Where to promote

Perro V said:
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.
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I (as you probably know it ;) ) make gifs of my videos and normally I get around 1 new follower on Tumblr per post. I don't post more than one time a day, I don't have that much content to post everyday anyway.
WillyPapafry said:
Exactly! You just have to be semi active on reddit otherwise the bot gets kinda mad at you
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Yeah, maybe this is because I can't really promote my videos on Reddit^^ I'm more a viewer than a redditor on reddit^^
Luceroboy said:
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.
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That's a great advice!! I'll put that on the top ;)
socialsketch said:
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.
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I think a bit of both, promotion and quality content, is needed. You have to find the right balance for you ;)[DOUBLEPOST=1407880301,1407880235][/DOUBLEPOST]
mouseinsneakers said:
Great tips! I find that finding other Youtubers in your niche and just making actual friends with them is often the best way to go. :)
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Of course :P But it's more friend making than promotion, but great for collabs in the future ;)
 
Oh one more place I find to promote, I have a sweatshirt that says YouTube on it and it sometimes sparks the conversation about YouTube and I will casually state how I am an up and coming Youtuber, people often forget about promoting in person
 
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I'm apart of a gaming channel, and I stream on twitch as well so the youtube channel is located at the bottom of twitch. So far I've gotten a few subscriptions from them seeing it, granted if I was a bigger twitch channel the youtube channel would probably get more views so I think that would be good. Also when highlighting a video today I saw they now have a feature to upload the videos direct to youtube since google is buying out twitch, so I guess that's a way to get views too if they see your highlights it might link them directly to your youtube channel not sure.
 
WillyPapafry said:
Oh one more place I find to promote, I have a sweatshirt that says YouTube on it and it sometimes sparks the conversation about YouTube and I will casually state how I am an up and coming Youtuber, people often forget about promoting in person
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I thought about doing this at vidcon and putting my url at the bottom of it.
 
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