YouTube Posting Times for Global Audiences: USA & Europe Guide

When uploading videos for overseas audiences to YouTube, what should I do about the posting time?

When creating videos for overseas audiences on YouTube, setting the posting time is extremely important.

To get many people to watch videos created in English or other foreign languages, it is recommended to choose a posting time that matches your overseas audience.

Setting the posting time is crucial not only for YouTube channels run by individuals but also for channels operated for corporate marketing and branding purposes.

In this article, we will explain in detail the posting times for YouTube videos targeted at overseas audiences.

We will also explain the optimal posting time slots for each overseas region. Why not use this article as a reference to reach more overseas viewers with your YouTube channel?

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If you are making videos for overseas, Ondoku is recommended!

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[English Support] Why is the posting time for overseas YouTube videos important?

Setting the posting time is important to get your YouTube videos played by more overseas viewers.

By posting according to the time of overseas viewers, you can rapidly increase your view count and subscriber numbers.

Why does the posting time of overseas YouTube videos affect the view count?

The reason why posting time is important when uploading videos for overseas audiences to YouTube is that

"Getting many views immediately after posting"

is very important.

On YouTube, videos that are played many times immediately after being posted are more likely to appear in recommendations.

Since they appear on the app's top screen and in related videos, you will be able to continue growing the view count thereafter.

Post according to when overseas viewers watch YouTube

When do you usually watch YouTube?

It is probably

• After returning home at night
• During lunch breaks at work
• On weekends (Saturday/Sunday) and holidays

The same goes for overseas viewers.

Therefore, by posting videos during the times when overseas viewers often watch YouTube (active time periods), it is possible to boost the number of views immediately after posting.

Of course, since there are time differences with other countries, you need to set the optimal posting time for each target country or region.

Match the posting time to the lifestyle of viewers in each region.

This is the fundamental step for increasing views and subscribers for YouTube videos targeted overseas.

Note that overseas viewers have different daily rhythms by country

However, overseas viewers have different daily rhythms depending on their country or region.

When deciding on the posting time for overseas YouTube videos, it is important to research:

• Differences in work and school hours
• Differences in how holidays are spent and YouTube viewing habits

When making videos for the English-speaking world or other overseas regions, it is recommended to set the posting time after considering which country or region's viewers you are targeting.

Please use the points introduced in this article as a reference to set effective posting times.

Recommended YouTube posting time slots by overseas region

From here, we will specifically explain the recommended YouTube posting times for overseas videos by region.

Recommended YouTube posting time for the USA

Regarding YouTube posting times for the USA, you need to be careful about the time difference between the East Coast and the West Coast.

• US East Coast (New York, Washington D.C., etc.): 14 hours behind Japan time.
• US West Coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc.): 17 hours behind Japan time.

Thus, there is a 4-hour time difference within the continental United States.

The recommended posting time for YouTube videos for the USA is around 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM Japan time.

By posting in this time slot, you can ensure that viewers in the USA watch during the late afternoon to evening hours, when YouTube usage is highest.

Considering viewership across the entire US, it is a bit early for the West Coast, but around 8:00–9:00 AM is recommended.

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Recommended YouTube posting time for Europe

For YouTube videos for Europe, it is also important to decide the posting time by being conscious of the time differences of major countries.

• UK (London): 9 hours behind Japan time
• Germany, France (Berlin, Paris): 8 hours behind Japan time

The recommended posting time for YouTube videos for Europe is around 2:00 AM to 4:00 AM Japan time.

By uploading videos during this time slot, you can get them played during the hours after European viewers have returned home.

Since it is late at night in Japan, it is recommended to post using YouTube's scheduled posting feature.

Ondoku can, of course, read European languages such as French and German!

You can synthesize AI voices with very clear native pronunciation, so please try listening to the sample voices.

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For German pronunciation check and listening! Native pronunciation, listen to 24 speakers (trial listening) including women, men, and children

Here you can listen to German voices from Ondoku. Voices include women, men, and children. Please use them for narration, work training, presentations, learning, etc.

Recommended YouTube posting time for East Asia

When posting YouTube videos from Japan to East Asia or the Pacific region, the same posting times as Japan are fine.

• Korea: No time difference with Japan; same time slot
• Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore: 1 hour behind Japan time
• Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia: 2 hours behind Japan time
• Australia: 1 hour ahead of Japan time

As there is not much time difference with Japan, it is recommended to post between 7:00 PM and 9:00 PM Japan time.

Ondoku can read Asian languages such as Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian with native pronunciation!

Why not make YouTube videos for Asia using Ondoku?

Explaining how to use and set the scheduled posting feature for overseas!

It's impossible to post videos to YouTube in the middle of the night~

If you are posting videos to YouTube for overseas, scheduled posting is recommended!

Even for videos targeted overseas with time differences, you can post at the optimal time by utilizing the scheduled posting feature.

Basic steps for setting up scheduled posting

How to use YouTube's scheduled posting feature is very simple.

First, upload your video to YouTube.

Once the video upload begins, the posting details screen will open.

After configuring the posting settings, "Visibility" will be displayed at the end.

If you press "Schedule" here, you can set the posting time.

Set the date and time.

For example, if you want to publish a video at 7:00 PM on the US East Coast, set the scheduled post for 9:00 AM the following day Japan time.

Note that the time displayed here is Japan time (you can check by clicking "Time Zone").

Once the settings are complete, click the "Schedule" button to finish the reservation!

Now, the video will be automatically published at the specified posting time.

In this way, you can publish videos at the optimal time for overseas without worrying about time differences, so it is recommended to use the scheduled posting feature when uploading videos for overseas to YouTube.

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Setting thumbnails is also very important when making YouTube videos for overseas.

This article explains it in detail, so please take a look.

