Sending Friend Requests is a great way to get more people to view your YouTube Channel on a daily basis. Most people who accept your Friend Request (and even those who don't) will check out your Channel and view a video or two on your page (more if they like what they see). Sending Automated Friend Requests is a good way to gradually gain exposure over time but not a great way to gain Video Views in a short period of time. However, once you have amassed a great deal of Friends, you can send out Bulletins (messages) which get sent to ALL of your friends so eventually it will lead to a great way to reach many people at once. Automated Friend Requests are always recommended for everyone no matter what your goal is but if you are looking to promote your videos and increase video views in a quick period amount of time, it is probably best to dedicate most your time to other Tube Toolbox features see below.

Send mass-automated messages is great when you are promoting something outside of YouTube (your website for example). Messages are the only way to include a URL in any kind of contact with a user unless you embed it in your video for example. Messaging can be slow - YouTube only allows you to send out about 16 messages per hour. To get around this, Tube Toolbox allows you to add 'Proxy Accounts'. So you can have your regular account (for example "MyYTAccount"), then you can create more accounts in YouTube ("MyYTAccount2", "MyYTAccount3", "MyYTAccount4", etc) and Tube Toolbox will cycle through them sending messages. For each account created, it adds about 16 messages per hour. If you know that the list of people you have gathered is targeted to a group of people that will be interested in what you are selling/promoting then Messages are almost always worth your time. If you are sending messages to random people, then probably better to spend your time using another tool.

If you do not have a targeted audience, then Bulk User Comments are a great option. Comments are posted on user profiles where everyone else can see them (as opposed to Messages where only the person you send it to will see it). The downside is that you can't post URLs. You can get creative "Tube Toolbox dot com" instead of "TubeToolbox.com" but YouTube even blocks some of those variations so try them out before using Tube Toolbox to make sure that you aren't wasting the sends. With Comments, after every 5 or 6 comments, you will be asked to enter a Security Code (also known as CAPTCHA). Tube Toolbox gives you two options to bypass CAPTCHA. If you are at your computer, you can simply enter the Security Code or you can tell Tube Toolbox to wait 10 minutes for the code to go away and continue sending. Mass Comments are more like blind shots at a dartboard because you're not sure who is actually going to read them but they will remain on a User's Profile indefinitely which means you get exposure 24 hours per day for a long period of time. It also means that you might not want to write about time-sensitive items. If you post a comment about a "Brand New Video", someone might end up reading it a year later and the video is no longer new and perhaps not even on your account or relevant.

Many people use this to post text comments to popular videos on YouTube or videos that are similar to the ones that they are promoting. For example, if you are a rock band with similar music to Pearl Jam, you could gather all videos from a "Pear Jam" search and post a comment on all of them that says "If you like this kind of music, check out my profile - we have great similar stuff". Like comments on User Profiles, comments on Videos will last indefinitely so people could read them today or a year from now and they will not only be viewed by the people who made the video but by everyone who looks at the video. Another way to promote is to gather the Top Videos for the day on YouTube and keep posting on those because those are the videos that are getting the most view and most comment views. This will get random users however and not a targeted audience.

Believe it or not, this is another great way to increase subscribers, increase friends, increase views and gain exposure. All over YouTube, you see people posting "Sub4Sub", etc. This means that if you subscribe to someone's channel, they will subscribe to your channel. Doing bulk Subscriptions in Tube Toolbox will end up getting many people to subscribe back to you and take a look at your Channel. Plus, you are now associated with their account and show up in their list of Subscribers. This means that if someone is browsing their channel, your Channel, Image and Videos will show up and could spark someone's interested in you.

Sharing a video is the best way to promote a single video to many people at once. You can select one of your videos and send it to many people at once (not one at a time like other bulk features). The downside is that YouTube is not reliable. Even though you can share a video with 1,000's of people at once using the YouTube interface, if you try to do it, it will give you a message saying "Server Error" because YouTube could not handle the request (too big). So, we recommend sending to 100 people or less at a time. You will immediately see an increase in your video views for whichever video you are sharing.