friend (to make sure you don't send messages to existing friends), now you can do it! In fact, you can use the Manage List feature to create a whole "Do Not Include" group and anytime you gather a new list, you can run this feature to filter out anyone from your Do Not Include List. 

New Feature: Share Video with All Contacts 
Currently, you must share videos to 10 users at a time. Within a regular Internet Browser, you can select to share a video with [All Contacts] so we added that feature into Tube Toolbox as well.

 Upgrade Option 
Starting with the next version of Tube Toolbox, you will be able to skip the auto-upgrades if you want as requested by users. But do so at your own risk :)

Non-US
I think the log in process was broken again for people outside the US who were new users. It *should* be fixed now. PLEASE let us know if you have any log in problems. Also, we changed the way messages are sent so I think people outside the US might have more success sending messages and sharing videos now.

Hide Main Screen
When doing bulk actions you may have noticed that when you click "Hide in System Tray", the main window was minimized and still sat on your desktop. If you accidentally clicked on it, it would get displayed and you couldn't get rid of it. Instead of being minimized, it is now completely hidden so this annoying problem is gone!

Other than that, just some minor bug fixes and updates needed because of YouTube changes.

Happy Marketing and Good Luck with your YouTube Channels,
Phil

Long time no talk everyone! We've finally got Tube Toolbox into a comfortable spot where we've added requested features over the past year and gotten it very stable. The release of Version 2.5 brings a few new changes and a few fixes.

New Features

* Spider Search Unfiltered: In previous versions of Tube Toolbox, if you did not select any filters on the Spider Search, it would skip people who did not have public profiles posted. Now, it gathers everyone. Which means if you simply want to gather mass amounts of users to send to, this is the way to do it.

Fixes

*  Gathering from Comment Lists : In the current version, it would only gather the first page. The new version will be able to gather from multiple pages when looking at video comments. 

* Bulk Comments : Fixed problem with "Comment Pending Approval" result.

* Non-USA Users: We have tried one more time to make sure everyone can log in all over the world. If your Log In fails, it will ask you to select a country and try to log in again for that country. Keep your fingers crossed, this is one feature that we could not test ourselves.

* Bulk Share Videos: Was sometimes putting 2 usernames together which caused an error. This has been fixed. 

Tube Toolbox has once again been a pioneer in YouTube Friend Adder realm. We are the first software to allow TARGETED GATHERING. What this means is, Tube Toolbox will allow you to only gather Males or Females, or people from a certain country, or a certain age, or include/exclude based on keywords or even limit by the last time the user logged in. No other adder offers anything close!

 To access this feature, click "Targeted Spider Search" from the "Gathering Users / Videos" panel on the left hand side of the main window.

If you have any suggestions about how you'd like to see the Spider Search improved, please let us know. And if you have any problems, email us with your exact search criteria and starting page.

Thanks!
-Phil

Good News / Bad News

Good News: Friend Requests are working again . YouTube had changed how Friend Requests work and we needed an emergency fix put in place.

Bad News: The change that YouTube made has also removed the feature where you can add a Friend to a certain group. Now, you can only add Friends and they will show up in your main Contacts lists - you can't specify a group. Why would YouTube remove a feature that was working fine and people liked? Beats me

Other News: You will see your personal 'Start Page' show up when you log in now. This was supposed to show up in the last version but apparently it didn't quite make it in. If you don't like this start page, there is a button to get rid of it in the top right hand corner of the page.

Other Other News: We are working on some new Gathering Features that will allow even more ways of gathering users/videos by 'crawling' YouTube's site like a spider web. These will be in our next planned release (Tuesday, August 19th)

Tube Toolbox Version 2.3 is here!

New Features Include:

* Share Video Updates - We were having problems when people were sending to hundreds or thousands of people at once. We found that you can only send to about 10 users at once. So to get around this program, Tube Toolbox now sends in groups of 10. For example, if you want to Share a Video with 37 people, Tube Toolbox will share with 10 users, then share with 10 more users, then share with 10 more users, then send to the final 7 users. Inbetween each send, you can set your Send Delay to ensure you don't break YouTube's Terms of Use.

* Apply Changes Button - Added to the Select Recipients form so that when you are using the 3rd option (send to users within X days, etc), the list will not repopulate unless you tell it to.

Bug Fixes Include:

* Synchronization - When you synchronize your Friends / Videos or Favorites, it would require you to close and re-open Tube Toolbox for the changes to be seen. Now, the changes show up immediately.

* Gathering Subscribers - We discovered that just like Search Results can't be gathered past page 20 in YouTube, when you are gathering from a list of subscribers, you can only gather a max of 100 pages. Tube Toolbox would gather in and endless loop but now it will exit once YouTube stops giving new users.

Other Changes Include:

* Tube Toolbox Friend Requests - When you launch the new version of Tube Toolbox, it will ask you if you want to subscribe or be a friend with our YouTube Channel (TubeToolboxDotCom). In the previous version, we accidentally made this automatic. So, if you used version 2.2 of Tube Toolbox, you are likely subscribed to TubeToolboxDotCom and also a friend with TubeToolboxDotCom. Please remove these if you wish.

Targeting your audience just got easier with the release of Tube Toolbox 2.1.

We added 9 new ways to gather users and videos. First off, we gave you a quick way to gather from search results directly in the Tube Toolbox interface. Next, we gave you an option to gather SOME of the people on a particular page if you don't want to gather all of them. Simply check the users you want and pick which page you want them put in to. Finally, we added a way to gather from 7 areas of any particular User's profile: Friends, Subscribers, Subscriptions, Comments, Videos, Favorites and Bulletins.

We also did a complete run through and tested ALL features in Tube Toolbox which we haven't tested recently to make sure that everything is working and up to date. We found a bunch of little issues that were fixed so version 2.1.0.0 is even more solid than 2.0.0.0.

A change to YouTube's website temporarily broke sending Friend Requests which was fixed. Thanks to those who informed us and remember to always notify us via our Forum.

We also added a couple shortcut keys, for example "Ctrl+Y" will take you to YouTube.com and "Ctrl+H" will take you to your YouTube Home Page.