Wednesday, February 16, 2011

How my Music Videos on Youtube Became Popular

I create music videos for my band on Youtube. I play the bass, but I am also the only one in the group skilled with video editing. We uploaded our first video of our band playing our favorite song at a gig a few months ago. The video looked good and the band sounded great, but no one seemed to take notice. We only got 5 or 10 views in the first week, and they were mostly from our friends and ourselves, but we really wanted to get hundreds or thousands of views so our band could get famous quickly. Our second and third videos on Youtube went just as slowly.

The best thing we ever did for those videos was to post them on Fireviews. Everyone in the band made an account and started earning views. We each put a separate music video on our profile and started trying to get them viewed on Fireviews. Before we knew it, our views on Youtube of our music videos had doubled , and then tripled! We were getting dozens of views and a ton of feedback about our music. Everyone on Fireviews who watched our videos left a comment about them on our Fireviews pages. Some of those viewers must have really liked it and told a bunch of their friends, because even after we stopped using Fireviews our Youtube views kept going up. Fireviews really helped us get the word out initially, and our great music helped the videos spread from there.

Now we're getting a couple thousand views on each of our music videos. It's not exactly rock star status, but it's definitely better than when we started. We have a bunch of fans now, and we're working on our own band website for those fans. If you want to kickstart your fame, I would definitely recommend using Fireviews.

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