Using Youtube Promote Worth It?

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I'd be curious what your results are also. I have thought about running an adwords campaign, but I would want to create my advertising video first. What you are talking about promotes a single video within YouTube. I find this interesting also in that you only pay for clicks and that you can target an audience.

I don't mind paying to promote if I know that it will bring in results.
 

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I was wondering if anyone has used the promote option when you click down on the arrow next to edit on a video? You get to input the dollar amount you want to use to promote, and then youtube runs an ad for your video on peoples videos. Has anyone used this? I put in to plan on spending $10. They said the views can range from 0-1.4k which would be incredible for a small channel. What do you guys think about this? and if you have used it does it spiral to other success on your channel?
NICE - i'm really really curious how this works for you! Please let me know how it goes.
 

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I'd be curious what your results are also. I have thought about running an adwords campaign, but I would want to create my advertising video first. What you are talking about promotes a single video within YouTube. I find this interesting also in that you only pay for clicks and that you can target an audience.

I don't mind paying to promote if I know that it will bring in results.
I've just finished day 2 of a promotion with a very small budget of £3 per day.
I received 197 extra views on Day 1 and so far 209 on Day 2.
It's really useful to be able to target certain geographical areas and age groups. I can see exactly where the views are coming from in real time.
 
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Wow. I didn't even know that existed. Is it new? Please do let us know how you get on.
Think i Need to that youtube promte thing worth it
NICE - i'm really really curious how this works for you! Please let me know how it goes.
I'd be curious what your results are also. I have thought about running an adwords campaign, but I would want to create my advertising video first. What you are talking about promotes a single video within YouTube. I find this interesting also in that you only pay for clicks and that you can target an audience.

I don't mind paying to promote if I know that it will bring in results.

Since you guys are the people the requested information on how the promotion campaign went.


Here is a pic of some stats i got from just the ad video


For my channel I earned 2 subs (personally not worth it) and the video got 3,607 views.

What i will be doing next time is promoting a video specifically to sell my channel. The video i used was from my "I Won't Lose" series and it's not for everyone. Making a channel ad to promote could make this tool worth it!
 

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Since you guys are the people the requested information on how the promotion campaign went.


Here is a pic of some stats i got from just the ad video


For my channel I earned 2 subs (personally not worth it) and the video got 3,607 views.

What i will be doing next time is promoting a video specifically to sell my channel. The video i used was from my "I Won't Lose" series and it's not for everyone. Making a channel ad to promote could make this tool worth it!

thanks for being so open to sharing your experience! so you ended up paying $87.22 at the end of it all?

I wonder how much you made off of the Adsense for that (probably not a ton/enough to offset that).

I think this a great tool but like you said, when you're small it may be better to do a highlight reel type video of your channel's best moments or something.
 

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thanks for being so open to sharing your experience! so you ended up paying $87.22 at the end of it all?

I wonder how much you made off of the Adsense for that (probably not a ton/enough to offset that).

I think this a great tool but like you said, when you're small it may be better to do a highlight reel type video of your channel's best moments or something.
When i first logged on this morning and saw the $87.22 i flipped!!! because i set my daily budget to $2.50/per day for 5 days. I went to go see how i could contact google and i saw a billing option. I clicked on that and it said i only owed $12.56, so im not really sure what that cost column is for.

Also the views i got from the ad did not count towards adsense at all. I think because most of the views came from people watching it for 5 seconds on an ad before a video.

Youre right, if i do this again i plan on creating a unique ad for my channel and not just doing a campaign for a random video. Also i plan on editing the demographic to select counties. a lot of the views close to 60% were from Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil, and Thailand. Im a hockey gaming channel...not the best places to show an ad for hockey stuff.
 

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No point trying to force people to watch/subscribe to a channel if you dont have the content to back it up. Seems like money down the drain.

First try and get about 20+ quality videos online, then try and promote it.

There are so many channels about these days. Its got to be quality for somebody to subscribe.
 

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Lol, i just had this same question. I choose to pay $5 for 14 days so it's like $0.36 a day for 14 days which is less than a can a coke a day. A little extra push to keep me motivated is all.
 
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You can do this if you have some capital to invest in your business, because yes, Youtube is going to be your business, but i think you can spend that money better elsewhere on some SEO and video creation instead and that would prove much better.