Where can I promote my YouTube videos?

Warning! If you don’t make quality videos, this post will not help you at all. Quality videos need to be valuable. Help, entertain, inspire, teach, show, demonstrate. Whatever you do, just make sure it is valuable FIRST then promote it second.

So, you made an awesome video, but it doesn’t help anyone if they don’t see it. You need to promote your video with just as much effort as it took to make it.

You need to know what your video is about. Does it have a theme? Lets say you made a video about how to cook your family recipe.

First place to promote your video to:

Friends and family. Do you know anyone who likes the recipe, or your type of video, or cooking in general? Send them a direct message. Put it on their wall, in a message, text it to them. Ask for feedback. Ask them to subscriber. If they say no, ask them why and use that to get better.

Next place: Reddit. But specifically subreddits. Find one about cooking, family, secret recipes. Then contribute something. DO NOT just dump your link and say check it out. Ask a question, tell them what you learned. Good luck, Reddit is hard, lots of people there hate everything. So put on your thick skin armour and try it.

Next place: Facebook groups. Same rules. Find groups about cooking, or whatever the topic of your video is. Contribute for a while. Maybe even ask the moderator directly if it is ok to put a link to your video in a post from time to time. Be nice. Don’t just say check it.

Next place: Other YouTube channels. Same rules. Contribute to the discussion. Don’t just say check my video. If your username is clear that you focus on the topic people will check you out. Do collabs with other similar channels. Even over Skype if you can’t meet up.

Another potential place to promote is other websites. This one takes a lot of work. You are going to find 1 site that is a fit for your best video, then you are going to email the editor of the site you want to post your video using the following script: