Live Stream With YouTube

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Live Stream With YouTube

I just love YouTube. Now we can all Live Stream With Youtube which is amazing.

I have been using YouTube since it started in 2005, I don’t think I ever imagined it would be as it is today.

I have found this great article and also video online that I wanted to bring to you all today. The video will help you to setup and run your own YouTube Live Stream event.
YouTube Opens a Whole New World for You so if you are not using YouTube as yet to promote, yourself, your product or business then you really need to get that sorted.

Why should you care about getting your videos on YouTube?

You can be sure that a size-able portion of your audience is on YouTube. YouTube is reporting 3 billion hours of video streamed per day. And you can now broadcast live, inside of that stream. Who wouldn’t want a piece of that for their business?

Live YouTube streaming is not just on a computer platform. Most modern smartphones can take a YouTube live stream and more and more smart television sets are coming with that capacity as well.

Not only can you partner with the biggest video network in the world, but you can also broadcast, through them, to every screen that can take a live Internet video feed. Google’s billions in profit is making that possible for you.

Live streaming, even free, is not new to the Internet. But it’s now much easier and allows all of us including businesses the opportunity to reach a wider audience by integrating live streaming into their marketing plan.

Consider your live-streaming content options.

Spend some time to find the right live-streaming strategy to suit your personality and needs. You are about to share your video content on a social media platform that could potentially bring lots of exposure to you and your business.

In addition to live streaming while you are directly in front of the camera, you can also share your desktop content.

Does the idea of a camera pointed at your face broadcasting to the world scare you bit? Don’t worry. There are a variety of tools that exist to help you.

For example, you can use a PowerPoint presentation or a Keynote slide deck to share content on your desktop during your live-streaming broadcast.

And you’re not even limited to these pricey office suites. Products like Prezi or Mind Mapping products all make for compelling screen presentations.

Embedded below is a quick video that shows the live broadcasting process using the free Google Docs Presentation app.

Don’t let your fear of the camera get in the way

5 Steps to Stream Live on YouTube

Here’s what you need to do.

Step 1: Log into Google+. If you want to broadcast as yourself, stay in your own personal stream. If you’d like to stream as one of the Google+ pages you administer, switch to that page.

Step 2: Click the “Start a hangout” button. At the time of this writing, that button is in the upper right-hand side of the screen; but as Google is always updating Google+, the position might change.

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The “Start a hangout” button is hard to miss.

Step 3: Check the “Enable Hangouts On Air” checkbox in the “Start a Hangout” screen. This simple checkbox tells Google that you want to simultaneously broadcast your Hangout on YouTube.

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Check the “Enable Hangouts On Air” checkbox.

Step 4: Verify With Google That All Is OK. If it is your first time with Hangouts On Air, you’ll need to link your account with the appropriate YouTube channel and promise Google you won’t abuse the system. They’ll walk you through everything.

confirm channel

YouTube will confirm with you what channel you will be broadcasting on.

Step 5: Click the “Start broadcast” button on the screen. Once this is done, you’re live on YouTube. As an added bonus, you’ll have a link and an embed code that you can share through all of the other social networks.

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The “Start broadcast” button and “Embed” link are right next to each other.

You’re now live! Say something awesome—the world is watching.

Make This About YouTube, Not Google+

Technically you’re broadcasting on both Google+ and YouTube. So it would be a tremendous marketing mistake to only focus on the Google+ side of things.

First let’s take a look at what happens on Google+. Anyone who has circled you or the page you are broadcasting from on Google+ will automatically see your Hangout in their streams.

But you want to leverage your social media platforms more than this. Don’t forget those who haven’t circled you on Google+!

The reality today is that the majority of your social media audience is more likely to follow a link to a YouTube page than anything else. So offer them one.

Use the YouTube Embed links mentioned in Step 5 above and share it throughout your social networks.

The choice of which platform to share with your audience, Google+ or YouTube, isn’t about which social network is considered best. It’s simply about marketing and positioning your content.

The brand recognition of YouTube surpasses Google+ many times over and the bigger the platform you are associated with, the bigger the impact that association is going to make.