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Posting times and precautions to avoid for overseas uploads

When posting videos for overseas to YouTube, be careful of posting times you should avoid.

Depending on each country's culture or religion, there may be holidays where videos don't get many views even if posted.

What are the posting times that make it hard for overseas videos to be viewed?

There are also posting times to avoid when uploading YouTube videos for overseas.

In the USA, viewership decreases during weekday mornings local time (around 10:00 PM to 5:00 AM Japan time).

Since this is the time when Americans are at work or school, it is recommended to avoid this posting time.

In Europe as well, viewership is lower during weekday mornings local time (around 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM Japan time).

For videos targeted at East Asia or the Pacific region, it is recommended to avoid posting during Japan's daytime hours.

In this way, avoiding times when many people are at work or school and posting during the "golden time" from evening to night is the key to growing views for overseas YouTube videos.

Care is needed when posting videos during holidays or event periods. View counts may not grow.

When posting YouTube videos for overseas, attention to local holidays and cultural events is necessary.

While view counts often grow on days off from work or school, in the case of national or religious holidays, people might not watch even if you go through the trouble of posting.

In the USA, many people spend time with family around Thanksgiving (4th Thursday of November) and Christmas, so view counts often don't increase much.

The same applies to US Independence Day (July 4th).

In countries where many people attend church, view counts may not grow during the Christian Easter holiday.

Note that the date for Easter changes every year.

In Asian regions, there are days when viewers from Chinese-speaking regions decrease, such as January 1st (New Year's Day) and the Lunar New Year (Spring Festival).

The date for Lunar New Year (Spring Festival) also changes every year.

In this way, it is also important to decide the posting date according to each country's culture and religion.

Basic overseas settings to do along with posting time

For overseas YouTube videos, overseas language settings are important in addition to posting time.

Language settings are very important for overseas YouTube videos

For overseas YouTube videos, regional settings and language settings are as important as posting time.

The video's detailed settings page has a "Language" item.

By setting this item to "English" for English videos or "Korean" for Korean videos, it becomes easier to be recommended to viewers in those respective countries.

Furthermore, by setting the language in this item, YouTube's auto-generated subtitle feature becomes available.

Particularly if you set the language for English videos, the possibility of viewers of languages other than English watching with auto-translated subtitles increases, allowing you to further grow views and subscribers.

How to easily create narrations for overseas YouTube videos

To grow view counts for overseas YouTube videos, narration with native pronunciation is vital!

We will explain how to create narrations, which is as important as the posting time.

1. Create scripts for overseas using AI

First, create a script for your overseas YouTube video.

The method is simple.

Just write the script in Japanese and translate it with an AI service.

When using translation services, the AI translation staple DeepL is recommended for English and European or American languages.

It can perform multi-language AI translation for languages all over the world.

Depending on the language, there are services that can translate with expressions closer to native speakers than DeepL, such as "Papago" for Korean or "Baidu Translate" for Chinese.

Translating with generative AI services is also recommended

Using AI translation services is convenient, but

• ChatGPT
• Claude
• Gemini

using generative AI services like these is also recommended.

The usage is simple: once you have loaded the script file (text file, Word file, etc.),

Please translate this script into native expressions in [Language] (e.g., English)

just give that instruction.

You can get translations with even more natural, native-like expressions than specialized AI translation services.

AI transcription of Japanese videos -> AI translation is also recommended

If you already have a Japanese video and want to create a foreign language translated version, it is also recommended to create a foreign language script based on the audio of the Japanese video.

For translating video audio into a foreign language, the AI transcription service Mojiokoshi-san is recommended.

Just by uploading a Japanese video to Mojiokoshi-san, you can convert the video's audio into text.

After that, simply translate it using an AI translation service or generative AI service in the same way.

By using Mojiokoshi-san, you can also create subtitles from the video.

The video transcription method and subtitle creation method of Mojiokoshi-san are explained in this article.

Please take a look.

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2. Create narration from your overseas YouTube script with Ondoku

Once the script is ready, use the AI reading service Ondoku to create the narration.

Ondoku is easy to use.

After opening the Ondoku top page, paste your script text.

Next, select the language.

After selecting the language, choose the voice to be used for reading from options like female, male, etc.

You can listen to the voices for each language on this page, so please take a look!

[Ondoku] Listen to voice types and sample audio for supported languages

Here we introduce Ondoku's supported languages and sample audio.

You can also adjust the pitch and speed of the reading voice, but it is fine to leave it at default settings for your first time.

Settings complete!

Press the read button to start the reading.

The reading process is completed quickly.

The screen will switch, and the narration voice will be played back.

Check the content and, if there are no problems, download the MP3 file.

How to create English narrations for YouTube is also explained in this article.

Please take a look.

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3. Edit the overseas video and upload it to YouTube

Once the narration is finished, create the overseas video using video editing software.

After editing the video, upload it to your YouTube channel.

When uploading, the key points are to perform the following as explained in this article:

• Setting the scheduled posting time
• Setting the language

With this, you have successfully uploaded a YouTube video with overseas narration using the AI reading service Ondoku.

By using AI reading services, anyone can easily create overseas narrations with native pronunciation.

Why not try using Ondoku when you want to make videos in English or other foreign languages?

Why not set a posting time and boost your views for overseas YouTube videos?

As described, setting the posting time is extremely important when uploading videos for overseas to YouTube.

By using the scheduled posting feature effectively, you can rapidly increase the view count of your overseas videos.

Narration with native pronunciation is also important when making videos for overseas.

By using AI reading services, you can get more viewers to watch your videos.

If you want to increase YouTube views and subscribers, it is recommended to target viewers all over the world.

Why don't you also utilize the AI reading service Ondoku to create videos for overseas with native pronunciation?