YouTube comment automation means never having to type the same response twice.

If you’re seeing similar comments and questions that can be answered the same way across your videos, you’re not alone. While it’s a good problem to have because it means your audience is engaging, manually replying to the same questions in the same way is an annoying time suck.

That’s why we created YouTube Canned Responses. Canned Responses lets you quickly respond to comments with pre-drafted messages to save time and simplify audience engagement.

But YouTube comment automation isn’t just a time saver, it can also be a money maker when paired with a tool like AsqMe (partner link). More on that in a moment.

How TubeBuddy Canned Responses Work

With TubeBuddy Canned Responses you can create as many comment replies as you like and easily call them up when responding to comments. Since TubeBuddy lives inside YouTube Studio, just click the TB drop-down below a comment, choose the appropriate Canned Response, and boom, comment addressed. 

You can use Canned Responses to recommend a related video for more detail, you can answer frequently asked questions, share a link to your merch shop or, if you want to get really clever, you can turn your comments into a money making lead magnet.

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Monetizing YouTube Comments with Canned Responses and AsqMe

AsqMe is a unique platform that helps creators manage and monetize audience Q&A. As a universal inbox across all your channels and platforms, AsqMe not only captures leads for you, AsqMe will help you answer viewer questions fast. You can connect your YouTube channel and AsqMe will use your content to pre-write FirstDraft answers for you, including cued up video clips to close the loop and get your audience back into your content on YouTube.

You can directly monetize viewer questions by inviting viewers to pay for detailed and/or expedited responses. You can also indirectly monetize by using AsqMe to help build your community outside of the YouTube platform.

AsqMe captures a name and email address with every question. This allows creators to download leads from AsqMe at any time and, for example, import them into your email platform of choice. If you are looking to generate leads, own your audience outside of YouTube and to build out your email list, Canned Responses that direct audience questions to your AsqMe link are a great way to do just that.

YouTube Comment Automation with Canned Responses

  1. Use the bar on the left side to select “Setup” and “Canned Responses”. From this page you can click “+Add Canned Response” in the top right and draft your response.


  2. Write the response message you’d like to use. Canned responses can include a variable to make it more personalized. If you use “{N}” in your response, it will include the person’s channel name.  If your reply includes a link, be sure to communicate the purpose of it. For instance: “Hi {N}! Thank you so much for the question. Please click my AsqMe link for a direct, faster answer [Your AsqMe Link]”.  

  3. When you want to use the AsqMe canned response to a viewer’s question, simply click the TubeBuddy icon next to the comment and select the canned response you want to use.

This will autofill the reply with your canned response. From there you can edit the response further, or just hit reply to post it.

Using AsqMe as a Lead Magnet

With your AsqMe link, you can answer questions for free or you can directly monetize your Q&A by inviting viewers to pay for a detailed response. In either case, you’re capturing lead details that you can use to own your audience. 

Whenever you want to get your leads from AsqMe, just sign in to AsqMe, go to the Settings Page and find the options to “Download Leads”. You can download all your leads or just the new ones since your last download.

TubeBuddy Tutorial: Generate Leads with Canned Responses + AsqMe

To use AsqMe, creators simply share their AsqMe link to all their social profiles and wherever they post content, including in YouTube video descriptions and comments. After you sign up for AsqMe, you can direct audience members to your AsqMe link to answer their questions. This way you can provide a personalized, private, and more thorough answer than you could have given through YouTube’s comments section – and you will get your audience members’ contact information!

  1. Create your Free AsqMe account (partner link). Fill out your profile and get your unique AsqMe link.
  2. Sign in to TubeBuddy, and set up a canned response.
  3. For the response, you can say something like: “Hi {N}! Thank you so much for the question. Please click my AsqMe link for a direct, faster answer [Your AsqMe Link]”. 
  4. When viewers ask you questions in your comment section, use the canned response to direct them to your AsqMe link. 
  5. Answer their questions through AsqMe, and whenever you are ready, use AsqMe’s Download Leads feature on the Settings page to get the contact information of everyone who has asked you a question.

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