Thursday, March 7, 2013

YouTube Marketing Tips and Tricks

YouTube has emerged a very powerful Social Media tool. With approximately 13 hours of video per minute uploaded, this gets to right audience.  Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the world’s most popular online video community, allowing millions of people to discover watch and share originally-created videos.
Listed below are a few marketing ideas on how to attract your audience to get an idea on your product.
It is very important to define your goals clearly.  What is the purpose of this communication? Is it to build a brand name? Get people into your store or restaurant? Define your objective and then revisit it after your ad is done to see if the video achieves your goal.
With so many other things in the users mind, his attention span is very less - you get just 8 seconds or less to get your point across. Simple, concise ads work best for online marketing.
Visuals in a video ad should not only be eye catching, they should communicate a relevant message. Remember, clean, simple graphics are more likely to catch the eye of the viewer– An important first step toward clickthrough and purchase.
Direct your advertisement to the appropriate and interested audience. Work with an online ad service that offers targeting to place your ad.
Make sure to offer viewers a call-to-action at the end of the ad (“Click here to learn more” or “stop by our store”).
Once you’ve created your video ad, you now have to place it on the sites with the highest quality audiences. Your options in this scenario are:
  • Use an all-in-one ad creation and placement service
  • Contact a standalone video ad network to place your ad
  • Work directly with Web publishers who sell video ad inventory, though that is the most complicated scenario, as you’ll have to research each individual site to find out about their reach, audience and rates
Once you create your Video, use the A/B method to experiment with different creative, formats and messages to find the combination that works the best. Set aside a portion of your budget to test different approaches so you can see how response rates fluctuate when you change the visuals, call-to-action, price points or add a promotional offer.

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