Yikes! YouTube Is Promoting My Competition!

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Hope this reminder helps someone of you to plug a leak in your marketing.

1. I have a local Home Security business.

2. I promote & legitimize it with a simple website.

3. I have an introductory welcoming video embedded from YouTube.

Here's the HORROR...

4. Whoever watches it is then led to videos by my competition! Lots of them! Better videos than mine! (Not better service, but a lost potential customer will never know that).

Anyway, gotta hand it to YouTube. They're doing a GREAT job of potentially syphoning off some of my prospects.

Needless to say, I need to replace my YouTube embeds.

Any suggestions for a video player? Advantages, disadvantages?
#competition #promoting #yikes #youtube
  • Profile picture of the author butters
    I never used it but I hear amazon is good.
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  • Try flowplayer -- simple to set up and easy to customize.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikemac1
    You can still use your YT video, here's what to do...

    Go to you video on YouTube and click the customize button next to the embed code

    In the selections below, uncheck the "Include related videos"

    Now when someone is finished watching your video, they won't see the competitions.
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  • Profile picture of the author timelessreader
    If I understand what you're talking about, you can:

    1. Find your video on YouTube
    2. Click the embed Code
    3. UNCHECK the box which says "Include related videos"
    4. paste the code into your site

    Then it shouldn't include the related competitor videos
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  • Profile picture of the author Loren Woirhaye
    For the most pro look and viewer experience you need to self-host.
    Even if you turn off the other videos in YouTube, people can
    still click on the YouTube logo and it will take them there.

    YouTube hosting is unreliable too. I prefer Viddler as a free
    host for embeds over Youtube, but it has many of the same problems.

    Self-hosting is where it's at. It's cheap to do, but not if you use
    Amazon s3 - which jacks the bandwidth price up by about 2000%.

    You can self-host streaming video on your existing webhost and
    have great, professional-looking video that loads fast, doesn't
    stutter, and leaves your customers feeling good about doing
    business with you. How to do it is beyond the scope of a post
    here - there are many details to know about how to set it up
    that come from experience.

    I can set this up for you. Fee.
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    • Profile picture of the author terryrayburn
      Thanks for the tips, everybody!

      For the meanwhile, I "unchecked" the "include related videos", while I figure what else I may want to do.

      Thanks, Chris, for letting me know I needed to repaste the code. I wondered why it didn't work just to uncheck the box -- slow, simple, and include the obvious...those are the kind of directions I need
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