15. Managing Comments

One of the fun things about marketing via YouTube is that you get to immediately see the comments and responses from people who view your videos. Although this can be fun, it isn’t always pleasant, which is why YouTube lets you manage these comments.

Enabling Comments—and Other User Response Features

Viewers can leave both text comments and video responses to your videos—if you let them. At your discretion, you can allow, disallow, or allow with prior approval either comments or video responses for any individual video you upload. (This means you can allow comments for one video and disallow comments for another.)

To control comments and video responses, click the down arrow next to your name at the top of any YouTube ...

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