How To Improve Engagement on Your Facebook Brand Page
Have a fan or brand page on Facebook but not getting the engagement you were wishing for? Well, tough luck because your brand probably sucks, is what an unhelpful jerk would say, but luckily for you I’m not totally unhelpful. Read on for insightful advice from the folks at Facebook (sorta), and then Wildfire Interactive [...]
3 YouTube Tips You Probably Didn’t Know
1. FREE Money To Advertise Your YouTube Video Yup, you read that right, YouTube recently announced that Google is giving away $50 million in advertising for Google Adwords. What this basically means is that Google is giving you free money to set up ads where you can target your audience and drive traffic to a [...]
7 Tips When Requesting Collaborations
I’ve been sending out Tweets lately regarding what my next article should be about, and it seems the trending question is “How do I ask big YouTubers to collaborate?” Obviously, the main reason you’d want to do that is to use their larger audience to get more exposure for yourself. However, how do you convince [...]
5 Tips For Beginning YouTube Artists
With the rapidly growing New Media industry, many artists and brands are looking towards YouTube to build their image. Whether you’re looking to use YouTube as a platform to build and become a mainstream artist, or simply create a channel that generates stable ad revenue, here are 5 tips that may help you on your [...]
Top 5 Mistakes New Media Artists Make
I’ve been in the New Media business for a good while now. I’ve seen a good amount of artists go from being a no-name, to being some of the most viewed individuals on the Internet. From these experiences, I’ve also seen a lot more hopeful artists fail in developing their brand via social media. While [...]
Are Your YouTube Videos Funny? Google Robot Says, “01001110”
Google recently set out to try to quantify what makes a video funny. Finally, will the longstanding mystery that is RayWilliamJohnson’s perceived funniness be solved? I wouldn’t bet on it. Late last year, Google tried to quantify and rank musical talent in videos. Yeah, so much good your impossibly complex machine nincompoopery accomplished there, Google, [...]
+1 Your Way to Search Result Relevancy
Are you a new media artist or brand that’s also looking for your pages to show up at the top of search result pages? Duh. Chances are that if you’re the former, you’re also the latter. After all, showing up early and often in search engine results is an indication of popularity. Remember the classic thought experiment: if [...]
3 Ways to get Youtube Money (Aside from AdSense)
One of the main things I think YouTube artists have to realize is the value of their audience. You carry an audience that can potentially tailor to a specific niche that is more valuable then Adsense in the long run. Because of that, here are 3 ways you can monetize your YouTube channel aside from [...]
The Art of Taking Instagram Photos
With its many different filters, the Instagram app can turn any photo into a work of art. Whether it’s taking a picture of an ominous rain cloud hovering over a wintry morning or kicking your feet up after a grueling day of hiking in the desert, capturing a frame-worthy photo on a mobile phone has [...]
Managing Social Media For A Celebrity
Phil Pallen is a Social Media Designer based in Los Angeles, managing brands for celebrity and high-profile clients throughout North America. I’ll be honest — I have a pretty cool job.Everyday, I get to work with clients from different places, industries and walks of life. Some of my clients are pretty big players in the [...]
