Comments on: Cheating YouTube

By: sonaboy

sonaboy — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:10:02 +0000

so nalts – say this is my first vid.
is there anything ethically wrong with featuring unapologetic rednecks basically attempting to kill themselves, and appealing for people to get an education to avoid behavior like this?
Billy Bob Tell

can you see where i’m going with something like this?

By: sonaboy

sonaboy — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:02:03 +0000

maybe – we’re not really “selling” anything – we’re a site that provides a free service to help people find degree programs, online studies, community colleges and stuff. there’s nothing to sell them – we just want to be an online resource to help people.

By: Half Day » Des tricheurs sur Youtube ?

Half Day » Des tricheurs sur Youtube ? — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:33:10 +0000

[...] D’après Kevin, il semblerait bien que certains petits malins aient trouvé le moyen d’augmenter le nombre de lectures de leurs vidéos via un petit logiciel. Son fonctionnement est relativement simple puisqu’il se charge de lire en boucle la vidéo fraichement publiée. Une méthode plus artisanale consisterait à s’abonner plusieurs fois sur le service (sous des pseudo différents) puis noter ses propres vidéos.”Et alors ?” me direz vous. [...]

By: nalts

nalts — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:34:04 +0000

That sounds funny- you’d get decent views and a lot of positive comments. You’d also get a lot of complaints that you’re ripping them off to sell your goods.

By: sonaboy

sonaboy — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:26:45 +0000

well, what i meant was – since we had no budget, but needed to brandbuild a little bit, we had to grab various home videos of people doing stuff that were already up, and add text to it to angle it to our services, plus adding certain sounds and music.
so we actually do make a call to action, so i guess i broke the cardinal rule already.
so, we grabbed the N64 Xmas kid, the screaming german videogame kid, the roof jumper who fell two stories, the old lady who punched the other one, etc, and wrote a short script around it.
i don’t know..maybe i need to rethink what i’m doing…

By: nalts

nalts — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:07:01 +0000

Budget not required. Just make it funny and not over commercial. And make the ending funny instead of ending with some “call to action” that’s promotional. You don’t need money to make a kickass viral video. It doesn’t hurt of course.

By: sonaboy

sonaboy — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:09:35 +0000

Hmm…sounds like what i’m working on will be a huge disappointment to both my company, and viewers.
ack…guess that’s the price i pay for having no budget.

By: nalts

nalts — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:20:19 +0000

Marketing on YouTube is absolutely fair game. It’s how you do it. Stick an archived commercial and nobody will complain because nobody will see it. Try something hokey and it will be popular as a farce. But create something entertaining and subtly brand… you’ve got yourself a winner.

By: sonaboy

sonaboy — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:32:38 +0000

question from a new guy:
what’s the general perceived opinion of small companies that try to use YouTube to gain a bit of brand recognition?
Does everyone basically have an aversion to that, because they want to try and preserve the DIY side of the site?

I’ve never been able to tell, even though i’ve seen some great indie vids and some great larger brands doing their thing there as well…

By: Will Video for Food

Will Video for Food — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:45:39 +0000

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