Is There Such Thing As The YouTube Alternative?
by boydhoffmann on 01/01/10 at 11:35 am
Why would anyone look for a YouTube Alternative website? According to
Alexa YouTube is currently #4 in the overall world ranking in terms of “popular” websites. So it makes perfect sense to spend ones time and efforts getting familiar with YouTube and marketing like crazy using their service.
Then why look for an alternative to YouTube when it comes to marketing?
When something is popular conventional wisdom would say it must be a great place to market and a great opportunity to reach a large number of people quickly. However along with popularity comes competition.
So it is easier said than done when it comes to gaining a marketing presence on YouTube. It will take patience and a consistent effort on your part to carve out your YouTube real estate and create a lasting presence their.
Why then seek out a YouTube alternative?
Because it is better to go wide within your online marketing strategy versus going deep. You need to distribute your videos on as many sites as possible. But most importantly your buyers are still on those other sites, just not as many of them.
1. viddler.com
2. video.yahoo.com
3. veoh.com
4 vidlife.com
5. blip.tv
6. revver.com
7. spike.com
8. tangle.com
9. megavideo.com
10. bofunk.com
Spend some time doing Keyword research and using the alternative sites to
YouTube. Just make sure that you distribute your videos on as many alternative sites as possible so that you will generate as much (and possibly more) traffic than if you were to just market on YouTube alone.
A great solution to being able to distribute your videos quickly and with little to no effort is by getting your hands on a service called Traffic Geyser. With one simple upload to there system you will be able to distribute your single video across all of the major web 2.0 video sites.
Saving you all that time it would take to log in manually one by one and submitting it on your own. But that is just the basics of what Traffic Geyser can do.
It is in my opinion a must have for anyone who is serious about video marketing and taking their production to the next level.
