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Creative Ways to Promote Your YouTube Video on Instagram

If you have a YouTube video you want to share with your followers on Instagram, there are some creative ways to do so. By following the tips in this article, you can increase your exposure and create a community around your work. It’s easy and most of the methods we disclose here are FREE!

Create a Facebook group

If you want to get more YouTube video views, you may consider creating a Facebook group. This is a relatively inexpensive way to reach your target market. And, since you can interact with viewers, you can build relationships that could help you with your campaign.

One of the first things you need to do is choose a name. Whether you opt to create a public or private group, you will need a descriptive description. You can use the description to set rules and encourage participation.

You’ll need to monitor your group closely. If you don’t, spam can destroy it quickly. So, be sure to monitor each post that is submitted.

A pinned post is another easy way to get people to stick around. A pinned post is a regular post that the group admin has fixed to the top of the page. This can lead users to a file or encourage them to share.

Add a link to YouTube in your bio

Adding a YouTube link to your Instagram bio can be a useful way to increase your visibility. This is because you can directly connect with your audience and show them that you’re active on the platform. In addition to this, it can help you get more subscribers.

There are two ways to copy your YouTube channel link: either through the app or by going to your YouTube website and copying the URL. If you choose to copy the link through the app, you will need to make sure you choose the correct option for the account you want to link.

 

In general, it’s best to use the Omnilink profile tool to do this. It’s a free service and it automatically updates your bio whenever you change it. It’s also a handy tool for integrating video, as you can add a YouTube description and subscribe button to your profile.

Tease your audience with video clips

If you want to promote your YouTube video on Instagram, you need to be smart about the way you promote it. One of the easiest ways to do this is to tease your audience with video clips. These videos can include a mini video teaser, a still image, and a call to action.

To help you find the right video to tease your audience with, here are a few tips:

If you’re looking to get more subscribers to your YouTube video, consider creating a custom YouTube thumbnail. This will be seen on your homepage and in the search engine results page, and is a great way to attract viewers and followers.

If you’re looking for a more engaging experience, consider using an app like Canva to create your own YouTube thumbnail. It will help you to build a bespoke thumbnail that will draw viewers in and make you stand out from the crowd.

Don’t forget that offline methods like Powerpoint are also a great way to embed YouTube videos into!

Create an Instagram feed

Creating an Instagram feed to promote your YouTube video is a great way to increase your visibility. Instagram is an excellent platform for cross promotion, which can lead to more subscribers and views for your video. There are a few ways to do this:

  1. First, use hashtags to group content into categories. You can also create hashtags related to fashion trends, lifestyle, or the topic of your video. By using these hashtags, you make it easier for users to find your content.
  2. Secondly, another easy way to promote your YouTube video on Instagram is to use Instagram Stories. Stories allow you to post up to 15 seconds of content. In addition to a photo or video, you can include a link to your YouTube video. This is perfect for linking teaser trailers to your YouTube channel.

Respond to comments

You may have heard that you can respond to comments on YouTube videos. However, you may not know that there are many ways to do this.

To make your job a bit easier, here are some quick tips. First, you want to write a brief thank you note to the commenter. This will show the person that you are paying attention to their question or opinion, and it will encourage them to continue to share your content.

Second, you may wish to consider the “Reels Visual Replies” feature in the Instagram app. This is a new feature that enables you to reply to other users’ comments on your posts. The mobile app will highlight a comment on your post, as a sticker, to help you make your response stand out from the rest.

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How to add YouTube videos to GoDaddy Web Hosting (Site Builder)

If you’re using GoDaddy Site Builder, then don’t despair, it is possible to add any YouTube video to your site – indeed, it’s even possible to add multiple ones, never mind just one video. Read on to find out how.

As of November 2019, YouTube no longer supports the software component used for Website Builder v6 and InstantPage. However, you can still display YouTube videos by adding HTML code to your Website Builder v6 pages.

