How To Group Subscriptions On Youtube

A few years ago we used to have "Manage Subscriptions" features for grouping youtube channels into collections and groups. But youtube has removed these features. If you have not used youtube before 2015 then you are not familiar with the concept. So what used to happen is: Suppose you have subscripted to 100 youtube channels, and you have categories them into collections/groups. So that you can go to your favorite collection and see their content. But Youtube intentionally removed these features so that the new content creators will also get exposure. So, nowadays you will get some random videos and some subscripted channel videos on the youtube homepage.

Youtube does not allow you to follow those channels that you are already following. So, the more time you spend on youtube you will similar new content based on your interest and some others as well.

Nowadays those who have subscribed to hundreds, two hundred channels and finding specific videos, or specific content creators is difficult and I am coming here to solve that problem with few steps.

Using Web Browser

For this, you just have to install a browser extension and the below steps work for every popular browser.

1 Goto this link: PocketTube for Chrome, PocketTube for Firefox, PocketTube for Safari

For Demonstration, I am using the Chrome Browser. Works similar to another browser as well.

2 Click on "Add to Chrome".Then a popup will appear asking like: Add "PocketTube: Youtube Subscription Manager"? Just click on "Add extension" pockettube-manager

Now, you will get "pockettube" extension shown on the top right corner as shown below.

⚠ After installing, please reload all YouTube tabs for the extension to take effect.

3 Then you will get the SUBSCRIPTION GROUPS in Youtube right side menu as shown below

4 Just write Group name and click on "➕".

You can clearly see that I have added the "News" group. Similarly created other collection like programming, songs soon

manage-youtube-subscriptions

5 Click any of your subscribed channels then click on the hamburger in the right middle corner. Here I have selected the "Traversary Media" channel. (first). Then click on the hamburger (second) and then click on "programming".Here, Traversy Media belongs to "Programming" so, I have kept Traversy Media under the programming category.

subscriptions-list

6 Successfully added Channel inside collection. Here, we can clearly see that the "Programming" collection, channel "Traversy Media" is present. We can do similar for other channels and assign the collection to them.

added-channel-to-collection

You can do the same in other browsers as well.Link for installing pocket tube in a different web browser are as follow:

For Firefox: click here

For Safari: click here

For Opera: click here

Note that this chrome extension is not in sponsor and own this app and extension.

Using Mobile Application

PocketTube is easily available for android as well as iOS.

PocketTube for Android
PocketTube for iOS

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. What is PocketTube?

PocketTube is one of many apps for managing youtube subscriptions into groups and folders or collections. It has the following features:

Freely Available and small size less than 1 Mb
Helps to create Youtube Channel Groups by Topic.
Helps grouping youtube subscriptions/channels into folders/groups/collections. There may be few collections for one youtube subscription/channel.
Create/delete/edit group list.
Helps to create a desired icon for youtube collections. It has provided a few icons and also you can upload other icons from your computer.
Automatically sync your Android, iOS, Firefox drives, or Chrome profile collections.
Easily available on the left pane of the youtube home page and other pages.
Can be easily sorted by alphabetical order (a-z), subscription, activity, and also has custom features.
Hide's viewed YouTube video and Youtube feed page search.
Display last youtube videos by collections.. Use YouTube playlists to play the entire video by collections.
Auto-sync your collections

Few Limitations

The filter is very slow.
Do not let to choose which youtube account to use.

These brilliant apps and chrome extensions will sure work in the limitations in the future.