Free YouTube Planner Template: Vidcrest Lite
Vidcrest Lite is a free, Excel-format YouTube planner template for creators who want a simple system for choosing and producing videos. It is a smaller edition of the full Vidcrest YouTube Channel Planner, with the same design and formulas.
What Is Included
- Idea Bank (30 ideas): score search demand, effort and channel fit from 1 to 5 for an automatic 0-100 score, A-D grade and rank.
- Production Pipeline (25 videos): seven stages from Idea to Published, with script, filming, edit and thumbnail deadlines counted back from each publish date, plus Overdue and Due soon flags and progress bars.
- Lite Dashboard: ideas in the bank, videos in production, published count, overdue count, next upload, average idea score, next six uploads, a pipeline-by-stage chart and your five best ideas to make next.
- Settings: channel name, scoring weights, deadline offsets and dropdown lists.
What the Full Version Adds
The full Vidcrest YouTube Channel Planner adds a complete dashboard with six KPI tiles, goal bars and four growth charts, an Upload Calendar, a Title & Thumbnail A/B Lab, a 12-point SEO Checklist, a Video Analytics log with RPM and views-vs-average, Monthly Stats, a Brand Deals tracker, an Income & Expenses ledger with profit, much larger capacity (200 ideas and 150 videos) and a printable user guide.
How to Use It
- Type your channel name on Settings and, if you like, adjust the scoring weights and deadline offsets.
- Add ideas to the Idea Bank and score each one; the best ideas rise to the top of the dashboard.
- Copy your top ideas into the Pipeline, give each a publish date and update the stage as you work.
- Open the dashboard at the start of each session to see what is due and what is overdue.
File Format
Excel-format .xlsx for Microsoft Excel; tested in LibreOffice Calc; built with standard functions that also work when you open it in Google Sheets.
How to Download
Downloading is free with a Taskdale account. Free downloads are limited to 3 per day. Personal use only; please do not share or resell the file.
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