Social networking and video sharing sites are valuable tools in business, for keeping up with family, and for promoting your channel. But what sites should you use? What is the best way to use them? How do you break it to your friends that you are a youtuber? This article may not answer everything, but it might help.
Twitter
In 140 words you can title and link a video. You might can even say a bit more about it. Not only does it link to the video, it saves it in your history and it appears under the ‘photos and videos’ section on your profile for current and future visitors to enjoy.
To get a following on twitter, simply add people you know and things that interest you. For example, if you like an actor, add them. Chances are other people who like that actor might follow you. You can add this link to your links on your youtube page for current viewers and future viewers to add you.
Also, you can link it to your you tube account to automatically upload your videos. If you forget to set this up, you can click the icon in the ‘share’ section of your comment box.
Keep your twitter active by occasionally tweeting something about you, your videos, or the subject matter in your videos.
Here you can add friends, family, and those people you haven’t seen for ten years. It makes a great tool for coming out of the proverbial youtube closet.
Don’t want your family to see you raging or geeking? Simply make a page for your channel and add who you want to view it to see it.
You can join other groups and pages where people share their videos.
You can link your youtube to your face book to automatically post videos when they are uploaded. If you forget to set this up, you can click the icon in the ‘share’ section of your comment box.
Though not so much a networking site as it is an information exchange on a massive scale. There is a subreddit for everything and it can be difficult finding the right place to post your video without the community raging at you for 'spamming'. It takes a bit of time to get used to but after a while you’ll get the hang of it.
Don’t want to run the risk of moderators removing your videos? Make your own subreddit and post them there. They will still appear in the new posts section so browsers will see them and might watch them. There is an icon for this in the ‘share’ section of your comment box under the video.
Also, not a social network, but an exchange of information. Here you can submit the link to your video and forget about it. There is an icon for this in the ‘share’ section of your comment box under the video.
A social network connected to youtube and owned by google. There are large groups for you tubers here where you can share your videos. Videos are automatically shared on your personal page.
The favorite medium for fan girls, bloggers, and content creators of all kinds. Here you can share all kinds of things.
Just like twitter, you have to keep it active and draw people in by sharing more than just your videos.
Simply chose to add a video, put in your you tube link, add some tags (as important here as they are you tube as this is how people find you)
You can share directly from youtube, but I don't recommend it as it does not give you full editing power of what you are sharing to tumblr.
A site where people make webpages for whatever they want to make a webpage about. It’s very blog styled.
Make a ‘lens’, which is just a fancy word for blog/webpage, and add your videos to it.
Make sure to put in good tags and make it look pretty.
You can also make money from this site if people buy stuff from their partner site from your webpage. This is really good for cooking, gaming, and unboxing channels.
There is no way to link/post to this from youtube so you have to manually put in your videos via their on site tool.
Just like StumbleUpon, you share it and forget it. People find things randomly and the more 'diggs', or votes, you get the more likely your video will be seen.
There used to be a way to share on this site from you tube but now you have to do it manually.
Videos are shared on this site by you and shared by users who enjoy the content. People here enjoy comedy.
Simply add your video and leave it alone. If people like it then they will share it with their social networks. This is a great tool to get videos to go viral. The tags should lead browsers to your video.
There is no longer a way to share to this site directly from you tube. You have to manually add your video but it pays off.
A site where you share your video and then people view and vote on it. The more people see it, the more likely it is to get seen. People here enjoy comedy.
They have a ‘just submitted’ section where people can check out new content.
There is no way to share directly from you tube but you can input your video by hand.
A site where you embed your videos for other members to view.
It's not very big right now but seems to be growing quickly and they seem to constantly be adding to or making changes to optimize the site.
Referring a certain number of people gets your channel featured on the front page. (If you want my referral link, just ask).
They also have a discussion forum in the works.
That’s about it. If anyone else has something they want to see added to this list, please post below the site name, link(if you can), and description of how it is used and why it is useful for youtubers.
