CollabPals
Grow your YouTube channel with real creators, not bots
AI & Machine Learning·Social·Marketing
What is CollabPals?
CollabPals is a YouTube growth platform where real creators promote each other. More than 378,000 creators have joined since 2023 and completed over 52,000 shoutouts.
Shoutouts: a creator in your niche mentions your channel in a YouTube Post, a video comment or a video description, so their audience finds you.
Credits: earn them free by doing shoutouts for other creators, or pick a plan.
Growth Studio: AI help for titles, descriptions, a channel audit and video ideas taken from videos overperforming in your niche.
Thumbnail Tester: real creators vote on which thumbnail they would click.
AI video editor: cut mistakes and long pauses, add captions, and turn long videos into Shorts.
Community Watch: real creators watch your Shorts, and you earn credits by watching theirs.
No bots, no fake subscribers, and nothing is posted to your channel for you. Free to start, paid plans from $19 a month. Brands can also run shoutout campaigns with niche-matched creators.
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What other founders did to grow.
2722 dispatches from hundreds of founders, pulled from the week's best podcasts.
I had like the best customer support call the other day because their marketing team was not upset that their knowledge base wasn't getting indexed they were upset that it was outperforming their dub dub dub like people were getting to the documentation
Public docs outranking your marketing site is a feature, not a bug
A public knowledge base ranks for long-tail 'does tool X do Y' queries that marketing sites rarely answer in depth. Prospects researching a purchase land in the docs, evaluate the product, and convert before ever requesting a demo. One customer's docs outranked their own marketing site — exactly because docs win the specific commercial-intent queries copy can't.
We would get the same questions via email every single day... one day I was like you know what, I'm just going to make a video that explains this because I've had to copy and paste the macro basically, I'm telling the same people over and over the same thing. So I got up a whiteboard and I just explained swimming terminology.
Whiteboard Wednesday started as support-email leverage, not a YouTube strategy
Whiteboard Wednesday started as pure leverage: instead of copy-pasting the same answer to seven users, film once and link it. The whole loop — concept, film, edit, blog, email — was a single-day Wednesday project for years before they ever hired help. Even at 7 views, the time math beat writing 7 emails. Compounded into millions of views.
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