Where to promote

[mathicious]

Hey
So I spend a lot of time promoting my channel (but not in a spammy way). Promoting is the key to success, the people won't find you otherwise. So I've been doing the following:

What I do:

• Commenting on popular videos to maybe get a top comment or at least to let other people see my logo
• Commenting on other comments on popular videos. It often gets even more likes and at least the involved people see your comment.
• Commenting on recent (not popular) videos of the same theme to attract the uploader him/herself
• Tweeting and DM'ing with people on Twitter who could be interested in my stuff
• Tweeting every video 2-3 times
• Sharing my videos on Google+ (not that often)
• Beeing active on YTtalk
• Create and share content on Tumblr
• Post your videos on Reddit (/s/videos) (only if you're an active Redditor)

What you could do additionally (I don't do it because I don't like it):

• Posting on Facebook
• Sharing with friends and family

Those are my promoting options. What I want from you is to post what else you do! Where do you promote? What are your tactics? If they are helpful, I'll edit this first post

 

[The Layoh]

Nice Tips Man You can also post on other forums and in your network forums

 

[Perro V]

Cool tips, man. For some reason Tumblr isn't working that well for me now, so could you elaborate on that a bit more, like what time do you post, what tags to use, etc? I'm posting other content of course and following people similar to my niche.

 

[WillyPapafry]

If I make a video that I think is unique and will get attention I post it to r/video on reddit, I haven't found good subreddits that allow it, but reddit usually gets a video of mine to around 200 views instead of the usual 5 or 10

 

[Keyao Films]

Cool tips, man. For some reason Tumblr isn't working that well for me now, so could you elaborate on that a bit more, like what time do you post, what tags to use, etc? I'm posting other content of course and following people similar to my niche.

I'm in the same boat here, don't really get anything from Tumblr so would love to know more on what you do on there.

If I make a video that I think is unique and will get attention I post it to r/video on reddit, I haven't found good subreddits that allow it, but reddit usually gets a video of mine to around 200 views instead of the usual 5 or 10

THIS! A recent video of mine got me 600+ views alone from the video subreddit.

 

[WillyPapafry]

I'm in the same boat here, don't really get anything from Tumblr so would love to know more on what you do on there.



THIS! A recent video of mine got me 600+ views alone from the video subreddit.

Exactly! You just have to be semi active on reddit otherwise the bot gets kinda mad at you

 

[Keyao Films]

Exactly! You just have to be semi active on reddit otherwise the bot gets kinda mad at you

Yup! I think you definitely need more than 1 link karma.. and I've found if you don't copy the title video as your link title it doesn't get taken down instantly (not sure if that last part is fact, but it's what allowed me to post more videos on that subreddit).

 

[Luceroboy]

I'm not sure if it gets you more traffic, but I'm sure it does increase the chance. Recently I've been going on my favorite youtubers videos and after watching the video I make my own comment (try to get top comment) and then I read through as many comments as possible. Treat their comments as your own comments. Reply to as many as possible because it is a guaranteed view from the original poster. I don't reply to every single one only ones that I can actually contribute a relative response and add to the conversation. I get a lot more likes and replies on other peoples comments than on the ones I make myself. One time I got 54 likes with a one word response to someones comment. I find this quite fun and I like to do it on my down time, maybe 30mins before I sleep I watch a video and then have fun in the comments.

A bonus is to make your icon convey that you have a youtube channel. I changed mine to where I'm wearing a headset so it's a dead giveaway I have a gaming channel. I was tempted to put 'gaming' at the end of my name, but it feels like overkill.

 

[Perro V]

I'm not sure if it gets you more traffic, but I'm sure it does increase the chance. Recently I've been going on my favorite youtubers videos and after watching the video I make my own comment (try to get top comment) and then I read through as many comments as possible. Treat their comments as your own comments. Reply to as many as possible because it is a guaranteed view from the original poster. I don't reply to every single one only ones that I can actually contribute a relative response and add to the conversation. I get a lot more likes and replies on other peoples comments than on the ones I make myself. One time I got 54 likes with a one word response to someones comment. I find this quite fun and I like to do it on my down time, maybe 30mins before I sleep I watch a video and then have fun in the comments.

A bonus is to make your icon convey that you have a youtube channel. I changed mine to where I'm wearing a headset so it's a dead giveaway I have a gaming channel. I was tempted to put 'gaming' at the end of my name, but it feels like overkill.

You know, that actually is some good advice! I am sure gonna try that. But of course no spam or anything, just something funny that'll make them laugh and maybe them checking out your channel.

 

[socialsketch]

I get top comments very often on YouTube but that doesn't really bring people over to my channel even with thousands of likes. The best way for me is just sharing it with my friends on Facebook. Apart from that I guess paying for advertisement would be the best thing, but I don't have enough quality content to justify that yet.

If you don't have a large following on other sites already there is not much point yet in advertising on places like twitter, just my opinion. A few backlinks won't do much anyways. Also going on social media sites and talking with people to hopefully get a few more subscribers is a lot of time you are wasting that you could be focusing on making more quality content.