How Do I Sync My Youtube Views On My Facebook Page

I've but been putting content on my YouTube channel in its current incarnation for a relatively brusk time. I had a aqueduct years ago that did rather well, but YouTube (and the rest of the web) was a much simpler world back and so.

Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter had simply merely launched. Instagram hadn't even been thought upwards. There wasn't really a whole lot of creators out there publicly on the web, either. Today, it's all very different. So, this is how and why I market my new YouTube content on social media.

Getting your content in front of peoples eyes these days isn't like shooting fish in a barrel. And it'due south not that your content sucks – unless it does – only that people just don't know you lot be. And there'southward so much more competition for our attention. YouTube wants to promote your content, only just if it benefits YouTube. Their goal is to get people on the platform and to stay on the platform for as long equally possible.

As a issue, YouTube tends to value watch fourth dimension and appointment above all else to promote your video within the platform itself. This includes the search results likewise as suggested content on other peoples videos. So, the residuum of this post assumes y'all're already creating interesting and engaging content that keeps viewers hooked. It besides assumes that your YouTube SEO is on betoken, also. After all, getting your videos some exposure does you no adept if YouTube can't tell what your content's actually about.

When you lot're a really small YouTuber, (a few hundred subs or less), it's kind of a catch 22. Y'all demand the views and engagement for more people to find your stuff. And you need people to find your stuff in order to view and appoint with it.

So, what can y'all do? Well, hither'south what I practice.

Why promote your videos on social media?

Note : This post was originally going to cover both Facebook and Instagram, simply it turned out to exist much longer than I'd anticipated, so I'm splitting it upwards into two posts. This ane is about Facebook.

I already take existing audiences in other places who seem to similar the content I postal service at that place. As my YouTube content relates to that which I mail elsewhere (photography, mostly), information technology makes sense to leverage those other platforms to bring viewers over to YouTube.

These are people with which I already accept a relationship. They've engaged with my content on those other platforms already. So, they're also more likely to engage with it on YouTube besides.

It's a lot easier to build upwardly an audience on YouTube if you already take an audience elsewhere that you tin can bring over. Easier, non easy. It still takes a lot of time and work.

I am on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and a agglomeration of other platforms. The two on which I interact the most, though, are Facebook and Instagram. Then, that's where I focus my energies.

Not all of the methods I apply will be applicative to y'all. But hopefully you tin become some ideas from this, and adapt what I exercise to suit your needs.

How do I promote my videos on Facebook?

I endeavor to keep a like topic of content throughout the platforms I'grand on. For me, that'southward primarily photography. That'south what most people know me for, and it'due south what I more often than not attempt to base my YouTube videos around.

For instance, this is the latest video on my channel. Behind the scenes on a photo shoot at Devil'southward Pulpit during a recent visit to Scotland. And this is the video we'll apply to illustrate the residue of this post.

Regular social maintenance

As a photographer, I have a big archive of images I've shot over the years. So, I regularly mail service both new and former work to Facebook. This allows me to keep up engagement on those platforms, fifty-fifty when I'm not creating new content specifically for them.

I'll post observations I remember my audience may find interesting or agreeable, or I'll ask a question. And occasionally I'll experiment with content that'southward a petty different from the norm only to see what happens.

Keeping upward this engagement means that when I do mail service something related to a new video, a greater number of friends and folio followers see information technology. Because users are regularly engaging with my content, Facebook shows my new content to more than people.

Before shooting even begins

I primarily shoot my photography on location (non a fan of the studio, sorry). And then that means I unremarkably shoot my videos on location, too. I'chiliad frequently shooting at the same locations over and over with new subjects. So, if I'm planning to shoot a new video at a location I've been to earlier, so I've already got relevant content.

It might exist a new location, but with a person I've photographed before or the friend of a previous bailiwick. It may reference a past shoot or topic I've discussed on Facebook. Either way, if I can discover a connection to previous content, it gives me a fashion to post relevant content that at least some of my audience can chronicle to.

I mail service this content in advance to let my audience know that a new video volition be on the fashion. It gives people the opportunity to inquire questions about what I'll be doing. Sometimes they'll make suggestions for things they desire to see. Information technology builds anticipation. I'll practice this for 2 or iii days leading up to the shoot.

Such content can be scheduled to postal service to Facebook automatically via a service such as Hootsuite. 10 minutes at the computer and y'all're covered. Facebook does now offer its own scheduling features. But, if you want to schedule several different platforms, information technology'due south easier to exercise it all from one location. Another popular scheduling service is Buffer.  But there are many more out at that place, also, so do some research. Most of these services offer a complimentary account that is more than adequate for a small YouTuber's needs.

In the case of the shoot at Devil's Pulpit, I'd never actually been there before. I was visiting Scotland for the first time since I was a kid to become visit friends. Just I did know that we'd head at that place, so I made a point to mail service nigh the identify, and who I was with, even though I had no photos of the location itself.