  1. Log in to your GoDaddy account.
  2. In your Products list click Website Builder, and then click Manage next to the account you want to use.
  3. Click Design Your Pages.
  4. If necessary, from the Pages menu, select the page to which you want to add a video.
  5. Click the content block you want to edit, and at the block’s bottom-left, click the HTML button.
  6. After the Edit HTML window opens, switch to a new tab or window in your web browser.
  7. Browse to the YouTube video you want to place on your page.
  8. Click the Share button below the video to display a field containing code.
  9. Click Embed and then Show More below the code field.
  10. Use the Video size menu to choose a standard display size or Custom size, then select or deselect the choices listed below the menu.
    Note: The code field’s content changes based on your choices.
  11. Copy all content in the code field.
  12. Switch back to your Website Builder v6 page and replace the Edit HTML window’s code by pasting in the copied YouTube code.
  13. Click OK to close the Edit HTML window.
    Note: To preview the video within your Website Builder v6 page, click the play arrow. To adjust the settings, click the < > button again.
  14. When you’re ready, click Publish.

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How to Embed YouTube Videos in WooCommerce (Product Description etc)

So you want to embed a YouTube video in your wooCommerce pages but find it rather difficult. You are covered. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to embed YouTube videos in your product descriptions without any hassles.

Here we go!

The Direct Method

This is the easiest and simplest way to embed a YouTube video into your WooCommerce product descriptions  – but it’s only good if you don’t want to customize the Youtube video at all.

Step 1. Grab the URL of your YouTube video by clicking on the Share button on the YouTube site:

Step 2. Paste into your product description page at the end as shown below:

WARNING: Do not forget to change the editor mode from Visual to Text (highlighted in red) before pasting the YouTube URL, so you do not run into sudden page load.

Step 3. Click on button and see the changes.

See the following reference:

Checked the preview of your product description?

Satisfied… Happy Ending now!

Not Satisfied… Continue the hard way.

The Pro Method

In this section, we will discuss not only how to embed the articles but also how to resize and set different elements of the video frame the professional way.

Step 1. Grab the Embed Code of your YouTube video as shown below:

Step 2. Click on SHOW MORE and expand to use embed elements.

NB: If you need even more options for customizing the YouTube player we offer this free tool.

Step 3. Select a suitable video frame size.

Step 4. Adjust player controls and video title.

Step 5. Paste the code into WooCommerce editor as discussed in the previous section.

Step 6. Click to check if the video appears as you wish.

Step 7. Publish the changes.

And, you are done! Congratulations!

Compared: Vimeo vs Youtube, which is best?

YouTube and Vimeo are two of the most popular video sites around, and at first glance they look quite similar, but there are some key differences.

Whether you’re looking for a platform to upload and share your videos, or you want somewhere to watch great quality content, there are lots of factors to bear in mind. Both YouTube and Vimeo offer free services, but both also have various premium services, which differ greatly. Vimeo also allows for much higher video quality than YouTube, which encourages users to focus on quantity rather than quality.

Upload costs

Vimeo works the other way round, letting viewers watch videos for free, but charging creatives to upload their content.

A Vimeo basic account is free, but comes with some strict limits on the amount of data you can upload (see below for full details). Premium Vimeo accounts are priced as follows:

  • Plus: $7 / £6 / AU$7 per month billed annually
  • Pro: $20 / £16 / AU$20 per month billed annually
  • Business: $50 / £40 / AU$50 per month billed annually
  • Premium: $75 / £70 / AU$75 per month billed annually

YouTube gives watchers a chance to watch recordings for nothing, however on the off chance that you would prefer not to be hindered by promotions, at that point you’ll have to move up to YouTube Premium. This is free for this first month, and $11.99/£11.99/AU$14.99 every month from that point.

All about the costs and prices

YouTube Premium additionally gives you a chance to play recordings out of sight while you utilize different applications on your telephone (perfect for music recordings), and gives you access to YouTube Originals (TV arrangement and motion pictures appointed by YouTube).

