Just a quick ‘how to’ for subscribing to YouTube video tag feeds.

  1. Choose a tag to subscribe to, e.g. "Gilmore Girls"
  2. Use this format to create your custom tag feed: http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/your+tag.rss

    • use a + to combine words into a tag phrase
  3. Add the feed (http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/gilmore+girls.rss) to your RSS reader

*Note that YouTube tags seem to also encapsulate user profile names, so you could end up getting lots of irrelevant material, especially if it’s a single word not a phrase

e.g. I cannot subscribe to the word "Bones" for a blog I cover because there is a user with "bones" in his/her profile name and they post a lot of videos cluttering up the tag feed.

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