Starting Jan 3rd, I'm going to be a producer on a web series called, "The Way to You". Basically, its comedy in the vein of Superbad, or Knocked Up - lots of vulgarity, sexy ladies, and possibly two girls kissing. It will have a significantly higher production value than your average web videos (professional cameras, lights, audio, and a crew of skilled video people) Oh, and also the main character talks to an imaginary chicken man. I'm looking for some advice on how to best market the series online. My goal is pretty ambitious - 200,000 views per episode on Revver and Metacafe, and 500,000 on Youtube. I currently have three sites that will partner and advertise for it: A filmmaking tips blog, a horror review site (sorta not related, but ehh), and a very generic funny videos blog. Does anyone have any tips that can get me out of the gate fast. I'm especially looking for things I can do now before hand, as we prepare to shoot. EDIT: I'm also willing to consider even crazy ideas like "Start an streaming TV channel, and produce 10 different web series". Anything goes, including sarcastic and joking comments. Have fun with it.
Link exchange and buying with a few sites that already have the audience you want (collegehumor.com, videosift.com, etc), would be the best way to go if you have a little bit of money to spend.
Would that be purely for the direct traffic, or would that help me in SERP. Since I'll probably only be making $5 cpm, I'm not sure if I could get a link cheap enough...but I'll look into it, thanks. Edit: Did a little more research, and college humor has a link exchange! Great tip thanks.