Social media marketing can be fun - after all, you're operating in the land of piano-playing cats, oversharing celebrities, and all other sorts of neat stuff. At the same time, it can be a nuisance - between Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and MySpace, plus also-rans like Bebo, there are any number of sites to cover. YouTube wants to help.
A post on the YouTube Blog explains, "As we learned in kindergarten, sharing is good. We want you to be able to do more of it with your videos. With a simple one-time log-in on our upload page, you can now have your YouTube account automatically update your Facebook friends, Twitter followers, and Google Reader shared items when you upload a video."
This should ensure that marketing messages reach the largest possible audience. Or, if you've already been diligent about linking to your YouTube videos in every possible place, the new option should save you all sorts of time.
No real commitment of any sort's required. The post states, "If you change your mind, you can shut it off at any time. And of course, for those videos that you'd rather not share, mark them as private and they won't be sent to any other site."
One last side note . . . this development may remind Conan O'Brien fans of a certain "Year 3000" line: "YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will merge to form one super time-wasting website called YouTwitFace."
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Youtube marketing has made social marketing media easy and also cheap.
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Youtube have got it right. They display ads on the bottom of the video and sometimes a short ad before the film plays. It is not intrusive in any way, the viewer can see the video without the ads being annoying in any way. Info Lowongan Kerja Terbaru
Marketing Made Easier
Whether you consider social media the greatest thing since the printing press, or yet another online time drain, no competent marketer can afford to dismiss its primary and secondary (read SEO) implications. If you choose to ignore it you do so at the peril of your business.
Techniques that spread the word while saving the time required to do so will be highly prized as the number of social media platforms continues to rise.
Thanks for the heads up, Doug.
Regards,
Timothy Scutchfield
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thanks for the great information!
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Hope some of the videos helps
All the very best
I agree with Timothy
The marketing benefits of YouTube and social media have been well discussed and they are accepted by many.
Timothy is right in pointing out that the real benefit here is the time saving that you can make in this "one post reaches all" method. We will see more of this cross-site integration. Sadly, Conan will be right too!
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Youtube have got it right. They display ads on the bottom of the video and sometimes a short ad before the film plays. It is not intrusive in any way, the viewer can see the video without the ads being annoying in any way.
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You tube is definitely the way to go. It gives me traffic both on YouTube and google. Thanks so much for sharing the information!
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Thanks for the great dicussion! One more little tip: leave your youtube comment open. This way, you get backlinks each time people comment on your video. Don't worry about spam too much because if it goes really bad the YouTube team will remove them anyway.
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