Holding A YouTube-Blog Contest!

by Charles on 28 August 2007

There’s one very powerful marketing outside the world of blogging happening on the Internet… Something which is already on the net being utilized by many of us already… But it just caught my attention when I was on a lookout for more marketing ideas. That’s what YouTube called it “Video Responses”. Yes, you might tell me that you knew about it already… But just imagine you able to capture the market instantly…

There’s one girl on YouTube who seems to be having fun talking to the world with video. Being able to tell the world something and asking for responses, that’s what many businesses has been paying huge amount of money to do it! Her name is Emmalina. While many blogs out there have been doing blog contests, she is doing a Video contest, offering just $5! And people just response to it!

Take a look here.

And below are 3 of the many responses she has received! Click here for more!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsYRZZeB1q4[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Ps06n7U_0[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUMODlbQ9Rw[/youtube]

What’s so amazing is that if a person is able to hold a contest successfully over YouTube, it means that there is a potential of getting to the mass which could be faster than just blogging! It is amazing to see how marketing can be done from Video responses! It is nothing new, but it is definitely worth to look at to get a bigger market share in your blog or other forms of website!

While there are many forms of marketing online, video is something viral! Just imagine when I start to talk about Emmalina over here… You can be the potential market for her to look at when you find out more about her! Being able to embed videos on websites is the most powerful marketing tool ever created… Thanks to YouTube…

Let’s take a look of how we can make the best out of this powerful tool in blogging world which I am experimenting now. We can call for a contest on our blog, and letting the people in YouTube know more about the contest and participate by commenting… Or even a Video Response on their blog, linking to your blog!
Look at how many market openings you have created…
1. Your own blog
2. Other people’s blog
3. Your own video on YouTube
4. Other people’s YouTube response

With four openings to your contest, you will be able to see how many more other openings it can create when people start to embed your video code on their blog talking about how cool your contest is!

  • This is really interesting! I keep trying to think of out side the box content ideas, but she really found one.
  • Yup! She's one girl who has been making herself known on YouTube! She has a lot of thoughts she just share on YouTube, while many other people share on blog...
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