Youtube as a Marketing Tool
Its bandwidth costs are estimated at approximately $1 million a day. In January 2008 alone, nearly 79 million users watched over 3 billion videos on YouTube (taken from wikipedia). This amazing facts has made Youtube as one of the ideal place for marketers to promote their services worldwide. More importantly, it’s a free opportunity to showcase their offerings.
In case you are not aware of it, Youtube is a video sharing website where people can share, upload and view video clips. It is very popular, in fact some people prefer watching videos on Youtube rather than spending time in front of TV. More and more companies these days are using Youtube as a place to promote their services. It’s easy to increase the popularity of your videos. The more people view your videos, the higher your popularity grows.
There are some techniques that I use to increase my video’s views
1) Embed the videos into your own blog or myspace profile.
2) Put the link to the videos on your signature links (email and forum)
The more views your video gets, the higher it moves and thus increasing the popularity of you video. Make sure your video is interesting to watch and try to produce your own videos.
Have you ever tried marketing with Youtube?
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yeah youtube is a good free marketing tool…with bandwidth so much, they would have to make so much more than a million a day in ads that are displayed there…
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agreed, youtube is huge!