While shooting the footage

I endeavour to go far a addiction to mail some behind the scenes shots to Facebook while I'm actually doing the shoot and recording footage for the video. It might be a lighting setup, or the gear I'k using. It could merely be a pretty panoramic of the location itself, or just one or all of us doing something daft.

I've considered doing Facebook Live streams (and on YouTube) during the shoots, but almost of my locations are out of signal range. So, I couldn't do it fifty-fifty if I wanted to. This might work for you, though, to get some real time feedback while you're creating it.

Being out of signal range means it'southward hard to post photos while shooting, too. Simply at that place's nil to cease me getting the shots during the 24-hour interval, making the post offline, and having the app automatically send them when information technology gets signal again. And then, that's what I oftentimes do.

On some shoots, in that location's simply so much going on that it's difficult to actually get photos for social media during the shoot itself. In the case of the Devil's Pulpit video, all I could get was a photo of drone footage as information technology plays on my Windows tablet later on (you'll see that down below).

After the shoot, but before the edit is complete

With the footage shot, I recall about content from the solar day that I tin post correct away. I've actually had this in mind while I've been shooting, besides. I make mental notes (and sometimes jot them down on my phone in case I forget) of primal moments during the day that I can mail service.

Lately I've been getting group shot selfies immediately after the shoot, as well. I'll too tag the other people who were there, as it gets the content to show up on their pages and timelines, also. Their friends & fans are interested in what they do, besides. And maybe some of them will exist interested in what I'm doing.

Shot and hung out with such an amazing bunch of people today. Thank you Nicole, Paul, Michèle and Barry!

Posted by John Aldred on Friday, May 12, 2017

Video promotion aside, I'd do this anyway. I collaborate with awesome people. So, I want a shot of usa all at the end of the twenty-four hour period. That's why this normally just goes on my personal profile.

I'll export some screengrabs from the footage using Adobe Premiere and post those, to my page, as well.

For this video, I was away from habitation, with just my measly Windows tablet (inappreciably an editing powerhouse) to keep me company. That meant no editing, no screengrabs. A phone shot of my tablet's screen playing dorsum some drone footage does the job, though.

https://www.facebook.com/johnaldredphoto/posts/1488371694576945:0

After, when it came fourth dimension to actually edit the video, I did post a couple of screen grabs from the video to my feed.

When your friends don't care that you're trying to record a vlog. :D

Posted by John Aldred on Wednesday, June xiv, 2017

If it'southward a photo shoot, I'll process  a few of my favourites beginning, once I'm at the computer. I don't e'er need to mail service the images, myself, however. If somebody else involved in the shoot posts them and tags me, then my audience will run across that but as if I'd posted it myself. So, I tend non to repost it (at least not correct abroad). I don't want to spam their feeds with the same content all the fourth dimension.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=106058113308773&ready=a.104394390141812.1073741828.100017137537009&type=iii

I will also often tag companies that might somehow relate to the video. Perhaps they've sent me gear to review, or play with, or it might just be a production I already own that I merely really like.

Hashtags tend not to be every bit useful on Facebook every bit they are on other platforms, but I all the same occasionally employ them. My Instagram posts as well get automatically posted to Facebook through IFTTT, so those hashtags go carried over from there.

Normally, I'll schedule these to post in one case or twice a solar day until I expect the main edit to be consummate.

Later on the master edit is complete

It was a lilliputian while afterward I got back from Scotland that I began to edit this video. I'd recorded several from the trip, and I didn't want to unleash them all at once. I didn't have time to edit them all back-to-back for a start. I accept work and real life to contend with. And I also just wanted to spread them out a bit.

But, with the editing done and the final video rendered out, I'll create a few very brusque edits while the main video uploads to YouTube. These edits vary anywhere between about 15 seconds and a minute.

I overlay each of the small videos with my YouTube URL in the bottom right paw corner. This way, while they lookout the video, the link is ever in their view. I'g fortunate that I have a short, and easy to remember URL. If your URL is particularly long, information technology might be worth getting a custom short link to your channel through a service such as bit.ly.

These aren't posted immediately, but by the time I'one thousand washed making them, the upload of the main video is done. Then, I'll enter my title, description, keywords, playlists, etc. And get the video ready to go live on YouTube.

When the video goes live

When the video's ready to get alive (which is based on when Analytics tell me my viewers on YouTube are about active) this is where those other smaller edits come in.

One is a segment of the final video. It acts as a sort of trailer, and is commonly the longest of the small videos. This trailer typically doesn't go to my page or personal contour, though. I will generally post it into a couple of groups related to the type of content the video shows.

Note : I upload this video directly to Facebook. I don't link to or embed a YouTube video as I have done here. I'g using YouTube hither considering all of the groups in which this trailer exists are set to "Closed". And then I can't embed from Facebook.

In some of the groups, instead of the trailer, I'll post an image from the shoot, forth with behind the scenes photos or screengrabs and links to the video. For example, I posted this in ane photography group I'thou in.

I include information on the camera & lens, besides as wink and settings in the description for the prototype. Then, in the get-go two comments on that post, I added these, along with a link to the full vlog on YouTube.