Recordings on Vimeo aren’t peppered with advertisements, and many are allowed to watch, yet others are accessible on a compensation for every view premise called Video on Demand (VoD). This offers three levels:

Lease, which enables you to stream the video for a particular period

  • Purchase, which gives you a chance to stream the video for whatever length of time that it stays on Vimeo
  • Buy in, which gives you access to everything on the VoD’s page, including any new recordings that are transferred in future.
  • VoD installments go straightforwardly to the maker. All makers acknowledge US dollars as installment, however different monetary forms (counting pounds sterling and Australian dollars) are discretionary.

Summary

So overall, it would appear that YouTube is better, although if you are employed in the arts, graphics or design then Vimeo offers a viable alternative solution, albeit for a higher price.

Why does my YouTube video not autoplay?

If you are a regular user of YouTube, then you will probably agree that one of the handiest things about it is the fact that it has the suggested videos and autoplay features. If you’re watching a video that you like then YouTube will automatically populate a long list of other, similar videos that you may also find interesting. Once your current video has finished playing, YouTube will then automatically play the next video in this populated list if you take no action.

The autoplay feature is great for situations such as parties where may want to just pick a song that you like and then let YouTube do the rest. This ‘set and forget’ method will enable you to play your favourite genre of music for many hours without having to do so much as press a button or click a mouse.

YouTube autoplay does come with one main disadvantage though. For many people, it simply doesn’t work. There’s nothing more annoying than watching a video on YouTube, and expecting more similar videos to play afterwards, only to find that the room goes silent and that nothing happens. If autoplay is not working for you the next time you’re trying to watch videos on YouTube, then try one of the methods that follow.

 

Make sure that Autoplay is enabled

Regardless of all of the other settings and options that you tweak and play with, if you haven’t enabled the autoplay feature on YouTube then it simply will not work. First thing’s first, make sure that autoplay is enabled when you’re watching a video. This is simple enough to do, as the autoplay button appears on the same page as any video that you may be watching. It’s a toggle switch that is highlighted blue if autoplay is enabled, or greyed out if it is not. If the button looks grey, simply click it once and wait for it to turn blue and for a tick to appear on the switch itself.

 

Check for Browser Profile Corruption Issues

If you’re one of the 15% of the internet population who use Firefox then the chances are that you will also be one of the people who have problems with the YouTube autoplay feature. Fortunately it’s a fairly simple fix, that just involved getting the latest version of the browser from Mozilla, and pasting a few lines of code into the profile in the AppData folder on your computer. Doing this and then restarting your browser will usually mean that autoplay starts to work again.

 

Alter the URL

If none of the above solutions work to enable autoplay on your YouTube video, then this little trick probably will. In your browser’s URL field where you typed in ‘https://www.youtube.com/’, simply add ‘?autoplay=1’ to the end of your video’s URL. This will set the value of the autoplay feature to ‘1’, which is translated into ‘true’ by the browser. The browser then knows to enable the autoplay feature on the video that you’re watching.

 

Disable AdBlock

People who are using various different internet browsers and have had problems with YouTube’s Autoplay feature in the past have found that the issue can often be resolved by disabling AdBlock. If you have AdBlock then you will find it under your browser’s add-ons or extensions, and adding YouTube as an exception will probably fix the issue so that autoplay works again. Of course the main disadvantage of this method is that you will be forced to watch the ads, and on YouTube there are a lot of them.

 

82 year old farmer becomes latest YouTube ‘star’

John Butler, who was an organic farmer in Lincolnshire and who now lives in Bakewell, has become an internet sensation across the globe in his twilight years, with viewers tuning in to see his regular updates discussing various matters and his religious beliefs.

