Turn Your Creator Spreadsheet Into A Working List

A .csv file up to 4 MB, or a link to a Google Sheet shared as anyone with the link. A list can hold up to 1,000 creators. If your file is larger than 4 MB, put it in a Google Sheet and paste the link instead, which is the route built for big files. Private sheets cannot be read, so either change the sharing setting or export as CSV.

No. Scout looks at the file and works out which column holds the creators, so you do not rename headers or rearrange columns first. It reads channel URLs, channel IDs, @handles and plain channel names, and one column can contain a mix of all four. Every other column you uploaded is kept and comes back attached to the matched channel.

They stay with the list. Your notes, tiers, account owners and anything else you had are matched to the right channel and sit alongside the data Scout adds, so you can filter on them and ask Scout questions about them. This is usually the reason people upload a list rather than search from scratch: the judgment already in that sheet is the part worth keeping.

One credit per matched channel. Scout validates the file and quotes an upper bound before anything is created or charged, including how many rows are blank and will be skipped, and how many channels it already has, which are not charged again. You can drag the row count down to run part of the file first. Pulling the results afterwards does not cost extra, because the list was paid for when it was processed.

They are listed individually with the reason, never quietly dropped, and they never hold up the rest of the list. A row comes back as not found, which usually means the channel was renamed or deleted, or as ambiguous, which means the name matches more than one channel and Scout shows you the candidates so you can pick. You always see the count of rows needing a decision next to the count that matched.

Scout pulls the twenty most recent videos for every channel on the list, including ones it already had, so subscriber counts, view averages and recent sponsors describe the channel today. That is the main reason to re-upload an old roster: a list built two years ago will contain channels that have since stopped posting or stopped taking sponsorships, and those show up straight away.

Yes, and it is one of the better uses for it. Once the list is matched you can ask Scout for channels similar to the ones on it, which uses creators you have already vetted as the starting point rather than a blank search. You can also rank the list against what you sell and cut the bottom of it in one pass.