NickandSteph418
I Love YTtalk
here, facebook, twitter, friends, tumblr, reddit (if you arent scared to get haters), cyberstar forums
Where promote my video ?
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Tarmack
Rhetorical Porcupine
Holy hell cop out answers just flow around here. lol. Facebook is useless without a huge friends list. Twitter equally useless. Forums bring in very limited views because forum members often subscribe too easily and too quickly to channels resulting in mass culling of subscriptions later and never actually watching content.
Now, here's some real suggestions.
Forum use can be beneficial but you need to make yourself very active and an expert of something. It doesn't matter what you're an expert at, but you need some reason for other forum members to drop your name. Then of course you need some form of link in your signature. I'm an audiophile and know a lot about sound, so I posted a great amount of stuff in the editing forum about mics, etc. I also have an audio tutorial in my signature which has 1310 views, 88 likes, 2 dislikes and 57 comments. Which are stellar ratios and most of the traffic to that video is from this site.
Reddit is an excellent resource but you need to have a thick skin. You also need to research and make sure you're putting your post in the right place and not only spamming your own videos. Post other things too. If you do get hate, it generally won't pass on to your video comments or dislikes. And if you get too much hate early, the post will simply not gain any momentum. If the post gets to the point where it generates a lot of hate, it also MUST by Reddit mechanics have received more upvotes than down.
And last but not least, be an honest critic of your own work. Look at it and ask yourself if one of your friends posted it, would you click like or share? For the vast majority of channels and content on YouTube, the answer to that question is no.
Now, here's some real suggestions.
Forum use can be beneficial but you need to make yourself very active and an expert of something. It doesn't matter what you're an expert at, but you need some reason for other forum members to drop your name. Then of course you need some form of link in your signature. I'm an audiophile and know a lot about sound, so I posted a great amount of stuff in the editing forum about mics, etc. I also have an audio tutorial in my signature which has 1310 views, 88 likes, 2 dislikes and 57 comments. Which are stellar ratios and most of the traffic to that video is from this site.
Reddit is an excellent resource but you need to have a thick skin. You also need to research and make sure you're putting your post in the right place and not only spamming your own videos. Post other things too. If you do get hate, it generally won't pass on to your video comments or dislikes. And if you get too much hate early, the post will simply not gain any momentum. If the post gets to the point where it generates a lot of hate, it also MUST by Reddit mechanics have received more upvotes than down.
And last but not least, be an honest critic of your own work. Look at it and ask yourself if one of your friends posted it, would you click like or share? For the vast majority of channels and content on YouTube, the answer to that question is no.
TheWillBox
I make moving pictures!
If you have an audience, then for sure facebook is a great source, assuming you have fans/friends that are willing to share out your videos when you post them.
Twitter, same as above, but I find it's very iffy since the feed moves really fast.
Tumblr, has worked well for me, again you need established followers and they are willing to reblog.
The common denominator with the social sites above is that you need to have an active presence and a list of followers that are your audience. Otherwise, they won't like, comment or share and it's like posting stuff out to space and letting it die.
Twitter, same as above, but I find it's very iffy since the feed moves really fast.
Tumblr, has worked well for me, again you need established followers and they are willing to reblog.
The common denominator with the social sites above is that you need to have an active presence and a list of followers that are your audience. Otherwise, they won't like, comment or share and it's like posting stuff out to space and letting it die.
TheMadTireShow
Buckeye, Arizona
I got a few views from Rightthisminute dot com for some strange reason. Dont even know why I submitted a video there. Maybe it was just for the linkback but it got me a few views.