From Social Media Experts: The Easiest Way To Gain YouTube Views

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xingcat

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Yesterday, I attended (for work) a conference for marketing students to connect with marketing professionals. I work in a marketing company (in a non-marketing role), and was invited to attend as a mentor.

One of the students, during a social media presentation, asked what the best way would be to gain YouTube followers would be. Unanimously, the social media experts said, "Purchase ads." A follow-up question asked if this was feasible, given limited budgets, the experts all said that paying for a small ad ($10-$20) would guarantee more views than hours and hours and hours of work on any one video, unless you were in a specific niche that appealed to a couple of certain types of viewers (mostly children under 10).

So that was really interesting, and I may try that out at some point in the near future, just to see. Happy viewing!
 
Yes sure it's really easy way but 10-20 USD... the price of advertising for children's channels is high enough. market is saturated and competition is very high. and this budget burn very quick imho
 
I'm not interested in ads (doesn't seem right for my niche), but for anyone who is: in a recent video on Tim Schmoyer's channel ("How To Get more YouTube Views on a Video's First 24 Hours") it was discussed among a few bigger YouTubers. I think they agreed that it doesn't make much sense for small channels, but as soon as you earn money you could invest that money into ads.
And by the way, those views may bring you subscribers but they won't increase the video's ranking as YT treats views from ads differently. However, interested viewers may watch more of your videos and raise their ranking.
 
Thanks for sharing. I agree 1000%. There is no more effective way to boost a video out the gate. Even if you consider work hours and productivity, if you spend 1 hour of your time on social posting, commenting in groups and adding to discussions, and get 20 views, you have spent $30 (or whatever is the wage in your country) of your time for 20 views. For that $30 you could set up Adwords in 2 minutes and get 3000 views. There is no more efficient way to get views, ranking, and subs and grow your channel.
 
You have to think outside the box though. Unless the terms you're ranking for in PPC are cheap, a purchased shoutout would probably be better. A $10-20 well targeted SO from a popular channel could net a better ROI than any ads bought straight through adwords or similar.
 
Ads may give you impressions, but it doesn't matter if those impressions are just merely that, impressions. The reason why proper and effective social media marketing, which is free, is better than simply throwing dollars at the monitor is because you're able to go straight to your targeted audience. If you know who your target audience is, then you know where they spend most of their time. Heck, you might be frequenting those places yourself.

The only good thing about purchasing ad space is to bloat the amount of views you get in a particular video. That bloated number is what might attract an actual potential subscriber to your channel. People like big numbers when it comes to viewing or subscribing to someone. They want to be a part of an already successful community/channel. That's why sub4sub is popular even though it's absolutely pointless in the long haul.
 
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