Yeah, That's true!
But also the Fb YouTube groups aren't that useful :/
Everyone just post there content but nobody checks it, they just post a link in that group and leave so ...
Exactly the same as G+communities - just dump a link everywhere you can then leave.[DOUBLEPOST=1470309256,1470308184][/DOUBLEPOST]
Have you tried uploading a video directly to FB? I'm wondering more about doing that and putting a watermark on the video that lists my YouTube channel name. I read (somewhere, can't remember where) that this is a decent strategy. I'm not sure if this is what people mean by a gateway video.
On Monday, our shelter's FB person uploaded one of my videos directly to FB (I didn't put a watermark) instead of a link to Vimeo or YouTube like we usually do. The shelter's FB page is huge - over 360,000 likes. We got over 16,000 views, 1100 likes and 456 shares. This afternoon when I go to the shelter, I'll work with the FB person to see if we can figure out some of the stats to determine how many people actually watched the video.
Even if I can't figure out how to get FB people to the YouTube channel, just having this much more engagement (with likes and shares) will be good for the shelter's efforts to get animals adopted or raise funds.
That's a good response you got. I think it's great to build awareness of a social cause.
But I'm looking at it from a purely business position. I don't want to upload natively to FB because of several reasons. It's extra work to duplicate the YT channel on FB. I have to re-render the videos and take out the YT end cards. That's the main reason.
Second is FB will not share revenue yet they earn revenue from ads they run along my videos. I morally (and financially) object to this.
Third, FB will not promote the videos to everyone who liked the page unless I pay them. That's double greedy on their part.
So I will do all that extra work for nothing. Likes and shares on FB don't mean anything, they don't pay the bills. The only benefit is getting that 1% traffic that clicks from FB to YT, so say I have 10,000,000 views on FB in a year (which is highly unlikely anyway unless you are well-know or a celebrity already).
At 1% traffic that's 100,000 views. At YT current pay rates, that's about $80. I'm just not prepared to work on FB for a whole year uploading and maintaining a video site for perhaps $80 revenue, when FB will earn $5,000 - $10,000 off ads running next to my content and keep all that to themselves!! (I'm of course assuming similar ad rates to YT).