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Analytics Tricks: What is Traffic Source and Why Does it Matter?

March 2, 2016·
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12780 Views·

YouTube has some extremely detailed analytics which are important factors in building more traffic. There are many different kinds of analytics, all of them important for different reasons. Optimizing some put your videos in potential viewers’ sidebars, while other analytics factors are for YouTube’s algorithm. Today we’re looking at traffic source. By studying your analytics, you can see where most of your traffic comes from. From there you can improve your connection to those sources, and get more traffic.

Traffic sources can help you understand how well different ad campaigns are performing. It can even help you figure out how valuable paid views are when comparing different vendors. The potential is limitless, so the faster you can learn how to understand and use traffic source for your benefit, the better.

Influencer Marketing on YouTube: How it Works

February 27, 2016·
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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.

5 Ways to Increase Engagement for Your YouTube Videos

February 24, 2016·
6134 Views·

If you’re on YouTube, a massive view count or a ton of likes can only go so far. Without any engagement from your viewers, your video feels like a ghost town. Lack of viewer engagement hurts your subscriber rate, and you need to get that fixed. Today, we’ve got five useful tips that will help you boost engagement on all your YouTube videos.

Grow Your Charity on YouTube

February 10, 2016·
6121 Views·

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.

How to Create A Custom YouTube Thumbnail

February 25, 2015·
5 Comments·
15196 Views·

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You may have noticed videos on YouTube with custom thumbnails. This is becoming more of a common practice, as designing a custom thumbnail is one of the best things that you can do to get your video noticed on a search page. If you leave it up to YouTube’s default settings, you’ll get a frame selected at random, which more often than not is a poor representation of your video. That’s not a good first impression that will make people want to click and watch.

So first let’s look at how you can create a custom thumbnail, and then learn a few ways to make it stand out from a crowded webpage.
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How ANYONE Can Get More YouTube Subscribers Naturally

February 12, 2015·
1 Comments·
11809 Views·

Five Ways to Use Videos for your Business

January 4, 2015·
5533 Views·

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]If video isn’t already the gold standard for promoting brand awareness, then it certainly will be in the near future. According to Cisco, “Video traffic will be 79 percent of all consumer Internet traffic in 2018, up from 66 percent in 2013.” For businesses looking to capitalize on this trend, the time is now for planning your video marketing strategy.

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]One important feature that should apply to most videos is that they should strive to go beyond marketing your brand, and instead offer something of value to your audience, whether it be to inform or entertain. Videos that appear to be merely “selling” something will usually be ignored, while those that create some sort of excitement or “fun” will stand out.
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