You Tube viral advertising

I was reading Webiz Today, a great web marketing blog that I am sure some of you visit, and searching through the archive when I cam across an article on how to advertise/market and get traffic from YouTube Videos.

It is a very interesting article and I am going to try it making a video for my site. Have any of you tried it?

The article can be found here http://webiztoday.com/wordpress/?p=9.

 

Never thought of that one great idea ...I think I will try The 3 Stooges meet the Bill Gates video lol ..

 

Who here has tried it? I have gotten very good results with YouTube marketing

 

google video as well. a friend of mine nailed 200k + hits in a day by posting a video entitled "steve irwin stingray death video".

Not neccessarily morally sound, however it did work extremely well for driving traffic.

 

LOL, you mean he got 200k+ pissed off visitors

 

Yes there have been dozens of fake ones going around - but you can get a to of visitors without doing something like that?

 

200,000 hits to his website or 200,000 hits to his youtube video?

 

I think to the video - it would be hard to convert that many to your site

 

Agency.com did a viral marketing project using YouTube. Kind of a cool thing to do.

Search for something like, "agency.com subway" in the video search. There are a couple of parodies so try and find the oldest post of the video, that should be the original, it has somelike like "Part 1" in the title.

 

But how to create videos.. can somebody elaborate on this.. I mean which software ( free) and other things..

 

You Tube looks like a great traffic generator if you can produce stupid or funny amature quality videos. There seems to be an insatiable appetite out there.

Here's our first. A parody of the "Happy Feet" Little Mumble clip.

View Happy Foots

 

Just create a video with your digital camera and mention your web site and then get it on your comp. and upload it to Youtube

 

Made it to Most Viewed (Today) in Comedy

 

Congrats - How will did it convert?

 

We got a little vid up..I've only had like 220 views, but hey, that's 220 people that saw my website plug!

 

I use U-tube and Google video to promote one of my sites. So long as you brand your video well with your URL, people tend to find your site.

Stupidvideos is another good service to try--it's harder to get a video up there, but once you do you can easily get 100,000+ views.

Tom

 

Anyone else keep typing in "mytube" instead of youtube? I don't know why I keep doing that, but it sounds like a better name anyways.

 

How would you make a video for a gaming related site?

Halo 3 Trailer,

any ideas?

 

Our first observation is that you need to add a link to your website at the end of your videoto drive traffic there. Windows Movie Maker makes this pretty easy.

Second, the viral qualities of YouTube only seem to kick in if you can initiallly drive at least a couple thousand viewers to your vid the first day. we accomplished this with a link on our home page for the single day. Onece the video has been viewd a couple thousand times it gets recognized as a "most viewed" in one of the YouTube sub-categories.

We are now seeing 1000+ views/day with the plug for our website in the video.

I expect the viewer count will grow virally as more people comment and link to the video.

YouTube looks like a great alternative to MySpace marketing once you've got the logistics figured out.

 

wow great work bunnybling!