Take Advantage of the Great SEO Value

You get a bonus the second you end your broadcast. YouTube will start encoding your broadcast to archive it on your YouTube channel. This is great because over time, you’ll build up a library of content and this archive is there forever.

YouTube does the first step of putting your live broadcast video automatically in your YouTube archive for you. But you’ll still want to retitle the video and add a good description and tags to optimize your video for search.

Of course you can choose to delete your video. But I recommend you don’t, because the more videos you or your brand has on YouTube, the better. Over time, you’re sure to appreciate the SEO value of building your video archive on this powerful social media platform.

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The etón Corporation YouTube channel has 15 playlists, 42 videos, 5,282 subscribers and 379,952 video views. They’ve spent considerable time and effort creating great content (they do very well from search engine traffic). Do one live show a week for a year and you’ll have more content than they do.

What do you think? Does the ability to broadcast to the world on YouTube change your streaming video strategies? Is there a reason why you haven’t added it yet? Comment in the box below and let’s get this discussion going!

 

About the Author, Paul Colligan

Paul Colligan helps busy people leverage new media to get their message out to more people, with less effort, and for greater profit. Other posts by »

 


I am sure you will agree an excellent article and video to help you all become famous :-) on YouTube by running your own live streaming shows.

Give it a go, Hope to see you online hosting your own Live Stream With Youtube.

 

 

 

 

How to Use Youtube Annotations

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How to Use Youtube Annotations

I am sure you all know the importance of Youtube these days in your marketing, the issue is to get people to subscribe  and also to be able to update videos easily when something might change, this is where YouTube Annotations come in. So today I am going to show you how to use Youtube Annotations to add a subscribe button to your videos, and also below discuss some other great uses for the Youtube Annotations.

Lots of people have no idea how to do this so here goes…. before I get you to watch the video the YouTube Annotations option is amazing you can use it for all sorts of things. Let me give you some ideas:

  • Add a message inside video
  • Add your website address
  • Add Phone number or contact details
  • Add a comment
  • Add a link so people can be sent some where else
  • Add  a text watermark
  • Now let me expand on these ideas…
  • Add a message inside the video:

If you want to get a message across to people you might talk about on the video you can also add the message there to rein force what you just said. It’s a great way to add reminders. You can make the message as long as you want, but I would be inclined to keep it short and sweet.

Add your Website address:

If you look on Youtube you will find 1000′s of videos with no links no under the video and none even in the video itself. With the new layout of the Youtube you will need to keep this in mind and be more vigilant in making sure you have your web address or URL on the video itself.

 

Add Phone number or contact details:

If you don’t have a website, or you want people to do something else like call you, or visit you at your place you can add in this as well. And as you will see in the video you can drag it out and make it show on the screen for as long as you need to.


Add a comment:

Really same as above in the add a message. The good news is if something changes and you don’t want to change the video then you can go in and just add an annotation. It’s just brilliant.

Add a link so people can be sent some where else:

I love the fact that you can send people to either another video, your channel, subscribe page and a few other options in there, it’s excellent so if you have a series of videos on a topic then you can send people from one to the next one, that is sheer genius.


Add  a text watermark:

I am not sure if you have had people steal your videos but I have, so I make sure I make it as hard as possible for them to do that. I am not talking about taking my video and putting it on their site I am talking about copying it using Camtasia or something like it and then putting their own details on it. Grrrr anyway to stop that it’s a good idea to add comments or web address’s in places where it makes it hard to get them out of. So think about how you going to do that, now not every video of yours will be taken and ripped off but some generic ones you may have had made for you can be. So if you don’t have Camtasia then use the annotations to slow the people down abit. It won’t stop them totally but it’s a start.

I have started to use this as a watermark as most do not want a picture of me sitting in there video so this works quite well, the other thing that works well is putting your web address in as a watermark. In saying that you would need to use a program like Camtasia to do it for you. The You Tube Annotations does not really do as good a job as this picture, but as I said it’s a good start.

So here goes the Video:

How to Use Youtube Annotations To Add A Subscribe Button

 

Something you need to understand and realise is that if you bring the video from YouTube into your website or if someone else takes your video from YouTube and puts it on their site the Annotations don’t go through on the video. So best to make sure your important stuff :-) is already in the video like your web address etc. Annotations is for veiwing in Youtube. But at any rate they are fantastic tool to use, so thank you Youtube.

