Everyone want more to promote their videos, it’s an idea that everybody get in mind. First thing you will get in mind for promoting is sharing. May be to get likes, comments and more views for your videos, its a idea of becoming a vlogger with your own YouTube channel. All you need is discipline, as well as a constant stream of fresh ideas, if you’ve chosen the path of vlogging. You need to be creative in creating new videos with new and fresh ideas.
Always remember making the videos is half of the effort. The other 50% are reserved for the good video promotion. YouTube noted a total fail rate in video responses (only 4 people in approximately 1 million were reported to click on the comment option which has since been removed) so there’s one less way of promoting your video.
What you should do now? How to approach the sharing? Techniques of sharing, most important where to promote your YouTube videos?
So now let me express the top five platforms:
Forums
Everyone is familiar to forums right, its solution platform on internet. One can ask questions and get right answers on right time. Now let me focus on the community forums and discussion boards. Many people seem to think that social media killed the forum culture, and while Facebook/Twitter certainly has had their effect, don’t make this rookie mistake.
Forums are always great place to promote your YouTube videos, especially if you make the effort and research some boards that are strictly related to the nature of your channel. The engagement will surely be high, because most people are in discussion boards for a reason: to talk, give feedback and study in-depth the main forum theme. The connections with various people other than known ones are always important in this process. Tags are important in this forums to interact.
What you need to make sure is that you’re adding value to it. Forum users can be extremely scrutinizing and sensitive to spam, so don’t make the mistake of spamming your video link all over the place. You might be kicked out or get banned and of course good luck promoting your video in forums.
Social Media Platforms
Social networking nowadays a necessity for everyone, from student to marketers need this platform. Normally the most popular answer for “Where to promote my YouTube videos?” question. Both Twitter and Facebook, especially Facebook which gives you the freedom of creating your own page to support your personal YouTube channel. These must be utilized by both vloggers and streamers from Twitch, and it can really net you a few thousand likes in no time.
Don’t forget about Google+. You may underrate, Google’s own social media is a great way to connect with like-minded individuals and join community discussions. Same for LinkedIn as well and its niche groups with thousands of people. Just remember what I said about the forum rules – LinkedIn groups (at least the quality ones) are very sensitive to spamming, so you’ll want to avoid that.
People who are close to you
A semi-prominent YouTube vlogger say that it all starts with a bunch of friends and relatives. If you’re a company – with your most loyal clients you must give a try.
He is right, of course because reaching out to your close people or customers is a good head start to any YouTube channel. What you need to do is just tell them that you’ve got a video running and they can see it and give you some feedback. You may ask them to share it on their profiles for extra exposure of your channel.
It works to a great extent. Don’t forget that Kick starter follows a similar principle – most of the initial project backers come from family, friends, and relatives. Utilize this approach when thinking where to promote your YouTube videos.
This is almost similar to the concept of forums, but little bit different due to its unique structure, Reddit can be a powerful way to grow your audience. Sub reddit segmentation means that you have at least several core sub reddits to the nature or industry you’re vlogging in. Sometimes when a small website gets shared, Reddit “breaks” it due to huge traffic inflow. One can grow with reddit for sure, the audience you get will be more exposed before going to your YouTube channel.
Normally once you login or visit reddit numerous videos and channels appears in home page, you can see the main audience from Reddit and people staying loyal to the YouTube channel. This could happen to you easily, if you provide real value with your videos and don’t spam, and remember to participate in the discussions. Always remember don’t ever try to play smart in spamming, even if you commit silly mistake you may be banned or else kicked out of forums.
Collaborations with other YouTube channels
YouTube collaborations are another important step all your videos deserve a whole another post. What you need to consider is teaming up with another vlogger because other people’s channels are a powerful place where you can promote your YouTube videos.
This will benefit from mixing each other’s audience, just like give and take policy. Their audience sees your videos and your audience to the same. This mix will bring forth a surge of new subscribers which will effectively increase your channel views and likes.
Collaboration can be a magical experience. It may work or else change the entire theme of your thinking. You remember it is one of the five ways to promote YouTube videos.
Conclusion – I’m sure follow these five steps to improve your audience, grow your likes and you can specialize your channel. This may be kind of basic to newcomers and silly to giant youtube channel but this will work for both. If you follow perfectly this will create wonders for sure, I hope you follow this simple and easy way to advertise your channel for likes and subscriptions. Social media is very important in this advertising process or area always remember social media is king of marketing anything, it may be product or channel.
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