A New Way to do Early Access Videos? (Patreon)

Hi all, a new year comes with new ways of thinking about my work processes. I'm trying to find ways to save more time and one of those ways is by looking at what little tasks I'm doing here and there that can be easily automated. 

One way is scheduling YouTube videos. Currently, my videos are unlisted until the day they go live when I have to manually make the video live and then do some social posts. This only happens twice per week (except during Vlognukah, which tbh over the Christmas break annoyingly felt like I was still "working" - even if just for 10 minutes a day haha). 

The reason I currently do it this way is because I can share unlisted YouTube links with Patrons so you can get access to videos early and comment if you wish (it's always fun to see other people's comments "this video has only been live for 5 minutes but there's a comment from 12 hours ago, HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!" hehehe). The thing is, scheduling YouTube videos makes them private which you can't share via links.

But Patreon have another video solution! They have an integration with Vimeo *gasp* so there is potentially another way. 

Here are what I see as the pros and cons of using the Vimeo/Patreon integration for early access to videos:

PROS

- Hannah doesn't have to manually publish videos 

- videos will actually go out at the same time because it doesn't rely on Hannah being available to click a button

CONS

- you won't be able to comment/like on the actual YouTube video early

That's actually the only con I can think of but it feels like a big one. Unless you guys actually don't care about that?

Anyway, let me know your thoughts in the poll or comment on this post if you want to ellaborate. Patrons are my 1st priority and saving time is my 2nd so if you want to keep it the way it is, that's absolutely fine! That's why I'm asking you!

Hannah x