YouTube is expanding its YouTube Music streaming services into 12 more countries and offering more music content to subscribers. As YouTube Music expands, this will lead to more opportunities for musicians on the platform.
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YouTube Music Expands, Available in Canada, UK, and More!
The 5 Most Viewed YouTube Videos: Watch Some Video Giants!
People never tire of watching YouTube videos. That is proven day by day as videos on YouTube as new videos routinely cross the 1 million view mark in a single day. Although new niches are making ground on the platform, music videos are still the dominant force when it comes to viewership on YouTube. This article has collected the five most viewed YouTube videos so that you can watch them all right here, and also discusses their success on the platform.
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YouTube & Ticketmaster Partner: Your Ticket to Celebrity Events
You may have experienced trying to book a ticket to watch for your favorite artist perform on stage, but just to your dismay, all the tickets are sold out. Or it could be that you really wanted to follow your most favorite performer on his world tour but buying tickets mean lining up in a really long queue. These are just some of the most likely really frustrating experiences just to get close to your favorite stars. But wait! YouTube has found a way to help you get through it with much less stress.
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How And Why You Should Use YouTube For Customer Support
YouTube started out as a video sharing platform but has now spawned into one of the most engaging and immersive marketing platforms on the internet.
One way to maximize the marketing benefits YouTube has to offer is by using it as a vessel to improve customer satisfaction.
The dawn of live videos has made it so much easier for brands to engage with users who are curious about their products and services, and gives them a more animated platform to reach out to their audience.
5 Big Digital Video Trends for 2017
If you still aren’t making video a part of your marketing strategy in 2017, then you definitely have to make it your priority for next year. Video consumption is on the rise and there’s no sign of it slowing down.
This year Facebook launched a video platform, Facebook Watch, to compete with YouTube and share in the growing video audience. With the number of YouTube users climbing to astronomical heights, there’s no reason not to expect even more live video opportunities to emerge.
So, as this year nears its end and we consider new marketing strategies, let’s talk about 5 of the most popular digital video trends that will certainly continue through 2018.
Can Facebook Watch Compete with YouTube?
It’s the digital video revolution. People are slowly weaning off traditional TV consumption and embracing video on the net.
So it isn’t surprising that Facebook, after conquering the other social media networks and being dubbed the king of social media, now wants to try its hand at video hosting and sharing, an online realm dominated by YouTube.
Facebook is indeed innovating. It isn’t stealing creators and users from YouTube yet but it will be interesting to watch how things will develop between these two giants and how social media users will react.
For now, let’s take a closer look at Facebook’s new video platform and how it compares to YouTube.
10 YouTube Channels That Will Make You Smarter
Not everything on YouTube is drivel, despite what your Facebook feed might imply. Not everyone records themselves doing absolutely nothing or dramatizes their day with a story and a clickbait title. In fact, many are pretty informative if not straight out educational.
If you often find yourself wondering what you’re doing with your life watching dumb videos and are looking for new channels that are worth spending your precious time on, this post is for you. Take a look at some of these channels — even if they don’t make you smarter (which they probably will), they’ll at least give you something interesting to talk about.
How YouTube Gamers Influence The Gaming Industry
YouTube is changing the gaming world order at an incredible rate. At the highest point sits YouTube gamers, who have changed the way video games are introduced to the market, as well as the perception of what will be a popular subject to watch.
Gone were the days when users and game developers had to rely on mainstream media for reviews and advertising respectively. Today, people simply check out gaming videos of YouTube personalities who are only too eager to share their opinions with the world.
No longer can game companies control branding information and messages around their products. YouTube gamers hold considerable power over the gaming industry and with 90% of gamers turning to YouTube for gaming advice every week, there’s no sign of this influence being overturned.
Influencer Marketing on YouTube: How it Works
YouTube is an amazing social media site that puts user-created content in front of other users. It’s one of the most personal ways for one user to connect with another, and for that reason, can be an extremely effective marketing platform. YouTube can also be used to put brands and products in front of highly-targeted audiences who will be interested. This can be in the form of product placement, which is a kind of influencer marketing. These new marketing tactics are a new form of influencer marketing; It’s essentially the same as your favorite actor doing a commercial for McDonald’s, but with millions of different influencers sending messages for millions of different brands, for billions of different viewers.
Grow Your Charity on YouTube
YouTube has become a major platform for charity work in recent years. It makes sense, as a video can be a powerful tool in relaying information. Uploading a stellar viral video can bring more awareness to your charity than you can imagine. To make things better, YouTube has rolled out many different features to help charities.
Still, the majority of the work lands on your shoulders to get a YouTube channel off the ground. Building a following online for any niche is a challenge, but this can be especially true with a charity. Most people are working to get people to buy things they want. But in the case of a charity, you’re aiming for generosity and altruism to get what your organization needs.