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How to set up vidrev and what each message means. Questions about data and permissions: Trust and data.
Get started
- Sign in at app.vidrev.app with the link we email you (or your password, or Google).
- The setup guide opens on its own: connect your YouTube channel, then create your first automation.
- Optional: connect your CRM sub-account and Stripe, so opt-ins, buyers and revenue show up per video and keyword.
Connect your YouTube channel
- Settings, YouTube channel, Connect.
- Pick the Google account that owns the channel and allow the permission on Google's screen. Keep the comment permission ticked.
- The page shows how long connecting has taken; you can close it, connecting goes on by itself.
- "The comment permission was unticked": connect again and keep it ticked.
- "This Google account has no channel": sign in with the Google account that owns the channel (brand accounts: choose the channel on Google's list).
- "Already connected to another account": a channel belongs to one vidrev account. Disconnect it there first.
Create an automation (video, keyword, link)
- Automations, New automation.
- Choose a video, or all your videos.
- Add a keyword viewers comment (for example GUIDE) and the page it should lead to.
- Write or approve the reply template. The tracked link is added for you.
- A keyword comment is found within minutes after a new upload, and within about 15 minutes on older videos.
Approve replies
- To Approve lists every draft reply, with the comment and the video.
- Edit if you like, then Approve. Only approved replies are posted, one by one, from your channel.
- "YouTube's daily limit": the reply waits and goes out first after the daily reset, or post it yourself with one click.
- "Monthly plan limit reached": replies wait until the next month, or post them yourself.
- "Comments are turned off on this video" or "the comment was deleted": nothing to do, the reply is skipped.
- "YouTube did not confirm the reply": check the video and post it yourself if it is missing.
Connect your CRM sub-account
- From the app: Settings, Connections, the CRM page, Connect. Choose one sub-account (not the agency).
- Or install the app from the Marketplace listing. Signed in to vidrev in the same browser: it connects at once. Not signed in: sign in in the same browser within 24 hours and press "Connect to this account".
- vidrev then creates the field "vidrev tracking id" and starts reading new contacts, won opportunities and payments every few minutes.
- One vidrev account connects one sub-account. For another sub-account, use a different vidrev account, or disconnect the current one first.
- "Install the app on one sub-account": an agency-level install is not supported; install it on the sub-account.
- "This install link has expired": install the app again from your CRM.
- An email or status saying the CRM refused the connection: connect again; nothing recorded is lost.
Tracked links and your own domain
- Every reply carries a short tracked link. By default it runs on the shared link domain.
- Settings, Linked domain: add a subdomain of a domain you own (for example go.yourdomain.com) and add the one CNAME record it shows. Within minutes the page says Live and new replies use it.
- Settings, Linked domain also shows the vidrev.js snippet: put it on your opt-in page so a sign-up is matched to the comment and the video.
Reports
- Reports shows clicks, subscribers, buyers and revenue per video and keyword. Numbers come only from real events, never estimates.
- People shows each person's path: comment, reply, click, opt-in, purchase.
Disconnect or delete
- YouTube: Settings, YouTube channel, Disconnect. Access is revoked and the channel's YouTube data is deleted at once.
- CRM: Settings, the CRM page, Disconnect, or uninstall the app in your CRM. In Beast Mode, delete the vidrev contacts first with the button shown there.
- Stripe: Settings, Stripe, Disconnect.
- Everything: Settings, Account, Delete my account. See Data deletion for what is deleted.
- Subscription: Settings, Billing and cancel, or the manage link in your receipt email.
Something went wrong
- "That did not go through" with a reference: go back and try once more. If it repeats, send us the reference; it points to the exact log line.
- A page that says how long something has run (connecting, an audit) can be closed; the work goes on by itself and stops on its own if it takes too long.
Still stuck?
Write to me@vidrev.app. We answer within one working day.