His profile has been boosted by fans of ASMR – autonomous sensory meridian response – in which viewers watch relaxing clips of people doing every day things and speaking in calm voices as a form of relaxation. His Spiritual Unfoldment YouTube channel has in excess of 32,000 endorsers and his recordings have timed up about 5,000,000 perspectives.

The clasps – just titled Conversations with John Butler – show the unshaven 82-year-old talking about his own life and his otherworldly convictions on various themes, ordinarily inside Bakewell Church, however his excursions have taken him to Lanzarote, where he additionally recorded various recordings with companion and cameraman Phil Shankland.

John, who has been rehearsing contemplation for more than 50 years, has likewise composed a few books concentrating on his convictions, Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment, Mystic Approaches and two little volumes entitled Mystic Verses.

In mature age, in the wake of soliciting himself what he had from most an incentive to desert, he began gathering the numerous notes made for an amazing duration of his bits of knowledge and encounters.

He experienced childhood in the wide open as a rancher, yet his life later self-destructed, prompting extensive stretches of gloom and searching for answers before dedicating his life to profound quiet. The recordings see him tending to inquiries from the books just as musings sent in by YouTube watchers.

His profile has been supported by enthusiasts of ASMR – independent tangible meridian reaction – in which watchers watch loosening up clasps of individuals doing each day things and talking in quiet voices as a type of unwinding.

Delicately spoken John, who medidates each morning and night at the town’s All Saints Parish Church, has become such a top choice, that fans presently rush from around the world to go through ends of the week talking and contemplating with him.

Solved: How to spot fake-popular YouTube videos

Is this story actually true? Who knows, but it caught my attention, as I have my eye on a BMW M3 and also because it involves YouTube 🙂

If you watch the video above, you’ll see that the story goes like this:

YouTuber had BMW M3 stolen, and saw it by chance on YouTube again being re-sold illegally at a junkyard.

This roused my suspicion because a BMW M3 that is only a few years old should not really end up at a junkyard / scrapyard. Even though the bonnet is open on the video, and there is some minor damage to the front-end, it looks (from where we are sitting anyway) to be a fully repairable car. And using the VIN you can see from here that it’s not actually ever been scrapped or written off…

The first bad sign?

No insurance underwriter is going to write off a car that is still worth about £25,000 ($40,000) without good reason – i.e. it’s worth way less than that. But why would it be?

When some people started to question this is in the comments, they were mysteriously locked and all comments removed/disabled. That’s the first warning sign.

The second warning sign is that you can see the likes and dislikes are disabled. A video with over 1m views would have at least one rating – it’s inevitable. And indeed I’d expect the number of likes/dislikes to be well into the five figures, for a video with this many views.

Locked comments are a red flag

YouTube gives you the option to lock comments, and also to prevent likes/dislikes being left. I can’t see any genuine reason to do this:

Every so often a video on YouTube goes viral and yet it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that it’s probably not fully true nor is everything as it seems. These are my two tips to spotting fake videos on YouTube – do you have any other tips?

TheVerge also has a fairly useful article here on how to spot fake viral ones (i.e. they’ve bought the views). Let’s be honest though — it’s much easier to create a fake video than it is to create a real one, and buy the views. If you create the right clickbait video title, the views will come.

Will Vimeo ever be Bigger than YouTube?

If you’ve ever watched a video online then the chances are you have visited the YouTube website to do it. But did you know that there are other websites out there that will allow you to watch, upload and share videos just like YouTube? In fact, there are many websites out there that offer the similar or even better functionality than YouTube. One of the largest of such websites is called Vimeo.

Vimeo was founded in November 2004 approximately a year earlier than YouTube, yet it only receives around 0.98% of the voice compared to YouTube’s 97.2%, and has only 100 million registered users compared to YouTube’s 1 billion. The main reason for this is thought to be that while the creators of Vimeo were developing it in their spare time alongside their college work, YouTube was heavily invested in by huge technology companies more or less from the outset, and then was sold to Google in 2006.

