So..... am gonna try Reddit wish me luck!

JRTrax said:
There are so many methods people use. Me personally I put a highlight clip from the video at the beginning of the video to grab their attention. It's really difficult to get people to stay for 20 minutes. Rarely happens.[DOUBLEPOST=1482085012,1482084515][/DOUBLEPOST]Just wanted to clarify I'm not telling you not to do it. Im not an expert on the subject. I have been doing a ton of research though. If you post on reddit and it works for you that is cool to.
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No man its cool.... i haven't thought of viewing time actually until now.But now i am thinking of ways i can utilise those techniques now for my next video so you actually helped me out! thanks.
 
Yeah I've just created an account at Reddit also. However I'm still trying to understand where others go wrong. I see that they have sub reddits for specific things. The forums that I'm looking at specifically encourage you to share stuff related to that forum. For example there is a workspace sub forum that encourages you to share your workspace setup (images..link/video)...so I don't understand what problems you could encounter if you share a video of your workspace setup. Maybe i'm missing something.
 
Keyser Reveal said:
Yeah I've just created an account at Reddit also. However I'm still trying to understand where others go wrong. I see that they have sub reddits for specific things. The forums that I'm looking at specifically encourage you to share stuff related to that forum. For example there is a workspace sub forum that encourages you to share your workspace setup (images..link/video)...so I don't understand what problems you could encounter if you share a video of your workspace setup. Maybe i'm missing something.
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Sounds like you can do it just fine their. My thing is I need the Madden sub reddit. Well that one is full of absolutely terrible Youtubers sharing their videos. So if you put one there they assume it's bad. Just depends what you are doing.
 
JRTrax said:
Sounds like you can do it just fine their. My thing is I need the Madden sub reddit. Well that one is full of absolutely terrible Youtubers sharing their videos. So if you put one there they assume it's bad. Just depends what you are doing.
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Gotcha. Thanks
 
KingUsher said:
That`s too bad man...but can you give us any details of how you shared your videos and what they were about.I am kinda interested cause i am kinda of analysing the types of videos not getting hate on reddit and the types that do get hate.
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Back when I used it for social sharing, it was for forum-based content rather than media-based content. I shared it like I would on any other social bookmarking service, but I got called a spammer for it though I didn't mean to be one. It might all be different nowadays, that was years ago.
 
PositivelyBrainwashed said:
Reddit is my number one external place to get views. Yes it's true that my audience retention from there is about a minute and 10 seconds less (my average is 4 minutes), but it's totally worth it for the thousands of views and subscribers you get from there and all the watch time will more than make up for it. Just be prepared for all the criticisms good and bad you can get. But from my experience if your content is good, people will upvote your content and many will love you. It took me several months to really understand the math on how Reddit works, so don't expect much results when you start. I know it's different depending on what niche you're in but if anyone tells you Reddit doesn't work, they just haven't figured out how it works yet.

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This is a really great comment- highlights that Reddit can be really useful if you take the time to understand it. The key is realising that reddit is not one beast- different sub-reddits exist for literally anything! We once got a load of views from a "Norse" subreddit when we reviewed a movie about Vikings. Different sub-reddits have different rules and different expectations, its important to try and get a feel for what people will respond well to and find the right place to post!
 
Shawn Gossman said:
Back when I used it for social sharing, it was for forum-based content rather than media-based content. I shared it like I would on any other social bookmarking service, but I got called a spammer for it though I didn't mean to be one. It might all be different nowadays, that was years ago.
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Ahh,maybe you should give it another try.... i am actually kinda enjoying commenting on videos right now on Reddit while am managing my YouTube channel and am still building up post karma before i post in the main video thread.I did post in some sub reddits my channel and videos but i followed the rules for the sub Reddit and no negative feedback so far.So i think my advice would be read the rules for that sub reddit and follow them and try to comment on some of the content so that people can at least see you`re also checking out their contents thus they might up vote your posts.
 
PositivelyBrainwashed said:
Nope, I break all the rules of self promotion and have never faced any severe consequences from it. There are only 2 small subreddits that have taken my posts down and told me I have to balance what I post, but if I wait like 2 months, I'm able to post there again. But I will recommend that you create your account a month ahead of time and participate, share content that isn't yours just to boost your post and comment karmas. I really don't think people care about your 'name,' at least in the 20 subreddits I use. Perhaps it's different on whatever niche you're in.

Here are my best tips on how to succeed in Reddit:
1. You have to really need to understand the voting system, how long a video stays number one given how many upvotes it got and how fast it got up votes. This also depends on how big the subreddit is. From my experience this takes weeks or months to get a good feel for this, but it's REALLY REALLY important. I'll often time posts when the number one or two trending has passed its peak. Because the reality is, usually only the top video in the subreddit gets all the views because they appear in people's homepage.
2. Creating good titles is very important. Don't always use the same title you used on Youtube. Think of the needs of the people in the subreddit. Again this takes time, and perhaps a lot of trial and error to get a good grasp on
3. Respond to every or most comment you receive as this increases the comment count. Growing big on Reddit is all about popularity. If people see a video or post with lots of upvotes and high comment count, they are more likely to upvote the video. This is just basic human psychology. I can upload a video in a subreddit that doesn't make number one, and it get's a 56% upvote with only 6 points. But if I reupload the exact video at a later time with better timing, it can get an 86% upvote with over 1000 points and get thousands and thousands of views. Reddit is all about snowballing.
4. Your content has to be good and relevant to the subreddit. Reality is, if your competitors are posting better content than yours, than they'll have a better chance to succeed. So if you have a competitor that you know generates high upvotes, don't post yours when he/she has recently posted. If they have a posting schedule, take note of it and avoid those times.
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follow up question, say if your first post don't go where you would like to be, would you delete it and repost again? if so do you wait a day or any strategy on that? is there a "max amount of attempts" you would post a video?
 
Farmeryang said:
follow up question, say if your first post don't go where you would like to be, would you delete it and repost again? if so do you wait a day or any strategy on that? is there a "max amount of attempts" you would post a video?
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What you're asking is frowned upon, and can potentially get you banned depending on the subreddit. So I'm not gonna give my insight on that
 
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