How can I get YouTube views and subscribers without getting scammed? Here’s a video that discourages the use of bots, cheats and ridiculous purchase of views and subscribers (on eBay and other services found on Google searches). There’s no “magic bullet” or proven way to get views and subscribers overnight (although that can happen with…
I’ve written plenty about how to become a YouTube star (see free eBook v2 and “Beyond Viral“), but today’s post is the first of a series about the persistence of some top YouTube talent. It’s one thing to break through the clutter and develop a following, but quite another thing to maintain it… the latter…
A few years ago, a video could be considered “viral” if it hit a million views. Now I’d like to propose a more stringent definition, and tell you that President Obama meets the criteria. A video, I submit, is “viral” if it gets more than 5 million views in a 3-7 day period. So Obama…
Here’s a nice video montage about handling stress as teenagers… by GodRox and YouthQuestions. A ten-minute clip that reminds us of all the things we know but forget. I’m in there, but Ruth’s accent takes the cake. Says the description: “Stress is something we all deal with, probably throughout most of our lives. Learning to…
Thanks Jan for sending over this article titles, “Do You Know Why Nobody Is Clicking Your Ads.” http://www.mequoda.com/articles/web-advertising/do-you-know-why-users-arent-clicking-on-your-ads It’s true that ad units generally decrease on interaction rates as people get used to them. The article cites a .09 percent click thru rate, but I’d say that’s being quite generous. It’s also worth noting that…
Why has America’s Funniest Videos (AFV) not died in 20 years even despite the age of “instant gratification via YouTube”? How does AFV manage the logistics of culling through massive amounts of user-generated clips? How many clips does AFV producer Vin Di Bona own? Why has no other show or format “cracked the code” of…
Okay let’s just get this out. I’m a big Google fan, user, and customer. I’m also making non-trivial income from Google’s YouTube Partner program (through ad sharing on my Nalts videos seen 200 million gazillian times). So I really hesitate commending the company in a post headline. It looks I’m friggin’ shilling incognito and I…
What was the best season of SNL you can recall? Wait let me ask it a different way: which of these years did you like best and why: the Belushi years Eddie Murphy Dana Carvey Chris Farley Tina Fey And why is it that 85% of the best potential comedy fail one one singular account?…
It’s been a while since I’ve summarized some of the most important factors to getting your videos seen. This post is based on my own YouTube creator experience, my work with big brands, and my book (Beyond Viral). I’ve also written a free eBook called “How to Get Popular on YouTube Without Any Talent (version…
YouTube “Partners” are contractually obliged to not disclose earnings from Google’s video-sharing property, but that didn’t stop #2 subscribed Ray William Johnson this week. On Thursday he told ReelSEO’s Jeremy Scott that his YouTube ad-share income over the past 12 months (March 2010-March 2011) has surpassed one million dollars. Johnson, one of few top YouTubers…