Despite the fact that YouTube is so much bigger, Vimeo is still pretty big. It still receives over 100 million visits every month, and makes around $40 million each year. So it’s no small fish, and it is probably YouTube’s biggest competitor, so is there any chance of Vimeo becoming bigger than YouTube in the future?

Probably not. For starters, the fact that YouTube already has over a billion registered users will mean that it will be pretty difficult to overtake. Although there are 7 billion people on the planet, there is still a massive potential audience for Vimeo, but the snowball effect will mean that as Vimeo continues to grow, so will YouTube. The difference is that YouTube will grow at a much larger rate as it has the financial capital and share in the video upload market to just keep growing.

It also helps that YouTube is owned by the largest search engine in the world, Google. When people search on Google and videos appear in the search result, statistically there will be more YouTube videos than any other website because of the fact that YouTube has so many more videos than the other video sharing websites.

There is also the fact that Google could show bias to its own products and therefore only return YouTube videos in search results. Google denies doing this, but there have been examples when this has in fact been the case. If Google is the largest search engine in the world and is not showing Vimeo videos in search results then it will be very difficult for Vimeo to become more popular.

One thing that may work in Vimeo’s favour is the fact that YouTube has so many ads these days. Ads appear before, after and now in the middle of some YouTube videos, which many people find extremely irritating. Vimeo offer a ‘Plus’ membership where advertisements will not be shown when members are logged in. Providing that this stays at good value for money, it could be a major reason for people to begin switched to Vimeo from YouTube.

There are also several other annoyances for YouTube users such as the fact that YouTube keep closing accounts, and the YouTube autoplay feature doesn’t work for a lot of people. These may be too much for some people to put up with and if they begin to search online for a YouTube alternative, Vimeo will be the most popular result.

Guns N Roses Biggest 80s Band according to YouTube

It’s official – November Rain is the 80s video with more views than the rest, and by quite some distance. In fact, it gets over 500k new views every DAY, not bad considering it was released 26 years ago. The idea of Guns N Roses has become as big, in some respects, as Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. GNR had and have a mythology that is so massive it actually has grown in their public visibility. Instead of not being able to live up to the hype and expectations the idea of a GNR reunion has made fans more insatiable, hence the Appetite box set as fans either relive their past with the group or new fans discover the music and hype that made GnR iconic.

Remember when all those people complained about how long Chinese Democracy was taking or wondered what Axl was thinking? Yeah, neither do most other people. Turns out he knew what he was doing all along.

Guns ‘N’ Roses may or may not be the biggest rock band in the world today. But no one can argue their place in history has only grown. The biggest video of the ‘80s on YouTube? It’s not, as you would expect Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” or anything from Prince’s Purple Rain or a Madonna clip. It is Guns ‘N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child O’ Mine” at 692 million views. SO GNR have the biggest videos of the ’80s and ’90s. Damn.

Embedding YouTube into your Prestashop Store Guide

PrestaShop installation might be a daunting process for many but running the store isn’t. It is the most modern Content Management System for online shops at the moment. In this guide, I’ll help you to embed YouTube videos into your PrestaShop Store. It is slightly tricky, isn’t it? You’ll find yourself more confident in the end of this tutorial.

 

  1. Log into your PrestaShop and Click on Catalogue Products as shown below:

Now, you can see your products list, if any.

Click on button to enter into details of your products.

Now you are on your Product Page.

Scroll down to Description which is next to Short Description.

Do check below.

Click on Tools Source Code as shown below:

And a new editor will pop-up to paste the embed code of your YouTube video.

Now grab your YouTube video embed code as shown below:

Set up necessary elements like video size, video titles, and frame controls. If you need more advanced options for customizing YouTube check out our free Embed wizard tool here, with other 30 customizations.

Now paste into your source code dialogue box.

And, check Preview:

 

There are paid modules for Prestashop which provide more flexibility to add YouTube videos but can be very expensive for a new store. Wish you good luck with your business!

 

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