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Social Media call-to-action templates?

Best Youtube/Facebook templates for the "like, subscribe, share" call to action? I thought everyone would have this done, but it seems hard to find that is quality and affordable (I'm not paying MotionVFX's outrageously exaggerated prices). Any suggestions?

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Ebeneezer Scrooge here!


Try Mixkit.co run by Envato for some completely free items.


The links on this page may be useful.


Links to Mixkit Social Media Templates


MotionArray also has some free effects.


Okay, great. I will be very interested in your opinion and critique.


https://fcpxtemplates.com/sdm_downloads/youtube-end-screen-guides/


Here's the deal:

This is a Title.


It has the four different elements of the end screen: Link, Subscribe, Video 1 and Video 2.


Each element can be activated or deactivated if not to used.


The guides are meant to place the element's locations with a"background" of some sort. Shapes can be filled, outlined or both — these are just guides to help you arrange your endscreen in YouTube's End Screen designer.


The Link and the Subscribe elements have a "Sub Card" area (to be used for aligning texts for those items... You can, like just about everything in this tool, leave them on or turn them off after you've placed your texts.


The boundaries of the elements locations are strictly enforced. However you drag around an element (with an OSC), you cannot drag it outside the boundaries set by YouTube.


You can color the area outside the elements boundary, and inside the elements boundary separately.


There is a built in Grid to help you with item placements, and/or, add to your end screen design. There is also a "margin tool" to help lining up outside element edges with repect to the "Bounds" of the layout region.


Here's an example:



The text elements in this example are NOT available with the YT End Screen guides... use the titles (and animation) of your choice.


The idea is to add this design to the end of your video, then in YouTube, use the areas to place the End Screen elements provided by YouTube.



Please let me know when you've downloaded it — I'll be removing it soon after.


Hope you find it useful!





I really am very slow on the uptake . . . why not simply search YouTube for green screen subscribe etc. clips?


YouTube. Subscribe Green Screen Clips

This is my version (art deco style):



just an idea for something different... I'm actually **extremely** burnt out seeing the "standard" Like-Subscribe-Share graphics "99%" of youtubers are using.


I think all of the graphics (shapes) I used in this can be found in "icon fonts".



A few moments after posting my last suggestion about YouTube, I had visions of Ben rolling around on the ground with his head in his hands as it occurred to me that all these templates were precisely what he didn't want . . . rather basic and crude.


I suspect Ben may be looking for something more up-market . . . .


Love the idea of starting from scratch, make them match the style of the video they're on. But then there's the marketing truth that familiar icons register more strongly with consumers. It's not about what I or your like, it's about marketing, what do consumers respond to? They're not always the same thing, unfortunately. But I may have an idea for a compromise. Thanks for the idea, Fox. Good to see south Louisiana still has some intelligent and creative talent here. Time to crack on with this.

I see there have been five downloads of my YouTube End Screen template... (don't worry - I don't track *who* downloads free templates.)


I've been "sitting on it" for over a year trying to decide if it's worth publishing commercially.


For those of you who have tried it out — any comments? Is it worth it? Is it junk? Please let me know. I can handle the truth.


TIA.

Fox

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[Remembering rowie302 (Rohan Marks) who passed away Nov 2024. A very enthusiastic Motion user and contributor here on ASC. https://fcp.cafe/news/20241120/ ]

Ian, that's a tad bit overkill. I haven't looked like that in 30 years. HA!

I must come clean . . . I posed for it.

Ben, would you also be interested in an End Screen Guides template?

Sure, I'm willing to look at about anything. Yes.

Got it! Thanks, Fox!

And I picked up a few of your templates on the way for my show!

I saw that! Thank you very much!

It's actually a show about dogs (handling, training, diet, health care, equipment, toys, movie/book reviews, etc). I'm semi-retired, and a dog trainer. So no it's not the Ben Balser show at all.


OR


Not even close…

It was the correct breed . . . what more do you want? 🐩🐶