YouTube Content Calendar
A publishing schedule that spaces uploads instead of clustering them.
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Overview
About this tool
Turns a cadence — so many long-form videos and Shorts a week — into a dated calendar with slots spread evenly through each week and your content pillars rotated through them, so no theme gets neglected and no week gets front-loaded.
Instructions
How to use it
Set a start date and how much you can realistically publish. The calendar begins on the Monday of that week and runs for as many weeks as you ask for, up to a year.
Spacing beats timing
The advice to post at 5pm on a Saturday comes from aggregate data that says nothing about your audience — and YouTube surfaces videos over weeks, not hours, so the exact minute matters far less than on a feed-based platform. What does hold is rhythm: a channel that publishes on a predictable spacing gets browsed and suggested more than one that drops three videos on a Sunday and then goes quiet for a fortnight.
Pillars stop the drift
Listing three to five recurring themes and rotating through them is what keeps a channel from becoming whatever you felt like making that week. Each slot gets the next pillar in turn, so the balance holds across the whole run.
Questions
Frequently asked
Why does long-form land on a Thursday?
A weekly upload placed late in the week has the whole weekend to accumulate its first-48-hours signal, which is the window YouTube leans on hardest when deciding how far to push a video. Move it if your analytics say otherwise — your data beats the default.
What time zone are the times in?
Your channel’s local time — the calendar is a plan for you, not a scheduling API. Enter the times as you would set them in YouTube Studio.
Can I export it?
Copy the table straight into a spreadsheet or your project tool. Every row carries its full date, so it pastes cleanly.
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