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6 Ways to Promote Youtube Video and Get More Views

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Last updated on March 28, 2023

How to Promote YouTube Video? Videos are mostly the preferred form of entertainment and have taken over the internet by storm so riding this trend is a smart move.  You may be good at creating good Youtube Videos but unless you promote there is no meaning to it and it will not reach the masses.  In this post, we share 6 ways to Promote Youtube Video.  Read on…

On YouTube, it’s tough for new video creators to start and compete with the veterans.

Viewers expect high-quality videos regarding the visual aspect and the commentary alike. Going out there with stiff competition can be hard to surpass, however, many tricks will help a small channel bring the word out.

And once your video is out there, the counting starts.

In this post, we will assume that you’ve already done your market research and has a solid plan for what kind of videos you will make.

If not, then read this post on how to make a profitable YouTube video channel will give you ideas on the best videos to create.

Now, to promote your videos and improve your ROI we’ve collected some ways that you can implement them on your own.

 

Promote Youtube Video

Foolproof methods to promote Youtube video

Optimize your title

YouTube is the second-largest search engine in the world next to Google.

The first thing people look at on the result is the title – a title that answers their question.

Also, optimized titles enable YouTube to understand what your video is about so they can show it to people who are interested.

Just make sure to have what your title says on your video. Otherwise, YouTube may think that your headline is misleading and may tag it as spam. Worse is getting a tainted reputation.

Create high-quality thumbnails

See the difference in quality in the following thumbnail images we created at different intervals.

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Random thumbnails are no longer a thing on YouTube, not unless you don’t want to get more views and subscribers.

Therefore, clear and high-quality thumbnails are a must.

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According to Hubspot, close-up faces, text overlays, and brightly colored backgrounds are some of the most effective elements of a YouTube thumbnail.

These are what works best for some successful channels, but you can always experiment with whatever floats your boat as long as you keep it consistent.

Remember that consistent branding will increase your brand recognition and will set you apart from others out there.

Use keyword-rich description

 

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Image Courtesy Moz.com

 

As mentioned, YouTube is a search engine specifically for videos, so SEO on YouTube matters, and keywords can play a vital role in getting more views

If you ignore the space provided for your description and tags, you are doing your channel a disservice.

YouTube is a search engine specifically for videos so SEO matters and keywords are vital to read more at #pvariel Share on X

If you’re not sure where to start, here’s an excellent guide for ranking on YouTube using descriptions and tags.

Find niche communities on other platforms

More websites are video-sharing-friendly so make sure to utilize them to get higher engagement rates and views. And referrals from other sites can boost your video’s ranking too.

Find and share your videos on niche communities that are relevant to your video. While YouTube gets a ton of organic traffic on their site alone, millions of other people are also active elsewhere.

Visibility is how you get your video views organically.

Even though Facebook now favors videos hosted on them, you can still join specific Facebook groups that are dedicated to the subject of your video.

Also, Twitter users love videos.

Reach out to influencers

Influencers within your niche can help you promote your video too!

If you have an original and high-quality video, there are bloggers and YouTubers out there who are very willing to share your video with their readers even without you asking.

In reaching out to these influencers, it’s usually a great idea to start off by introducing yourself and share your thoughts about their content. But honestly, it’s going to be easier if you’ve already developed a relationship with them from the start. So if you haven’t yet, now is the time to do so.

There will come a time when reaching out to influencers is, well, out of your reach. However, this should not prevent you from imposing your will and becoming an influencer yourself.

One of the parameters that contribute to the growing influence of a Youtube personality is views.

Therefore, you may want to consider finding places where you can buy Youtube views and build your influence from there.

The more views your videos have, the more people will acknowledge your channel and check it out themselves.

Create AdWords campaign

Promoting a YouTube video organically can go a long way, but if you want a quick boost to your views and visibility, a paid advertisement is always readily available.

Set aside some of your budgets to doing paid advertisements through Google AdWords. Through this, you can push your videos to people who are already active on YouTube. Your ad will surface on the search results, on the sidebar of videos, and within the duration of other videos.

Google AdWords is a powerful tool that will rake in great results as long as you know how to use it effectively.

Nobody said it’s easy to promote Youtube videos!

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But damn everyone else if it isn’t the most rewarding experience for content creators like yourself see your videos reach thousands of views, if not millions!

The more views your videos have, the more people will acknowledge your channel and check it out themselves. Share on X

With all of these ways to promote YouTube videos, it won’t be useful if your video itself can’t satisfy your viewers’ entertainment and information needs.

3 Reasons Why Video Is The Future Of Content Marketing

Whether it’s a funny clip on Instagram, a short intro clip in an email, or a video wrap-up from a networking event, video content is one of the most effective ways of capturing and engaging your audience.