Again, I often don't need to post these photos to my own page or profile, as others involved in their creation will post them and tag me.

As you can come across here, Ziggy posted the same photo to her ain timeline and tagged me. If I were to post the same image, too, it would just badger my audience with repetitive content.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=137252396856011&set=a.134913350423249.1073741833.100017137537009&blazon=iii

The remainder of the minor edits are oftentimes cut from bloopers or other footage that doesn't make the final cut.

These ones are to post to my page or profile, tagged with the people who may appear in them. But they will also occasionally go in groups, also, if they're groups nosotros're all members of.

No matter how many times I watch this, I have absolutely NO Clue what Paul'south trying to say. :D

Posted by John Aldred on Saturday, July 1, 2017

These are good, because my friends and followers volition come across them and annotate. Their friends volition also see them and annotate. And who doesn't like making fun of their friends? These short clips can drive a lot of engagement, which makes Facebook desire to bear witness people my other content, too.

Finally, I will postal service a link directly to the video on my Facebook page and sometimes my personal profile. I don't expect this to get a lot of appointment. I certainly don't expect Facebook to testify it to many people.

https://www.facebook.com/johnaldredphoto/posts/1555888971158550

The popular belief is that even simply a link straight to the video will help you with YouTube's algorithms. Whether it does aid or non, and by how much information technology may aid if it does at all, I exercise not know. Only, I exercise it.

I really wish I'd gotten more than footage of the location itself so you lot could actually see information technology all. Well, I suppose information technology simply…

Posted past John Aldred on Monday, July iii, 2017

In the days after the shoot

Immediately after the video goes alive and other content goes to Facebook, I will appoint equally much as time allows. I tend to prepare my videos alive in the early evening when work is complete. This means I can dedicate my time to responding on social media too equally the video itself.

The next day, I'll maybe post another short edit, probably to groups, rather than my page. I won't just drop information technology in randomly, though. Usually it'south in response to a question asked well-nigh the video or photo shoot. This lets me joke effectually with friends in those groups, and help alert other members who weren't aware that I postal service content on YouTube.

Don't but spam, though. If you're in a group become a part of that community. Be in these groups because you want to exist, non because you feel information technology will get yous more subscribers or views. Genuinely involve yourself in the community.

I'll also post another photo from the shoot to my page or contour. Or, somebody else will and tag me.

And so?

Finally I'll usually put a blog mail service together, not on here, merely my personal blog. At the time of writing this, I haven't done one for the Devil'southward Pulpit video, but I did write one for a visit to Glencoe a few days before this photo shoot happened.

These contain actress details, photos and other information that I didn't include in the vlog itself. Information technology could be that I simply didn't want to cover them in the video because they didn't fit, or I didn't become enough footage for all of information technology. Or I may only non desire to drag the video out too long.

https://www.facebook.com/johnaldredphoto/posts/1518138981600216

Blogs are great for your video discoverability. Search engines love the text based content. YouTube also sees another domain embedding and linking to your videos (and their platform).

I mail this to my Facebook page and occasionally my personal profile, besides. I will tag people or companies, where appropriate, and they volition often share information technology, as well.

Beyond this, I treat the videos as a sort of reference library. If something in a video or its associated content helps to respond somebody's question in the future, then I volition link to it. Just, only if it volition actually benefit them and help to reply their question. I'll besides explain why I'thou posting a link to the content and how I call back it might assist or respond their question.

Over again, nobody likes a spammer. And then be genuinely involved with the communities in which you lot promote.

Paid Promotion on Facebook

Somebody asked me if I always exercise paid promotions on Facebook. The simple respond is no. It merely seems like a fake economic system to me.

Everybody I know who'southward washed information technology has seen a brusque heave in traffic and then a big dip for the next iii months. And that dip over the course of three months is a greater loss than the short term boost gains.

So, unless you pay to promote every other post you brand, it's merely not worth it. And, I don't know nearly you, merely my videos aren't making enough to justify that kind of cost yet.

No and then!

So, that's pretty much what I practice on Facebook when I mail a new vlog or video to my YouTube aqueduct.

Exactly what will vary slightly, depending on the topic and style of the video. Some content just doesn't lend itself well to certain strategies. And if at that place'due south nobody else involved in its cosmos, I can't depend on others to post and tag me.

It seems like a lot of work, a lot of extra content to create. Much of it, though, I would create anyway. The photographs I post to Facebook usually appear in the video itself. And I'd still have to edit them to deliver to the model or client.

And one time you get used to doing things like this and fitting them into your workflow, they really don't take up much extra time.

Likewise, we haven't even spoken about Instagram yet. That will exist coming in a future post!

I'chiliad not saying this is what you have to do, nor am I suggesting that my mode is the perfect way or even the simply way. This is but what I do.

What exercise you lot practise to promote your YouTube videos on Facebook or other social media platforms?

Source: https://www.diyphotography.net/promote-youtube-videos-facebook/

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