Your YouTube Video Just Hit 301+ Views — What Should You Do Now?
There is a kind of panic that sets in once you realize that a video is dangerously close to hitting that coveted 301+ marker. Once a video hits 301+ and stops, it typically means YouTube’s automated system has frozen the view counter to verify that the incoming views are organic and not computer generated. 301+ [...]
5 Tips For Effective YouTube Video Descriptions
After much filming and editing, your YouTube video is ready to share with the world. Now here’s the hard part: what should you put in the description for your video? A video without a compelling description deprives viewers of context or a reason why they should watch it in the first place. Descriptions help give [...]
Creator HowToBasic Shows Off Secret ‘Fix’ To Revert YouTube Channels To Old Layout
Hate the new YouTube channel layout? So does professional lunatic HowToBasic and he/she/it is going to show you how to revert back to the old beloved layout. Since the new layout was launched earlier this year, thousands of popular YouTubers have sounded off expressing their concerns over the new layout’s emphasis on longer TV-style viewing. [...]
3 Reasons Why You Should Be Using YouTube’s Slow Motion Editing Tool
By now you’ve heard that YouTube has officially added slomo capability to their built-in video editor. Now, no matter how mundane or anti-climactic your footage is, Michael Bay-esque slow motion glory is only a click away. While an overuse of slow motion will almost certainly send your time-crunched audience packing, the new enhancement does have [...]
Hank Green Gives The Best Advice You’ll Ever Hear About Signing To A Network [VIDEO]
I think it’s safe to say that Vlog Brothers Hank and John Green are much smarter than most of us. Between writing New York Times best-selling novels, starting the largest YouTube convention in the world and co-creating “The Lizzie Bennet Diaries,” the Greens have life on lock. To add to their list of accolades, in [...]
Social Site Zeen Could Be The Next Best Way To Promote Your YouTube Videos
Almost one year ago, AVOS Systems — a company led by YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen — unveiled content curation site Zeen with little to no fanfare. With the exception of a few articles detailing the site’s mysterious origins, Zeen came into this world quietly and has stayed that way for a little [...]
You’re Doing It Wrong: How To Avoid Being A Spammer In YouTube Comments
This is going to sound very Big Brother-esque, but YouTube sort of blew it when they gave people power. By which I mean the ability to flag comments left by users under any given video. Spam on YouTube has a very loose definition, yet it undeniably plays a huge part in shaping how a comments [...]
How to Use Jump. Cuts. For. Your. YouTube. Videos.
[I thought this little how to tutorial type thing of mine should include an incredibly awesome backing track, to get everyone reading in the mood to start jump cutting your vlogs and videos like the spandex wearin', guitar blarin', long hair flarin', like a sailor swearin', old lady scarin' new media rockstar that you are] [...]
Vimeo Presents Three Tricks For Overcoming Your Small Video Crew [VIDEO]
Want to create a scene with multiple people in the background but you don’t have the resources and the crew to make it possible? A tight budget and a small film crew shouldn’t stop you from making your video. In a blog post, Vimeo wrote that they teamed up with Texas-based Neko Neko Films to [...]
Take Notes From Hollywood When Making A YouTube One Channel Trailer
“Channel Trailers,” the short videos that now act as an introduction to YouTube creators’ pages, are arguably the best part of the new channel design “One Channel.” Channel trailers have replaced the arduous task that was once convincing people to subscribe through a cocktail of cajoling and begging. Now in a “One Channel” world, asking [...]
