Benefits Of Youtube Hosting
The online world is built with many platforms to share content on. From the favourite social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and then of course there’s the platforms with more scope to produce creative content, such as Vimeo, Vine and YouTube. Of these three, YouTube is the one that the masses are more likely to be familiar with. Some of you might be wondering right now what this has to do with marketing, YouTube has a reputation for endless amounts of amateur content, but can it not be a valuable marketing tool as well?
In additional posts you might have read you’ll have seen I’ve talked about the benefits of viral videos and how larger businesses are using them to market their own products. What we’re inclined to neglect is that in order for these videos to be a triumph, they need a prominent video platform. Bonjour YouTube. The advantages of YouTube are endless, though you might not know it, there’s more to it than just being free and easy… which in itself is pretty smashing, all things considered.
YouTube focusses largely on how your video content is viewed on other online platforms. When you upload a video, you have the option to share it in at least ten different forms. The most common of these would be Facebook, Twitter, Google+… but then there’s others: Bebo, Tumblr, Reddit, Pinterest and Odnoklassniki (which, going off my five Russian lessons, is Russian – but that’s as much light as I can shed) are all on the extensive list. The analytical features on YouTube are incredibly clear and beneficial as well as allowing you to see whether you are targeting the right demographic. It is carefully assessed by age, gender, location as well as other means of analysis and is formatted in nice graphs so you can see where and who your video reaching – and be very smug when Madagascar is highlighted on the map feature, as unlikely as that is.
You might not know it, but Google has suspiciously close ties with YouTube… as a result YouTube often ranks highly in Google web results. I recently found out that YouTube is also the second largest search engine, so when you’re wandering in and out of web domains searching for the benefits of YouTube, like me, you might stumble across this video blog from Lambda Films, a Norwich online production company. It lists a few useful pros and cons when it comes to YouTube.
It highlights how a YouTube vid might appear above the web results in the Google ranks. Google will often select what can be described as quality content that, when well optimised, will rank above the web results. Thankfully, YouTube has function to tag the video with relevant subjects, in order to optimise your content, so tag to your heart’s content.
Although it’s free, it does not in any way suggest YouTube is unprofessional. Actually, it has the potential to really give your business a leg up… so I’d advise using YouTube to any online marketer.
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