Youtube Marketing Question?

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Is there a way to get people to subscribe to your Youtube Channel before they can watch one of your videos?
One of my clients is wanting this for his Video Production Agency.
#marketing #question #youtube
  • Profile picture of the author briankno
    I found a link that may help.

    You can create a button image and use this link to send them to youtube with an overlay of a subscription button.

    http://www.youtube.com/subscription_...BEUSERNAMEHERE

    or for the button on the page you can use the following code

    <iframe id="fr" src="http://www.youtube.com/subscribe_widget?p=YOUTUBEUSERNAMEHERE" style="overflow: hidden; height: 105px; width: 300px; border: 0;scrolling="no" frameBorder="0"></iframe>

    I found this on the youtube blogspot blog.
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    • Profile picture of the author angshuy2k
      That might be a bit hard, but if you are looking for subscriber for your channel, that can be supplied.
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  • Profile picture of the author mamadou douka
    Yeah Fiverr baby!
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  • Profile picture of the author FraggleJ78
    Yes you can make the video private. Then choose the people that you want to be able to view it. So in a sense you can reward your subscribers by giving them something of value for subscribing.
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    • Profile picture of the author sdentrepreneur
      Originally Posted by FraggleJ78 View Post

      Yes you can make the video private. Then choose the people that you want to be able to view it. So in a sense you can reward your subscribers by giving them something of value for subscribing.
      I thought to watch a private video, you have to send someone the private link but they don't have to Subscribe to watch.
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      • Profile picture of the author Marty S
        Originally Posted by sdentrepreneur View Post

        I thought to watch a private video, you have to send someone the private link but they don't have to Subscribe to watch.
        Yeah it would all have to manual, so I don't think your client will like that idea.

        The only thing I can think of is a slight work-around in having TWO different channels. Use a lead-in video on one channel that basically has a CTA saying "subscribe to the series on this other channel". You would then use a "subscribe" annotation in that video (long pause in the video editing) that brings the viewer to the other channel subscribe page. Boom. They are subscribed and have access to the video channel where you can lead them through a series of unlisted videos.

        I hope you mentioned to them how much better it would be to have an auto-responder video series though. Much more control imho.
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        • Profile picture of the author sdentrepreneur
          Good stuff guys !!! Thanks for the great ideas !!!


          Originally Posted by Marty S View Post

          Yeah it would all have to manual, so I don't think your client will like that idea.

          The only thing I can think of is a slight work-around in having TWO different channels. Use a lead-in video on one channel that basically has a CTA saying "subscribe to the series on this other channel". You would then use a "subscribe" annotation in that video (long pause in the video editing) that brings the viewer to the other channel subscribe page. Boom. They are subscribed and have access to the video channel where you can lead them through a series of unlisted videos.

          I hope you mentioned to them how much better it would be to have an auto-responder video series though. Much more control imho.
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  • Profile picture of the author desjardinsrr
    Hi,
    Interesting place here to learn and appreciate!
    I've got a problem. At the bottom of my name I have 3 social networking icons: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. If I click Twitter my access go through but not with YouTube and Facebook.
    Surely there's a technical easy way that would permit me to access youTube or Facebook...
    I'm looking here if I can find it?
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  • Profile picture of the author Joe Thio
    Originally Posted by sdentrepreneur View Post

    Is there a way to get people to subscribe to your Youtube Channel before they can watch one of your videos?
    One of my clients is wanting this for his Video Production Agency.
    If they find your video on youtube itself, then no. If you are embedding the videos on a website, there may be a plugin or something that could do that for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Josh Monroe
    I don't think you can so here is what I would do -

    Send them to a squeeze page where they can sign up to your list AND subscribe to your account.

    Upload all of your videos and make them unlisted, then place them into a playlist.

    Have someone code something using the API so when they subscribe you automatically send them an email with the link to your playlist.

    Now your hitting two birds with one stone - building your YouTube channel and your email list.
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