Everything You Need To Know About YouTube
What Is YouTube
YouTube is an online public communications site. The site allows for registered users to upload and have available for the public their videos for viewing. Anyone who goes to the site can view the videos that are posted on this site. The videos are anything from beginner videos to more professional videos.
You can put just about anything you want on the YouTube site. You can also watch just about anything on YouTube. There are some great videos out there on YouTube that are very interesting and entertaining and will never be seen anywhere else.
You can put just about anything you want on the YouTube site. You can also watch just about anything on YouTube. There are some great videos out there on YouTube that are very interesting and entertaining and will never be seen anywhere else.
More Than 1,000,000,000,000 Playbacks On YouTube This Year
(One Trillion) (Yep, Count ‘Em, 12 Zeroes).
That’s About 140 Views For Every Person On The Earth. More Than Twice As Many Stars As In The Milky Way.
(One Trillion) (Yep, Count ‘Em, 12 Zeroes).
That’s About 140 Views For Every Person On The Earth. More Than Twice As Many Stars As In The Milky Way.
YouTube Marketing For Brands & Retailers
YouTube Marketing For Brands & Retailers.
YouTube is an outlet where most brands are missing the mark. Why? Because they are only using it for one purpose and not connecting it to multiple marketing objectives.
Brands and retailers that are using YouTube need to ensure that their content is engaging community members through channel participation. At the same time, brands and retailers need to use YouTube to drive online traffic to select destinations and enhance website search engine optimization strategies.
Creating Participation & Community Engagement
The first thing fashion brands, retailers and marketers must understand is that YouTube is a platform built entirely around the concept of engagement; its community is built around connections related to the website’s content. The second thing you must understand is that YouTube community members are very vocal about the content they do and don’t like; they are going to voice their opinions via comments, likes, share, or even direct video replies to your posted videos.
Just before YouTube launched branded channels in 2006, Tony Nethercutt offered great insights for creating community engagement via YouTube video marketing: “Create video ads that are built for the audience that is viewing it; make it as unique and as engaging as possible. Avoid the interruption model.”
Moderating Democratically
In order for brands or retailers to maximize YouTube as a community building tool, they have to make their content accessible. This means moderating comments democratically; deleting profane, vulgar comments is okay, but make sure you refrain from silencing consumers in the name of “brand control”. Your customers have opinions, these opinions serve as valuable market research.
Don’t Put A Muzzle On Your Audience
Brands shouldn’t disable video sharing capabilities. Let your community members spread content. After all, wasn’t it the brand that approved the video and its content? Why wouldn’t a viewer be allowed to embed the video to their blog or share the video via another social network?
Brands that want to get the most from YouTube in terms of RETAIL ROI (sales, new customers and traffic) should actively participate in the YouTube community. They need to take part in the discussion of the community members’ content that’s relevant to their brand. This will increase positive votes of the brand’s main content which then boosts the visibility on YouTube and search engines.
What’s Search Got To Do With It?
Most YouTube videos, as well as YouTube channels, aren’t properly optimized for higher ranking on search engines. This presents an amazing opportunity for smaller retailers to gain online market share and traffic by outranking larger retailers.
According to comScore, YouTube ranks #2 in terms of search engines; it’s second only to Google (which now owns YouTube) and outranks Bing, Yahoo and any other search service. If a brand or retailer using YouTube as a marketing outlet isn’t optimizing their content, they’re not maximizing the money spent on video marketing. In fact, they’re losing online traffic that could be converted to sales.
How Do You Make Your Fashionable YouTube Content SEO Friendly?
To optimize YouTube content, a brand simply follows the rules of any other SEO project. When a brand uploads a video, it is essentially creating a “page” with that video. That page can be optimized the same way as any other page on the web.
YouTube automatically generates meta data for each video page that’s created.
Creating Cohesive Marketing Strategies....Sound a little overwhelming? Well, don’t worry – it’s not that complicated. It just takes a bit of coordination and effort. The payoff is more streamlined, cost-effective social marketing campaigns with better results.
YouTube is an outlet where most brands are missing the mark. Why? Because they are only using it for one purpose and not connecting it to multiple marketing objectives.
