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Microstock Footage Forum => General - Stock Video => Topic started by: Noedelhap on July 16, 2015, 08:41

Title: Youtube promotion of video portfolio
Post by: Noedelhap on July 16, 2015, 08:41
I want to know your thoughts on promoting your own video portfolio on YouTube, i.e. uploading watermarked comps of your footage/animations and providing a download link in the description to whichever agency you want viewers to go to (Pond5, SS, etc.)

Does it actually attract buyers or is it a useless way to promote things? I wonder if people looking to buy footage actually use YouTube to search for footage. However, if I could convince 1 or 2 potential customers to purchase one of my videos they found via YouTube, that would be worth a try.
Title: Re: Youtube promotion of video portfolio
Post by: danr13 on July 16, 2015, 08:46
It really works. And don't forget to make the links referral.
Title: Re: Youtube promotion of video portfolio
Post by: jjneff on July 16, 2015, 08:52
Works for me :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBE_cddodR4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBE_cddodR4)
Title: Re: Youtube promotion of video portfolio
Post by: danr13 on July 16, 2015, 09:32
My channel is: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHbdgCRaDIHcvD4aD_hB9Xg (http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHbdgCRaDIHcvD4aD_hB9Xg)
Title: Re: Youtube promotion of video portfolio
Post by: fritz on July 16, 2015, 09:36
Doesn't work for me! Maybe Vimeo is better place to promote sills and videos.
Title: Re: Youtube promotion of video portfolio
Post by: danr13 on July 17, 2015, 02:56
btw, if we talk about views count - for me the leader is flickr (it allows video also). There is also a very simple way to upload videos to flickr with lightroom upload plugin (it works 100% automatically including tagging etc and you should copy all the metadata to your jpegs files with exiftool to make it all happen) the minus is - flickr doesn't allow any promotion links, except just one link in your account to your marketplace page or anywhere else..