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Yolinky: your back catalogue is still playing
The video you uploaded five years ago is still being watched, and its links may be broken. Yolinky scans your whole channel, fixes them, and shows you what each link earns.
@royletron 2 min read 
The video you uploaded five years ago is still being watched today. People are still clicking the links in its description, and a surprising number of those links are broken, have moved, or were never tracked in the first place.
Yolinky is automated link management for YouTube creators. Connect your channel and it scans every video, replaces broken and untracked links with tracked ones, and then shows you exactly what each link earns.
Where the leaks are
A back catalogue quietly decays. The same four problems tend to turn up in old descriptions:
- Broken affiliate links. The shop moved, the link didn’t.
- Untracked sponsor URLs. Clicks you were never credited for.
- Dead shortener redirects. Old short links pointing nowhere.
- Links you forgot were there. They’re in videos you barely remember making.
Fixing these by hand means opening every video, checking every link and re-editing every description. On a big channel, nobody does it.
How it works
There are four steps, and none of them needs a developer or a re-upload.
- Connect your channel. Yolinky connects directly to YouTube, so there’s nothing to install. It reads your descriptions and comments, and it stores no passwords.
- We scan everything. Every outbound link in every video, going back to your first upload.
- Links become tracked. Each one is replaced with a Yolinky redirect that captures referral credit and forwards viewers on seamlessly.
- Watch the money appear. Your dashboard shows clicks, conversions and revenue, by video, by link and by date, so you’re no longer guessing which links matter.
Who it’s for
Anyone with a back catalogue and links in it, whether that’s hundreds of videos of affiliate links or a few years of sponsor reads.
It also works for agencies and people who run several channels, with team members and roles so the work can be shared.
Try it
Connecting your channel takes about two minutes, and every channel can start free. Run the scan, see what you’ve been missing, and decide from there. You can find it at yolinky.com.
It’s one of the ventures we build and run ourselves at Stellar, and there’s more on its project page.