Hope that had some useful information for you and you can use it to grow your Subscribers and also to send traffic to where ever you need to send it.If you are looking for more posts on Youtube then I have a few written and there will be more coming as Youtube changes over. So more Youtube goodies.

That ends the lesson on How to Use Youtube Annotations.

 

3 New YouTube Changes

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3 New YouTube Changes

I just love Youtube, it has been a great source of traffic for me over the years. In December Youtube did some upgrades, changed the look and feel, I am not sure I like it as much but hey, it’s a free service and I can get videos ranked pretty quick using it. So I guess I have to adapt and change.

I found this great article for the Social Media Examiner – 3  New YouTube Changes and What They Mean for Businesses and so decided I would share it with you all as it’s a really great article with tips along the way, and of course pictures which is always helpful. With so many people viewing videos and also searching youtube for answers to problems then Youtube is the place to be.

I recently did a webinar with Mynders all about videos and how easy it is with the right gear. You might want to check out the webinar right here.

So important to use video so please get your act together and start to use it. The you can get an account open up in Youtube and go present, your company, your product or service to the world. It’s up to you to make it happen.

 

Are you thinking about doing more with YouTube?

In December of 2011, YouTube unveiled their latest design and navigational changes to the world.

Although it was met with unbridled criticism from a virtual mob of YouTube fanatics, these changes are here to stay.

Embrace YouTube’s recent makeover and their vision for the future of online entertainment. Change is good, right?

This article will only cover the three major changes that may affect your online strategy. If you want to stay on top of your video marketing game in 2012, these are the only three changes that you need to focus on.

Ready? Here we go!

#1: New YouTube Home Page

YouTube's new home page

YouTube’s new home page offers a new Subscription Feed function.

YouTube has changed their design to follow a much more clean and modern look.

A quick peek at the home page will reveal that quite a bit of rearranging has been done. Instead of showcasing the most popular and trending videos on the website, YouTube has now prominently positioned a “Subscription Feed” smack-dab in the middle of the page.

Note: You must be logged in to see this properly.

This “Subscription Feed” (which bears an uncanny resemblance to Facebook’s Live Feed), now features the latest video content and updates from your subscribers.

In an effort to provide a better, more relevant user experience for viewers, YouTube is behaving more like a social-networking site than ever before. But what does this mean for you?

Until now, the “cute baby” and “shockingly embarrassing caught-on-tape” videos have dominated YouTube with millions of views from your bored co-workers looking for a quick distraction from their day. Most of us have discredited YouTube as a legitimate traffic source or brand-builder for our businesses because let’s face it, creating randomly hilarious videos probably isn’t your forte! And that’s OK, because things are changing…

This “Subscription Feed” gives the smaller guy who doesn’t have “crazy-viral” content a fighting chance for more exposure.

As your viewers watch, rate and comment on your latest video, exposure for your content will spread to the followers and subscribers of each of your viewers through YouTube’s feed, creating a smaller yet more relevant viral effect.

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Building your subscriber base is even more imperative than ever before!

To take advantage of the Subscription Feed, here is what I recommend:

  •  Be active daily and consistently: Make sure to upload fresh content to YouTube weekly and follow up as many times as possible to comment, share and promote other videos that you enjoy watching. The more activity you have on YouTube, the more exposure you can get.
  • Get your audience to take action: Using a call to action, get your viewers to subscribe, rate, comment and share each of your videos. The more activity and interaction that takes place on each of your videos, the more potential exposure you get on the home page of YouTube.

I don’t expect your 3-minute, content-rich video on how to get more leads in your business to suddenly go viral and compete with the likes of “Rebecca Black” & “Charlie Bit My Finger.” I do however see a mini-viral effect take place! Your videos have the potential of being shared and seen by more targeted viewers (quality views over quantity!).

#2: New YouTube Channel Page

The new channel layout may look different, but it still behaves relatively the same. However, as YouTube moves in the direction of becoming more “channel-centric,” it is imperative that you activate, update and optimize your new channel as quickly as possible for the best results.