From higher rates of information retention to getting more information across in a short space of time, there are many benefits to incorporating video into your marketing strategy. Below, we dig into some of the main perks of investing in video and we share best practices for getting started right away. Read More Misssinglettr…

So make sure to have the right combination of these tips we’ve mentioned above and high-quality video content!

Check out this informative infographic on Making Money From YouTube:

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Source:  Infographic:  AllTechMedia.Org

Infographic developed by AlltechMedia

Last updated on  Jan 4, 2021

Updated on March 29, 2019.

Published on: Jul 20, 2018.

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49 Comments

  1. Thanks, Chris for yet another wonderful and valuable share for the readers of Philipscom. :-) :-)
    Welcome board. I appreciate your valuable time.
    Take Care.
    Love
    ~ Phil

    July 20, 2018
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  2. It’s a pleasure writing these posts on your blog, Philip! Hope you’ll have me for as long as possible.

    July 20, 2018
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  3. sagar
    sagar

    explained nicely to promote youtbe links. thanks for sharing keep it up.

    July 21, 2018
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  4. Jagdish Adhikari
    Jagdish Adhikari

    Hi Christopher,

    Great post on “6 Ways to Promote Youtube Video and Get More Views”.
    Your post will really help us to promote our Videos on Youtube.
    I will also recommend your blogs in my network.

    Thanks
    Jagdish Adhikari

    July 21, 2018
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  5. Igor
    Igor

    I compose songs and post the videos on Youtube abd I do use Adwords sometimes to promote these. It’s not expensive at all and does provide me with views and some feedbacl from viewers. So I agree, it’s a good way to boost views, however it may take a lot of time to understand how Adworks works and all the confusing terms and settings.

    July 22, 2018
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  6. Nimesh Talsaniya
    Nimesh Talsaniya

    Hi, You are a good content writer. Your contents are most informative and worth bookmarks let ones. Its really worth reading and important for every readers online. I love reading such articles. I hope everyone at Philipscom loves this article like me. The tips you shared are worth usable for getting more views. Thanks for these tips.
    Keep writing more such effective articles.

    July 23, 2018
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  7. Nithin
    Nithin

    Thanks for sharing this informative post here. You are running a great blog with a lot of valuable information to the online community. I appreciate your time for compiling different authors resources over here. keep up the good work. Will come again to read more. Keep sharing.
    ~ Nithin

    July 24, 2018
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  8. Hi
    Christopher,
    Creating and uploading videos for YouTube is a kind of funny task, but without a decent amount of views and likes the video is not going to be profitable. The tips provided in this post will surely help in promoting YouTube videos in a right way. And, I am sure these tips will helps Youtubers to get more views and likes.

    Thanks for sharing this post with us.

    Have a great day ahead.
    Praveen Verma

    July 25, 2018
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  9. Hi Christopher, great tips.

    I strongly agree with you regarding the part of keyword rich description. The best way to promote YouTube videos is to focus on keyword optimization so you can get long lasting traffic to your videos from YouTube or Google search.

    Once you’ve found a set of useful keywords to use within your YouTube video title and description, make sure to check if there’s enough search volume for that keyword. Because there’s no point of finding keywords that have no search volume.

    As a rule of thumb pick those keywords for your videos within the search volume of 500 searches a month so you can get first page results either on YouTube or Google easily.

    I also liked the tip on connecting with influencers to promote your videos to get more visibility online. Just make sure to find micro influencers instead of asking guys with too many subscribers (most of them don’t even care as they come across such email pitches or messages almost daily). So finding micro influencers with decent subscribers to help you promote your channel or videos can be helpful.

    Thanks Philip for publishing this great guest post, keep up the great work guys.

    July 26, 2018
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  10. Dinesh Rana
    Dinesh Rana

    Nice information thanks for sharing this. Very helpful article. The different ways you shared in this post is very useful.
    Keep writing
    Dinesh Rana

    August 6, 2018
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  11. Rishav Kumar
    Rishav Kumar

    Nice tricks for promoting YouTube videos.
    Great work. Thanks for sharing these valuable tricks.
    Keep sharing

    August 7, 2018
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  12. Jill Tanner
    Jill Tanner

    Awesome! It is really actionable tips to get our brand name out on Youtube. but I want to ask which niches current are bang on youtube.

    August 24, 2018
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  13. Hi Christopher,

    Your article is informative and since YouTube is the go-to channel for videos. Even though I haven’t broken into the video marketing space, it is vital to know these tips and be updated for what’s to come. Bytheway, I love the infographic as well.

    March 30, 2019
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  14. Blogging Team
    Blogging Team

    Hi, thank you for the informative article. The idea which you are shared is really awesome. It will be helpful to all youtube promoters. Most of all the articles which you are published is really helpful.

