Is YouTube a potential goldmine?

EDV

EDV

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I mean....

23.5 million views for this tutorial video?


c'mon....

even TV stations can't get those numbers (unless it's the Soccer World Cup or something like that)

surely, there is a lot of potential here...

and no, I don't think Google has tapped into this potential with those annoying text Ads it puts at the beginning of the clip, I always close them without even reading them. A 10 second film clip ad works a lot better though....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVBsypHzF3U&feature=related
 
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Yeah, nothing from a professional standard. If you want to get drunk, smash out a store window while singing "God Save The Queen" while waving a pint of 'Whisky Jack" in your hand, yeah, maybe it'll net you a few thousand hits on youtube as well as a few months in jail.

Youtube is what I like to think of as 'kids stuff' . It run by kids. By Kids I mean 18 years old and under. That's youtube to me, in general. There are a few exceptions but that's my overall impression. A bunch of stupid fowl mouthed kids.

Potential goldmine? Well, if your that desperate, sure, go for it.

//Now see, if you get 1K hits on Vimeo, for example, that's worth about 1 million hits on you tube, imo. :)
 
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Potential goldmine, yes. A goldmine likely to be seen, not really. Some of the biggest youtubers make $200,000+ per year just from revenue in advertising because they're YT partners. I know Shane Dawnson and Philip DeFranco make a very nice living off of youtube from the partnership program.
 
Youtube asked me if I wanted to put ads in one of my videos (a 1 minute short film that I did and had around 4000 views). Hey I've made 80€ with it!
 
Mark Harris said:
An extremely hot young asian girl helps most situations. In my experience.
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I agree, nice face or boobs gets the views. If you are male, your still in luck, either be gay and or funny, or just show pictures of nice faces and boobs.
If you can't find pictures, or your not gay, you can still appeal to the hipster crowd or geek culture. But unfortunatly, you have to work harder to stay up to date, boobs are always in style.
 
with millions and millions of views on most of these girls videos you know shes making a pretty penny with endorsement deals
showing and using those products (and flashing websites across the screen)
 
So I wonder.....if she's actually making endorsement money because of the number of hits the video gets, do you think maybe all she does all day long is sit around clicking on her own video over and over? I know I would.
 
chapelgrovefilms said:
So I wonder.....if she's actually making endorsement money because of the number of hits the video gets, do you think maybe all she does all day long is sit around clicking on her own video over and over? I know I would.
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I know several people have tried doing that.... apparently YouTube tracks the hits and will stop your counter if they're not legit... I think 200 is the most you can get by cheating
Seriously though... wouldn't hurt to have a few million views on your last clip if you're trying to impress investors / sponsors for your next project....
On the other hand... lots of beautifully crafted videos out there that barely get 500 views...
 
Potential? It is a gold mine. About 70% of the work I've been doing over the past year is for these "YouTube celebrities" who produce content consistently for YouTube. Through the partner program, they're able to make pretty good livings off making videos for YouTube. People like Kassem G, Shay Carl, and Shane Dawson are doing really well solely using YouTube as a distribution platform. I even DP'd a short film where one of the actors was Kassem G (one of the fastest growing YouTubers), and the director and I decided to use Kassem G's role in the film as a pitch point for Kodak and Panavision. People like hearing that the film they're helping out with is going to have a guaranteed audience of over a million just from Kassem's subscriber base.

The problem is people think that to be successful on YouTube you have to generate memes, which is obviously impossible. If you look at the people who are making livings on YouTube, generally each video they release generates about 300k-500k views and they release anywhere from 3-5 videos a week. The really successful ones get 1-3 million per video. And at the going rate for views in the United States (which is like $2500-3000 per 1 million views but varies from country to country) you can see how quickly that would add up.
 
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Finnegan said:
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The problem is people think that to be successful on YouTube you have to generate memes, which is obviously impossible. If you look at the people who are making livings on YouTube, generally each video they release generates about 300k-500k views and they release anywhere from 3-5 videos a week. The really successful ones get 1-3 million per video. And at the going rate for views in the United States (which is like $2500-3000 per 1 million views but varies from country to country) you can see how quickly that would add up.
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Huh. I did not know that. I'll have to keep that in mind.
 
Memes are your basic internet phenomenon (viral videos or catch phrases). Ever heard of Antoine Dodson, the keyboard cat, or the Evolution of Dance videos? All memes. But so are the Philosoraptor, Ceiling Cat, and Pedobear. And also, "It's a trap!" and "It's over 9000!" would be memes.

Pronounced: "Meem" and not "Me-me"
 
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EDV said:
I know several people have tried doing that.... apparently YouTube tracks the hits and will stop your counter if they're not legit... I think 200 is the most you can get by cheating
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I would think IP spoofing would get around that problem. And a halfway decent programmer could write a little program that would spend all day and night spoofing the IP address and then clicking on the video. I think I could even write that code.

But to get that many hits legitmately, it takes marketing. You only have so many friends, and they only have so many friends who aren't mutual friends. Although that growth is exponential -- and COULD mushroom into huge numbers -- in most cases, you need some kind of outside publicity to drive people to your video. And that's the biggest challenge, IMHO.

For instance, I've got over 1,000 'friends' on Facebook. But promoting my movie 'Tangled Web' there and here, even at the rock-bottom price it's been at for months, has generated pitifully few leads, and even fewer sales.
 
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