In fact, YouTube is already making more of an effort to feature channels on search results pages for related keywords. Focus on using your main keyword phrase properly in your channel, and you can get found even quicker!

youtube keywords

Optimize your channel with your main keyword phrase for more exposure!

Here is your action list for proper channel page optimization:

Step 1: Set up background image.

Depending on how your channel’s background image was designed before the big change, you may need to modify and upload a new image. The best background images reflect your brand and the services you provide through pictures and text on the far left-hand side of your background image.

To begin the editing process, simply click the “Edit Channel” button on the top right-hand corner of your channel page.

Step 2: Edit your channel details.

The next step is to make sure the title, description and tags for your channel are properly filled out using your main keyword phrase. (Note: Some users have experienced losing all the content they used in their previous channel description after making the switch. Don’t assume your description is still intact.)

Your title should be clear, concise and benefit-driven. Your description should detail exactly what type of value and benefits your audience will get when they watch your videos. And you can finish this by adding a bunch of your relevant keyword phrases (in quotation marks) in the Tags section.

youtube channel info

Properly fill out your channel info and include your keyword phrase.

Step 3: Activate the “Blogger Template.”

The new channel page offers the choice to customize the design and layout of your channel with one of four templates. I recommend using the “Blogger” layout. It can be selected with the click of a button!

youtube layout

Select the layout that best suits your needs!

Step 4: Edit your featured video.

Similar to the old channel design, you’ll want to have a featured video that auto-plays when people view your channel. You can choose from any of your past videos or select the option to use your most recent video (recommended).

youtube featured video

Remember to properly add your “featured video.”

Step 5: Add your links.

The new channel design makes it fairly easy to add website, blog and social profile links to drive traffic to your other web properties. Make sure to take the time to add and edit this information and use compelling benefit-driven copy to encourage your visitors to click over to your website!

youtube links

Include links to your website, blog and social networking profiles.

Most marketers will never take the 4.3 minutes to make these minor adjustments to their channel. Take this opportunity to optimize your channel page properly and focus on getting it ranked for your main keyword phrase!

#3: YouTube Analytics

My personal favorite change in YouTube’s most recent overhaul has been their introduction of YouTube Analytics. Previously called YouTube Insight, this extremely detailed and informative feature allows you to learn more about your audience, your videos and your activity on YouTube. In other words, you get to totally geek out!

Each statistic tells a story about the viewing habits of your audience. With proper deduction skills, you can effectively identify problems with your videos and make the necessary changes to improve your results.

Most of the features in YouTube Analytics have remained the same; however, there are two features that I would like to call special attention to:

1: Audience retention

Previously labeled as “Hotspots,” this improved function allows you to see just how engaging (or unengaging!) your videos really are. Identify the exact moments that are causing your viewers to run for the hills or making them perform a “digital double-take,” rewinding your video and begging you for more! Want to see more results with your videos? This function tells you exactly what you need to do!

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Two exciting features to play with inside YouTube Analytics.

2: Playback locations

This new function allows you to see exactly where your videos are being watched. As mobile devices become predominant in our lives, you’ll notice a greater percentage of playback locations coming from “mobile.” This feature will also allow you to see exactly who is embedding your videos and which blogs/websites are giving you views! Find out what is working and you can do more of the same!

Why Change Is Good

Even though this round of changes was met with harsh criticism from the YouTube community, it’s our duty as business owners to embrace the change and understand YouTube’s ultimate vision.

As the third-largest website in the world with an audience that rivals any major television network, YouTube is an absolute powerhouse! It has big plans for blurring the line of offline television and online entertainment, and we can expect YouTube to continue to evolve and morph into something new and different.

What do you think? Do you understand the rules of YouTube’s game? Embrace the change and you can see results for a long time to come! Leave your questions and comments in the box below.

I trust you found this article helpful, if so share it around or leave a comment below .

If you need any help setting up your whole Video marketing system then please contact me .

I am sure you can use these 3 New YouTube Changes to make changes to your youtube channel if you have one and if you don’t you can then use them to set your channel up with correctly.

