YouTube hashtag generator

A hashtag is a word with # in front, like #sourdough. On YouTube you add it to the title or description of a video or Short. Viewers can select it to find other videos that use the same hashtag.

These rules come from YouTube Help.

YouTube shows at most three by the title, and it picks which three. So add only hashtags you are happy to see there.

Three to five is enough for most videos. That is our advice, not a YouTube rule. The only hard limit is 60, and a list anywhere near that reads like spam.

Tags are a separate keyword field in YouTube Studio, and this tool makes hashtags, not tags. YouTube says tags help mainly when your topic is often misspelled. It says the title, thumbnail, and description matter more for discovery.

So write those first. Then add a few hashtags to the description to label the topic.

• Name the topic, not the trend. #SourdoughForBeginners tells YouTube and viewers more than #viral.
• Use one broad hashtag for the subject and one or two narrow ones for the angle.
• Capitalize each word in a long hashtag. #VideoEditingTips is easier to read than #videoeditingtips.
• Write a new set for each video, so the hashtags describe that video and not the whole channel.
• Pick the language your viewers search in. The generator offers more than 70.

Paste your hashtags at the end of the description. The YouTube description generator drafts the rest of it.