    April 2, 2019
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  15. Hey Christopher,
    great list on promoting YouTube videos.
    All tips are great and they best work in conjunction, you agree?
    Finally I’d like to add another tip. Use hashtags your competitors and popular videos use. When you do that, you’re going to appear more often in the video sidebar, thus driving passive traffic.
    It’ svideo promotion at scale.

    April 13, 2019
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  16. RH Mahadi
    RH Mahadi

    I am trying to grow my youtube channel from a long time. But the tips in this article will help me much. thanks for sharing such kind of posts.

    August 24, 2020
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  17. Shailendra kumar
    Shailendra kumar

    Thanks for such a wonderful article about promoting youtube videos to get a more views.
    These tips are very good to follow. I appreciate you for sharing such a valuable information to your readers. It’s very helpful to all new youtubers.
    Thanks for posting Christopher’s content here.

    August 24, 2020
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  18. piyush bhardwaj
    piyush bhardwaj

    hey, this blog will definitely help u to promote my youtube videos.thanks for sharing such a valuable content with us.

    August 24, 2020
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  19. Emma Drew
    Emma Drew

    These are great tips! I’ve grown my channel to 16k subscribers and I love finding new ways to serve them. Thank you for sharing

    August 25, 2020
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  20. Biplob Halder
    Biplob Halder

    The ways to make promoting YouTube videos, you told us are all very important.Thank you so much for sharing this valuable article.
    I am so glad that I found this vital post on world wide web.
    Great share.

    August 25, 2020
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  21. Reji Stephenson
    Reji Stephenson

    Hi Chris and Ariel Sir,

    Thanks for coming up with yet another very useful topic as Youtube and visual media are the most recent trend in the online world. I think connecting with online influencers is one of the cost-effective ways for promoting video contents. Anyway thanks once again for the great share. Hoping to come back and read more updates soon.

    Reji Stephenson

    August 26, 2020
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    • Hi Reji,
      What a pleasant surprise!
      Hope everything is well with you all at UK?
      Thanks for dropping by good to watch your new YouTube venture. All the Good Wishes. Keep informed. Already subscribed. Keep sharing.
      Best
      ~ Phil

      August 27, 2020
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  22. Mr. Biswas
    Mr. Biswas

    You have written a good post, I have loved reading your post and got to learn something new. thanks for sharing this useful article.
    The 6 ways/points shared here is worth following. I am sure it will increase our views and watchtime.
    Thanks a lot for these great tips.

    August 26, 2020
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  23. Biplob Halder
    Biplob Halder

    It’s very informetive informetion about promoting you tube video.thank you soo much for sharing this article.

    August 26, 2020
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  24. Sam
    Sam

    I’m just starting out on YouTube and looking for some inspiration and tips for building my audience. It seems very different than what I am used to and of course, using a Google algorithm that is like solving the puzzle of life! Fab tips, bookmarked for later on.

    August 31, 2020
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  25. Claire
    Claire

    Thanks for sharing all these tips. I made a Youtube with the intention of making more of it but it hard to find the courage to post that first video.

    September 2, 2020
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  26. Mindstick
    Mindstick

    YouTubNow gives users the possibility to convert and store their favorite YouTube videos.

    September 3, 2020
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  27. Mohamed
    Mohamed

    Thanks for putting out. Youtbe videos are hard to promote sometimes and following these methods, people can see some difference. Amazing one man, truly like it.

    September 4, 2020
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  28. Peter Williams
    Peter Williams

    Excellent and helpful post… I am so glad to left comment on this. This has been a so interesting. I appreciate your effort…

    September 24, 2020
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  29. Mark
    Mark

    Hi!
    First of all, thank you so much for sharing such an amazing and helpful post with us. I searched for some helpful blogs to promote my youtube videos and suddenly found your post on the internet. I read your entire post and found it very informative. I love the way you have explained everything. Thanks, and keep sharing.

    July 16, 2021
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  30. Talya Stone
    Talya Stone

    I find YouTube one of the hardest platforms to be seen on. I probably need to make some tweaks so will try some of the above – thanks for the tips!

    July 19, 2021
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  31. Mehransard Aranads
    Mehransard Aranads

    Thanks for putting out. Youtube videos are hard to promote sometimes and following these methods, people can see some difference. Amazing one man, truly like it. I am bookmarking it for my further study.

