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User Guide

A plain-English walkthrough of every part of the tool — what each button does and when to use it.

1 Getting started

When you first log in, a welcome popup walks you through the basics. You can reopen it anytime by clicking the ? button in the bottom-left corner.

At a high level, using the tool looks like this:

  1. Subscribe to a paid slot.
  2. Connect your YouTube channel.
  3. Sync your channel so your videos show up.
  4. Publish a video so your feed has something in it.
  5. Paste your feed URL into MSN Partner Hub.
  6. Turn on auto-publish so new videos go out on their own.

3 Billing & slots

One slot = one channel. If you want to manage three YouTube channels through the tool, you need three slots. Each slot is billed monthly.

Subscribe

First-time button. Takes you to a secure Stripe checkout page where you enter your card and start your subscription. After checkout, you're brought back and your slot count shows 1 paid / 1 total.

Add another slot

Shown once you're already subscribed. Adds one more slot so you can connect another channel.

Heads up: one click + one confirmation charges your card immediately. You'll see a warning message on screen and a confirm dialog with the exact new monthly total before anything is charged. Read it before clicking OK.

Manage Billing

Opens your Stripe billing portal in the same tab. From there you can:

  • Update your credit card
  • See past invoices and download receipts
  • View your upcoming renewal date and amount

Cancel Subscription & Remove Channel

This button lives inside each channel's Feed & Sync tab (not in the sidebar). See section 8.

4 Schedule tab

Where you control when videos go live on MSN. Open any channel, click the Schedule tab.

Recently Published

Videos that are live on MSN right now, most recent first.

Up Next

Videos that are scheduled to publish automatically on upcoming dates.

Drip feed

Your automation setting. When it's on, the tool will automatically schedule and publish new YouTube videos on a cadence you choose — you don't have to touch it.

  • Enable drip feed — master on/off.
  • Include shorts — also drip-feed your Shorts, not just long-form.
  • Publish delay — how long after a video goes live on YouTube it should publish on MSN (usually a few days, to let YouTube's own algorithm breathe first).
  • Frequency — how many videos per day you want published.
Recommendation: turn on drip feed once you're set up and let it run. You'll only need to come back when you want to publish something immediately or check your feed health.

5 Catalog tab

Every video from your channel lives here. Use this tab when you want to add, edit, or publish a specific video.

Paste a YouTube video URL

Input at the top. Paste a link to a specific YouTube video and click Import to pull just that one video in. Useful when you want to add something from another channel or a video not in your main catalog.

Video statuses

  • Unscheduled — in your catalog, not yet set to publish.
  • Scheduled — will publish automatically at a future date.
  • Published — live in your MSN feed right now.
  • Rejected — MSN rejected this video. You can edit and resubmit or leave it out.

Per-video buttons

  • Edit — change the title, description, or scheduled date for a video before it goes to MSN.
  • AI — rewrite the title/description with AI to better fit MSN's audience.
  • Publish Now — push a video to your live feed immediately.

Each video also shows whether its MP4 is ready. Your feed is not ready for MSN until at least one video's MP4 is fully downloaded (look for the green "Ready" marker).

6 Feed & Sync tab

This tab has the feed URLs you paste into MSN, and the Sync Now button.

Your MRSS Feed URLs

Two URLs — one for long-form videos, one for Shorts. Copy these and paste them into MSN Partner Hub when you're ready to go live on MSN.

  • Copy URL — copies the feed URL to your clipboard.
  • Preview — opens the raw feed in a new tab so you can see what MSN sees.
  • Validate — checks your feed against MSN's requirements and flags any issues before MSN reviews it.
Before you paste into MSN: publish at least one video from the Catalog tab and wait for its MP4 to show as Ready. MSN rejects empty or incomplete feeds.

Sync Now

Pulls the latest videos from YouTube into your catalog. Do this first thing after connecting a new channel, and anytime you want to refresh.

Danger Zone (at the bottom)

Where the red buttons live. See section 8 for what each one does.

7 Logs tab

A history of what the tool has done for this channel — syncs, publishes, video imports, errors. Useful if a video didn't go out when you expected, or you want to confirm something happened. There's no action here, it's just a log.

8 Removing a channel

In any channel, go to the Feed & Sync tab and scroll to the Danger Zone at the bottom.

Cancel Subscription & Remove Channel

This is what you'll see if you're a paying customer and you admin this channel. Clicking it:

  • Deletes the channel from the tool (videos and feed go away).
  • Reduces your paid slot count by one — so your monthly bill goes down.
  • Applies a prorated credit to your next invoice for the time left in your current billing cycle.

If this is your last slot, the wording changes — your subscription cancels at the end of your billing cycle (you keep access until then), and the channel is deleted right away.

This can't be undone. Once a channel is removed, you'd need to reconnect it and resync to get it back — and you'd use a new slot.

9 Your account

Your login details are managed by your admin. If you need a password reset or want to change your email, contact your admin or contact@nobe.ca.

Logout is in the top-right user menu.

10 Help

If anything goes wrong with your feed, a video won't publish, or you just have a question, email us at contact@nobe.ca. We'll get back to you as soon as possible.