Your way to surf on YouTube ? Any tricks?

[Tatan]

For lots of people YouTube is a fun place to be on. But what is a price to start having fun? Even though there are some cool features available to help to search through millions of videos , there is high probability to bump into something of a questionable quality that is not worth our precious clicks.

Yes, there are some categories to choose from, some numbers to help, but still… I personally find that numbers indicating an amount of viewers, “Favored”, “Honors” can be deceiving.

Just make a catchy title and lots of people will fall into this trap. There are tons of other ways to bring traffic to your particular clip.
If you upload your video - Do you use any particular strategy or you let it go just without any additional help ?


YouTube is huge and everybody surf there differently. Here are some more questions:

What are you looking for on YouTube? How do you browse there? Have you developed a certain technique or you click on videos randomly?

How often do you stick to your subscription list? How big it is ?
Do you jump to most popular videos?

What are your “secrets” of your search of hidden treasures?

[coolguy27]

i just browse for my favorite music videos.... And my favorite cartoons.

I don't subscribe..

[bronz]

YouTube and video is the future and while this medium might not replace text, it will certainly hurt it.

Personally, I don't use YouTube for anything I can find on TV. I have a PVR and can digitally record any program I would otherwise miss. I know that many ppl catch up on shows and clips but frankly, the quality on my TV has yet to be rivalled by anything shown online.

What YouTube is great for (just ask Google) is the marketing potential. Firstly it has a reach of an enormously high percentage of internet surfers. Secondly, it distributes a medium that anyone involved in SEM will say is the future of online search. Thirdly, because of the virture of it being owned by Google, YouTube is a fantastic marketing platform.

Think about it. Everyone searches for text keywords now, bringing them mostly text results. People read blogs, news magazines, online journals, and even web forums like these. In a few years from though, look to video blogs, video newscasts, video journals and video forums. Even video wikipedia and video personals. People will input a text search and be presented with video results.

In fact, let me correct myself. This isn't happening in a few years; this is happening right now! Video sites like vimeo, ulinkx, metacafe, etc. are becomming immensely popular not just to the end user but the marketer as well. Viral marketing and videos are fantastic methods to encourage brand awareness and amazingly simple to do with available technology. SO while i might not use YouTube to watch Family Guy, I will for sure profit on video sites as a marketing platform and branding tool.

[seostew]

Interesting, it sounds like you work for a viral video firm and are trying to get some free market research. Not a bad idea! Haha.

Personally, I take the opinions of the editors seriously and watch the "featured videos" for I know they are screened for quality and will offer some type of entertaining and/or thought provoking value.

Just for randomness, and when I have more time, I like to check out the "most recently added." These videos are typically lower quality content-wise, but it can be fun to identifying a new video that you might able to help propel to stardom.

[swapw]

Yes, I agree with seostew. Sometimes, you just do a hit and miss deal where you either search for a topic or just check out what's the most recent. That's say you hit it big on one video, that doesn't mean your next video is going to be popular. It just really depends on people and obviously a little bit of luck too.

-Swapw

[NothingButNet]

Personally I think YouTube is a mess. I find Google Video easier to browse, because it has a category listing too. That's what I use to find YouTube videos too!

[jesse1]

I don't use youtube that much because most of the stuff on their doesn't suit my tastes.

I actually think the best way would probably be to find a site that embeds youtube movies which cater to your niche (like best YouTube bloopers)

anyways they get like 60,000 new videos per day so no wonder it is hard to find the best ones.

[dearmonica]

Personally I don't like it so much. Several times, I type the key words but always fails in seeing the lists.

I would rather use google to search.

[webprofession]

How can I save the video from youtube?

Is there any way?

[jxb10]

You can save the video by signing in and saving it to your favorites. Or you can share it, and I think email it, so you can just email it to yourself.

[sheena]

Youtube and video is now part of the SEO technique. I used Youtube just to browse and click new movies.

[Musica]

The first think I do head over youtube is scan the start page for any intresting lloking videos, once tis is done will go over my subscription list and than start searching for new videos (under music category) esp from unknown or youtube only artist

[jesse1]

youtube should have search preferences. unfortunately, it doesn't so you have to sort videos each time.