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You can still click Subscriptions in the sidebar, and you can stay on top of subscriptions via email and push notifications, but there's an even better way:using RSS feeds .
Feed readers like Feedly offer various organization features that can help you stay on top of the latest videos from your favorite YouTube channels. It's easy to add any YouTube channel's feed to Feedly or any other RSS reader.
1. Use the Feedly search box. Type the name of the YouTube channel into the Feedly search. Follow the channel that appears in the result..
2. Import the YouTube OPML file into Feedly. YouTube offers an OPML file for all of your subscribed channels. Go to the Subscription Manager page of your YouTube account and click on Export Subscriptions button to download the OPML file.
3. Use individual feed channels. YouTube channels don't give you a direct feed button, but you can easily create your own if you want to add a specific channel to your newsreader instead of all your subscriptions. Just copy the channel ID from the YouTube URL and add it to this URL:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=CHANNELIDThe CHANNEL is the string in the URL after “/user/”. It can be a number or the name of the channel.
YouTube recommendations serve their purpose as well. The history of your watch influences YouTube to serve those recommendations. And you can easily discover the next great channel to subscribe to from here. Remember, you can also manage your YouTube recommendations.
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