I was thinking that it would be interesting to see how effective it would be to have a popular video on youtube with your advertising on a shirt or something. Has anyone done this?
Yes, but there are problems: 1) Its a mission to find a really good video. 2) Not that many people would actually visit the url One of my videos is in top 100 most viewed videos ever on google videos. Its watermarked with my url and there is even a clickable link on the side. Id say i get around 100 daily uniques from it. That's like... 0.003% of daily views.
Yes, there are quite a few threads here already. I commented (or maybe just read) one about an hour ago. People have done and still do it.
Yes I have done it, and applied a technique that was outlined in a report. Results - Over 10,000 Views in just 10 days.. forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=247566 < thats the report
There was a guy on another forum who spent $400 getting big breasted girls to say how they loved muscular men (he was selling a body building ebook); he got a number 1 spot for top rated vids or whatever on Google video and was getting about 3000 uniques a day. Colm
it depends on how you set up the video, and it helps to give them a reason to visit your site (other than just the branded url) also if you have a product that is a series of techniques (like magic tricks for exmple) you can show maybe 100 very short clips and put them on YouTube. Also, a read a story of a lady who sold a house using YouTube even though she only got a total of maybe around 350 video views.
Hello, I mentioned this in another thread, but thought it was worth a re-posting here. About a year ago I created 10 fishing blooper videos and posted them on YouTube. Here is a Squidoo lens that catalogs them all: http://www.squidoo.com/fishing-bloopers I have also, just recently, created 10 fishing tips and also posted them on YouTube. You can see a catalog here: http://www.squidoo.com/yum-baits All of these videos have done a pretty good job at driving traffic back to my eCommerce Web site http://www.lurenet.com And we have done a pretty good business of selling the blooper DVD's and fishing baits. I can't exactely say if the YouTube videos were the main driver of this successful marketing campaign, but I am getting pretty good traffic from YouTube so it definately helped! -PRADCO
Don't be seduced by figures of how many views your video has had. More importantly, is how many of those 10,000 views have actually come to your site? As mightyb pointed out, only 0.003% of his daily views made it to his site. You might do a lot better, but until you can determine how many visitors you have actually got as a result of the video it is a big mistake to go all googly eyed over the viewing figures.
It was a 'viral' video, the main onus was NOT traffic to my website but to increase the response rate for the video. Since you have not even viewed my video I suggest you PM me for the link.
.003% is pretty low and Im thinking its around .005-.008. Anyways, you also have to consider the brand awareness and other hard to track marketing aspects the video has done. Hm, my wording is pretty weird, let me know if you dont understand.
Fair enough Whizz, but most people, and I'm assuming the OP is the same, would be interested in using videos to get more traffic to their site, and I didn't want him to be mislead that 10,000 views is necessarily going to get a significant amount of traffic. A visitor rate to views of anything less than 0.01% really makes no difference drig, your still looking around 1 visitor for every 10,000 views. I see what you are saying about the long term brand awareness side though and how it would be very difficult to track with any degree of accuracy - especially as most would be typing the url straight into the address bar.
What if you made a great video, and left the last 30 seconds out, with a note at the end of the video saying See the hilarious ending at www,mysite,com.
i think this kind of traffic is bad though. if you rely on a steady income this kind of traffic is just impossible to monitor
also keep in mind there are way more sites than YouTube and Google vid. While youtube gets the most, there is also the most competition. here is a list of some other video sites: http://www.tubetraffic.com/articles/video-sites.php