Brands and retailers that are using YouTube need to ensure that their content is engaging community members through channel participation. At the same time, brands and retailers need to use YouTube to drive online traffic to select destinations and enhance website search engine optimization strategies.
Creating Participation & Community Engagement
The first thing fashion brands, retailers and marketers must understand is that YouTube is a platform built entirely around the concept of engagement; its community is built around connections related to the website’s content. The second thing you must understand is that YouTube community members are very vocal about the content they do and don’t like; they are going to voice their opinions via comments, likes, share, or even direct video replies to your posted videos.
Just before YouTube launched branded channels in 2006, Tony Nethercutt offered great insights for creating community engagement via YouTube video marketing: “Create video ads that are built for the audience that is viewing it; make it as unique and as engaging as possible. Avoid the interruption model.”
Moderating Democratically
In order for brands or retailers to maximize YouTube as a community building tool, they have to make their content accessible. This means moderating comments democratically; deleting profane, vulgar comments is okay, but make sure you refrain from silencing consumers in the name of “brand control”. Your customers have opinions, these opinions serve as valuable market research.
Don’t Put A Muzzle On Your Audience
Brands shouldn’t disable video sharing capabilities. Let your community members spread content. After all, wasn’t it the brand that approved the video and its content? Why wouldn’t a viewer be allowed to embed the video to their blog or share the video via another social network?
Brands that want to get the most from YouTube in terms of RETAIL ROI (sales, new customers and traffic) should actively participate in the YouTube community. They need to take part in the discussion of the community members’ content that’s relevant to their brand. This will increase positive votes of the brand’s main content which then boosts the visibility on YouTube and search engines.
What’s Search Got To Do With It?
Most YouTube videos, as well as YouTube channels, aren’t properly optimized for higher ranking on search engines. This presents an amazing opportunity for smaller retailers to gain online market share and traffic by outranking larger retailers.
According to comScore, YouTube ranks #2 in terms of search engines; it’s second only to Google (which now owns YouTube) and outranks Bing, Yahoo and any other search service. If a brand or retailer using YouTube as a marketing outlet isn’t optimizing their content, they’re not maximizing the money spent on video marketing. In fact, they’re losing online traffic that could be converted to sales.
How Do You Make Your Fashionable YouTube Content SEO Friendly?
To optimize YouTube content, a brand simply follows the rules of any other SEO project. When a brand uploads a video, it is essentially creating a “page” with that video. That page can be optimized the same way as any other page on the web.
YouTube automatically generates meta data for each video page that’s created.
- The NAME of the video is the title tag. The title is the most important piece of information when it comes to video searches. The first two words of the title are the most heavily weighted words.
- The video INFORMATION is the meta description. The description is a keyword-rich text area that needs to be used to the best of your ability. Always lead the start of the paragraph with a URL that you want viewers to go to. Put as full of a description as possible in this area, as most videos are invisible to search engines.
- Include relevant links in the description. This would include “follow us on Twitter” or “become a fan on Facebook” links. Keep in mind the places where you want YouTube traffic to go, and think about what you plan to do with the places you link to. Make sure to include all necessary links.
- Chose a category and add additional video tags carefully. It’s important you select the category you place your video is as accurate as possible. Categories help point potential customers to your content. When adding video tags, make sure you reference the most important video highlights, including the names of the people in the video and information about the content (example: Spring Fashion Trends Video).
- Take advantage of YouTube’s caption and annotation features. Brands and retailers can add notes, descriptions and links directly above videos. Currently, links are only clickable to other YouTube pages, so if you’re telling a story (which your brand should be doing), you can link to previous installments or relevant videos. Doing this will boost the time spent on your channel and increase the number of page views for your videos.
- Link to and embed the YouTube videos. By linking to the videos it will drive more traffic and the page views which YouTube looks at internally for ranking videos.
Creating Cohesive Marketing Strategies....Sound a little overwhelming? Well, don’t worry – it’s not that complicated. It just takes a bit of coordination and effort. The payoff is more streamlined, cost-effective social marketing campaigns with better results.