How valuable are Google+ Communities?

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How valuable are Google+ Communities in terms of gaining exposure for your channels and your videos? Any tips?
 

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You will get an occasional plus one which is nice. And you will reach people you could not otherwise. But many communities are just dumping grounds
 

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Probably as valuable as MySpace aka irrelevant haha. I feel that reddit is the most valuable as it got GradeAUnderA really big. Facebook is okay too.
 

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I've moved your thread to the strategy forum.

Not very valuable at all IMHO but then again, I kind of boycotted G+ when YouTube forced people to sign up with them. I've heard of people having success with hangouts. I think Twitter is much more effective.
 

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G+ is useless. Traffic is zero. You can try dumping links into a bunch of communities see if you get any clicks, but not really worth the 10 minutes. Rather take a nap.
 

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i personally believe all the social media outlets are valuable, however some more than others, for example facebook gets moer traffic than google + however even if you get a ratio of 10:1 between facebook and google + that 1 view like or subscription from google plus is as valuable as facebook, twitter reddit .... etc.
 

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i personally believe all the social media outlets are valuable, however some more than others, for example facebook gets moer traffic than google + however even if you get a ratio of 10:1 between facebook and google + that 1 view like or subscription from google plus is as valuable as facebook, twitter reddit .... etc.
Yes, but at the end of the day, most social media is just a waste of time.

Take a look at the stats for one of the top videos from RTR in the last year (watch?v=Tldlt2RhrDw) - this is one of the highest viewed kids channel/toys videos:

It's got 7,921 FB interactions out of 454,000,000 YT views, that's 0.0017%. Even if you assume there were 10 FB views for every 1 FB interaction, giving about 80,000 FB views, that's still 0.017%. FB is a waste of time. It drove a completely insignificant amount of traffic.

G+ has 18,500 interactions, so that's about 0.0041%. Also a waste of time.

I won't even mention reddit, my calculator doesn't have enough negative spaces to count that one.

This is the most popular video from any kids channel. It should have dominated FB, reddit, G+, Twittter. But it made no external impact. This reinforces the point that the most critical social network for growing a YT channel is YT.

My concern is when a newbie asks how to grow a channel, and everyone says "do social media". I would like to see the proof that social media drives significant traffic to the point that it makes a difference to channel growth.

RTR social.jpg
 
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I try to share in the google communities a lot. it only brings in a few views. I don't really find social media helpful in getting views if you are unpopular. unless your video is celeb gossip then people will definitely click. This forum is a lot more valuable than all the social media combined for me.
 

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@Mick how do you get views from this forum ? via the video & channels section. Maybe you could let me know your secrets ?
 

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You will get an occasional plus one which is nice. And you will reach people you could not otherwise. But many communities are just dumping grounds
Pretty much this. I have my settings so they automatically share new uploads to my Google+ page, but it has been a while since I've actively used it! Still, this has been a pretty solid reminder, so I'm gonna go do the thing now!