How To Create, Edit and Share Video In Minutes

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How To Create, Edit and Share Video In Minutes

The reason most people don’t use Video in their marketing is because they don’t know How to Create, Edit and Share Video in Minutes, for some it takes hours. I know some videos I have put together where I am the “Talking Head” as we say, I have done anything up to 50 takes, it is so frustrating, and I am sure many of you will know what I mean. I remember a friend of mine taking “Take after Take” to get something perfect , that is enough to put anyone off doing video, especially if you are going to be the Star Attraction :-)

How ever you having to be the Star Attraction is not always how you need to do a video. There are so many things you can do with video. I have actually written another blog with a list of all the different ways you can use the videos you create so you can go over to that post later and check it out. Screen Capture Software 5 ways to use it.

Teach
Show new product
Be a comedian
Be your own singing star

Many of you will know of lots of people out there who got their start to Stardom through putting a video up on Youtube. It is completely amazing. I think of the many 100′s of students I have taught how to:

Build Websites
How to build Fanpages
How to find Keywords
How to transfer domain names
How to make videos
How to use Facebook, Twitter, Youtube
How to use a coffee machine (yes done that as well)

….so many things, all through video.  We just love video.  We need to use it in every part of our promotions… it does not matter if we are promoting ourselves, our brand or product or service we need to be using video. But as said earlier some people don’t want to use it because it is all to hard … but it’s not really hard.

Video is fast becoming the most effective traffic-generation tool online today… And YouTube is the top of the lead-generation sites. Search engines love videos, so it’s often much easier to show up on the first page of search engine results when video is used instead of text. People are 41% more likely to click on a video link in search engine results, than on a text link (like for a blog, article, or website).

 ”You absolutely MUST use video in your online business, or resign yourself to losing ground to online marketers and entrepreneurs who do.” states Mynders Glover, co-founder of BusinessBuildingShortcuts.com. “I could go on and on about ways you need to be using video in your online business, if you are serious about building a real business that actually makes you money, but I’m pretty sure you are already convinced that you have to use video, and use it everywhere in your business.”

I will be having Mynders on the webinar this Wednesday and I am so excited about that… here is some information about what we are going to cover and also Just who is Mynders Glover:

On December 14th, Glover will offer a free webinar designed to teach online marketers to create, edit and share their video content in minutes.  Glover will share his secrets to Instant Video Mastery while introducing a program designed to get results without huge investments of time and money.

This free webinar is open to the public.  Pre-registration is required. Details may be found by Clicking here

During the webinar, Glover will address commonly asked questions like these…

* Does my market watch videos online?”
* How does video marketing compare with article marketing for list-building and sales?”
* Can videos be a part of a business-building strategy?”
* Are there ways I should be using video… but I’m not?”
* How can I get great-sounding audio for my videos?”
* What should I do to get my videos to rank well in search engine results?”
* What’s the best software to use to create awesome videos – easily?”

 

 Mynders Glover has an MBA, and has been an entrepreneur almost since birth. After working at a job only long enough to qualify for his CPA, he went off on his own. He has created successful businesses in real estate and real estate development, nutritional products, seminars and consulting, corporate training, and in direct mail.

 Originally from New Orleans, Mynders has lived in the Durango, CO area since 1999. He earned his undergraduate degree from Virginia’s Washington and Lee University in 1976 and his MBA from the University of Virginia in 1980.

 Between college and graduate school, Mynders worked in the tax and audit practices of one of the world’s largest accounting firms, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., where he obtained his CPA certificate. He worked for others for only 3 years before going into business for himself. In the years since, Mynders has founded business, management and financial companies, a real estate development company and several Internet sites.

Mynders is the co-founder, with his wife, Deb, of  Business Building Shortcuts, an online business which focuses on matching “Product Creators” with “Affiliates” (product Marketers).

 

 

Below is a video that Mynders has done for you to show you how to use Tungle.com Using Tungle.me to Leverage Your Time. It’s a great video actually and you will see in the video just how Mynders is using video to teach you all about Tungle.com.

Thanks for reading and watching :-) Don’t forget to share this post to all your friends and maybe even send them the link to the Webinar so that you and them will all know How to Create, Edit and Share Video in Minutes. 

 

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