    July 19, 2021
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  32. Ikpabi Sunday
    Ikpabi Sunday

    Great and valuable information you shared in this post on promoting our video contents.
    Great tips to follow. I will surely follow these tips and will come back to you with the results. Keep sharing

    July 22, 2021
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  33. John Dow
    John Dow

    Hello,
    This is so great and valuable share. Actually i was also looking for such type of material that will help me to promote my youtube videos as soon as possibe. The ways you told us to make promoting youtube videos are very important and helpful for all of us. Thanks a lot for sharing your valuable thoughts with us. I am glad to reach you and feeling blessed to found this useful post on world wide web.
    Thanks again.

    August 9, 2021
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  34. Youtube is the most trending way to interact and promote effectively. But using the same wisely is more important. Great tips to follow. I’ll get back to you after implementing.

    September 22, 2021
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  35. Aayushi Prakash
    Aayushi Prakash

    It was a wonderful time while going through your article and I’ve got what I was looking for

    I’m so glad you chose to share this article. It’s given me a ton of great information that I need for myself, but it was just too hard trying to find everything on Google.
    For beginners, this is a well-defined and quite instructive site. Thank you for sharing this information in such a straightforward yet beautiful manner.

    Wish you all the best for your future endeavours. Once again, thank you for your valuable tips and ideas helping freshers like us. I will surely share this beautiful piece of article with my peers and people who actually need guidance.

    September 23, 2021
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  36. Brianb Parsazadeh
    Brianb Parsazadeh

    Good article, I actually always faced this issue that I made a good video and it actually ranked high on youtube but then lost position after a month or two. Thanks for sharing the vital points in relation to Youtube video and its promotions.

    October 3, 2021
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  37. TechyJeev
    TechyJeev

    I obsolutely agree with you regarding the part of the keyword-rich description.

    The best way to promote YouTube videos is to focus on keyword optimization so you can get long-lasting traffic to your videos from YouTube or Google searches.

    I work as SEO developer key words are always best to promote you channel in online.

    Thanks, for publishing this great contnet.

    October 4, 2021
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  38. Mark Smith
    Mark Smith

    Hello Philip

    Mark Smith here
    Thank you very much for this YouTube Video information….especially in regards to It being a search engine-driven platform. And that we need keywords planted in those videos, for our specific niche. I’m in the process of putting together a series of video, and coming to your blog has already helped me in some directions that I wish to go.
    Thanks Again

    Mark Smith

    October 4, 2021
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  39. Fay
    Fay

    Hello. I think, YouTube becomes more popular nowadays especially for making money. Many people, including me, always search how to make a video trending and gets many views. This article is very helpful for us and everyone who wants to grow a YouTube Channel. Good Job, Philips, Thank You very much.

    October 19, 2021
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  40. James Knights
    James Knights

    I like it a lot! A good number of tips are shared in this post about promoting YouTube videos to get more views as well as watch hours.
    Connect on social media. Very informative post. Keep sharing.

    January 23, 2022
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  41. James Knights
    James Knights

    Thanks for taking the time to share!

    January 23, 2022
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  42. Great job Christopher. Agreed; promoting YT videos is not easy. But if you are willing to publish helpful video content and also hit those keywords in the description field you can market these videos effectively. A few of my videos seem to be taking off just a little bit from 100s to 1000s of views quite fast. You never quite know when things will take off but following each of these tips allows you to reap the spoils of smart self-promotion.

    Ryan
    Ryan K Biddulph recently posted…7 Blogging Money StrugglesMy Profile

    January 27, 2022
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    • Hi, Ryan,
      what a pleasant surprise to see you again after a gap.
      Hope you are doing well. Yes, Ryan, I too agree with you the appropriate keywords in the description as well as in the title can do wonders with our uploaded videos.
      Thanks again for your valuable time to drop in.
      With all good wishes from Phil

      January 27, 2022
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  43. SharlaAnn Matyjanka
    SharlaAnn Matyjanka

    Hello Christopher
    I only have a couple of YT videos currently but as my knowledge and understanding of SEO grows I know I have some work to do on the optimization.

    These are some great tips, thank you.

    And Philip, Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier.

    SharlaAnn
    SharlaAnn Matyjanka recently posted…WordPress Plugins for Beginner BloggersMy Profile

    January 28, 2022
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  44. Jake Smith
    Jake Smith

    Thanks, Christopher it’s been four months since I have started my channel. I was being so worried that how will I promote my channel and you have helped me a lot in that matter thru this post.
    I appreciate your time with us.

    January 29, 2022
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  45. Smith Joe
    Smith Joe

    Excellent blog! Thank you for sharing amazing tips to promote youtube video.

    September 1, 2022
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  46. Shrawan Choudhary
    Shrawan Choudhary

    Hi Philip,
    I have been trying to get more traffic for my YouTube videos, and I think after reading your post. I will be able to achieve that.
    Thanks for the great share.
    Have a good week ahead.

    September 13, 2022
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