OK, here's a question: is there any way to view a video without increasing its view count?
I'm 99.9% sure the answer is NO, but if you can think of an exception I'd like to hear it.
Yes, just don't let the video play until the end. Youtube actually only counts views when a video plays all the way to the end (so I've heard, and does seem to be the case.) I know this because in order to "game" Youtube a person has to let the video play all the way to the end before having their browser automatically refresh.
You can read more about that here:
http://mashable.com/2006/10/16/gaming-youtube-for-fun-and-profit/
ok what do you think about youtube as a marketing tube?
how would you market on there?
do you think another site could compete with youtube?
I think Youtube is OUTSTANDING for marketing. Although I'm sure it would depend on what exactly it is you're marketing and how you go about doing it. It takes time to build an audience on Youtube is can be a lot of work (if you don't know the "tricks.") BUT if you make a video about... something that there aren't a lot of videos about. Title and tag it properly it's going to rank high on a Google search (do a couple "common" Google searches see how many have Youtube videos. Also, people click through the "related videos" on Youtube, so you can get traffic that way as well.
(I kind of rambled on that one...)
How would I use it? Well, I guess I'm figuring that out right now. But the way I'm going to use it is going to be different than you. I already have an audience on Youtube. My plan is to review products that would match my audience and have affiliate links to go with said products. Or drive traffic to a blog. Or build an email list. There are a lot of things that can be done. I'd start playing around.
Wu Chess (
http://www.wuchess.com/ ) came out a few days ago and I asked them if I could have a free subscription if I would review it on my blog and Youtube channel. They said yeah (that was fun.) I plan on finding stuff to review that I would get paid off of. [/ramble]
I don't think there is another site that can compete with Youtube (generally speaking.) Although there are going to be a lot of "specialty" sites that will be better than Youtube for certain things (like godtube
http://www.godtube.com/ if you were going to be focusing on religion.)
One thing you may be unaware of is that Youtube now has the Google Analytics feature FOR ALL USERS! This thing is FRESH! You can see who watched what when and how.
They talk about it here really quick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo6HBKTyIzQ
But they've already added some more features since releasing that video (like what search terms were used, plus male/female and ages demographics.)
whats up with the new google adsense being implemented in youtube. how exactly does that work and how is money generated from that by webmasters (cats using this new feature)
holla
It depends on which one you're talking about. It sounds like you're talking about that feature with hwo you can embed a Youtube video and it will display ads and you'll get a cut. I haven't used that yet, so I can't say much about it. I am in the partner program (where they place ads next to the videos.) I basically get a cut from that. If you have the ability of setting that up, you should do that and let me know how that works out for you.
