I am looking at some youtube videos with 5-digit views and I am thinking is it a good way to promote your website or not? What is your experience with youtube in this matter? Is there a video provider you have used and could recommend?
It is especially if you turnaround a video within 48 hours e.g. hit 100k+ within 48 hours, you get an offer by youtube for partnership or even honors. This will rank you in Google's top on top of being one of the most viewed videos throughout youtube you can only imagine the amount of traffic and target/focus on your video which will then spread to your site. I can help you by selling 500k views at $400USD but this will take about 1 month to complete if you want results in 48 hours, I sell 100k views at $850USD per 100k because of the traffic blast within that 48 hours it's insane the amount of money you have to invest to receive but the results are priceless.
We have found that YouTube promotion and for use on tutorial videos are very effective. You are able to get a huge number of people to watch your sales pitch 24/7, would definitely recommend investing some time into.
youtube is a great way of promoting your products, specially if its a good video, what i would suggest is... submitting the video a few times from a few different accounts, with different tags and keywords in the youtube video description as this will enhance your search results on youtube, then its all about getting as many views, ratings and comments make sure there is annotation links to your website
Promotion through youtube takes a long time and a lot of work. Currently I have around 400 videos on youtube - its taken me almost 4 years to get to this point. My youtube channel - http://www.youtube.com/survivalistboards I make all of my own videos, do all of my own filming and editing. I wish I would had invested the money for a good camera 2 years ago, and learned how to get the most out of the video editing software earlier. As a result, a lot of my early videos are grainy and poor quality. On of the things about youtube, you HAVE to do something different then what everyone else in your niche is doing.