Thought of Leaving YouTube?

Would you ever try it?

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I wouldn't leave youtube.. take breaks, yes. Leave, no :) I've found some awesome people who I play games all the time with off youtube.. if I left I don't think I would have anyone to game with anymore..
 
Yeah I would probably use both. But I am unsure whether or not it would be beneficial because it would probably be costly for traffic. You would probably resort to embedding You Tube videos to keep the traffic on YouTube.
 
I moust certainly did and alot of times just because i didn`t get the amount of subs at first but then i didn`t gave up and now i have gained a few more and then bcuz of the views that i just wasn`t getting to enough ppl and when i came to this forum all the amazing ppl cheered me up and now i want to continue in full force lol
 
LegendOfGamer said:
BOTH

If you have a website to host the content that you have on Youtube show both of those sources equal attention, the more places to see you the better.
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I didn't even consider posting the same videos on both YouTube and another website...wondering if the content might get penalized in search engines as being duplicate content? But the more exposure, the better, I agree.

Andi said:
I wouldn't leave youtube.. take breaks, yes. Leave, no :) I've found some awesome people who I play games all the time with off youtube.. if I left I don't think I would have anyone to game with anymore..
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I've always thought of YouTube as a video social network. So I was wondering if people might treat YouTube like Twitter/Facebook for the social aspects and then funnel that traffic to their own website.


TylorSkory said:
Actually yes! We have which is where we are supposed to post our "Behind the scenes" videos (basically for all the "pros" reasons you listed above and a few more). Coming from a web development background, setting everything up was the easy part. Honestly for us, it's finding the time to keep the site updated that's hard. I still do want to drive traffic to it because it could potentially be a good source for new traffic and also revenue, but between filming and everything, it's just very difficult. But I think Cole (my brother from our channel) is going to start taking over the website and try to keep it updated with new blog posts and stuff.

Edit: We also post our main videos there, but I don't think we would ever not post those on YouTube. However, I do eventually want to make website exclusive videos in addition to our YouTube stuff.
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William Phan said:
Another benefit I could see is avoiding Content ID matching and copyright strikes. If you get big enough or if the owner finds you, you'll probably just get a C&D letter.
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It's interesting to see more pros and I am also thinking about making website exclusive vids :)


I agree with everyone who says this would probably be easier for a website that already gets a lot of traffic, because there is so much traffic going to YouTube already.

Great thoughts, everyone, thank you!!
 
xLoveHappyx "wondering if the content might get penalized in search engines as being duplicate content?" i don`t think so bcuz its your video you made it and unless you have copyright things in it then you can do what ever you want with it
 
i think it's easier to find you on youtube. a lot of youtubers go through random videos and may find you. but how do they find your website?
 
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