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James Schramko Podcast

1054 – Building Your YouTube Audience and Running Paid Traffic to Them

Jan 17, 2024
This podcast explores the significance of thumbnails for YouTube videos and the value of combining organic and paid traffic to boost your audience. It discusses building authority on YouTube, optimizing ad campaigns for e-commerce businesses, creating valuable content for the surfing market, and the importance of both organic and paid traffic. The speakers also share tips on rotating images for Google AdWords and how to effectively build a YouTube audience while running paid traffic.
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Quick takeaways

  • Combining organic and paid traffic strategies on YouTube is crucial for audience building and business growth.
  • Running search campaigns on Google Ads can enhance audience targeting and leverage YouTube audience intent through highly targeted ads.

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The Power of Combining Organic and Paid Traffic on YouTube

The podcast episode explores the importance of combining organic and paid traffic strategies on YouTube for audience building and business growth. The speaker emphasizes that relying solely on ads is not enough, and that creating engaging and helpful organic content is crucial. By creating valuable videos that target specific pain points and challenges within a niche, content creators can generate hyper-relevant traffic with a compound effect. The focus is on delivering content that directly addresses what the target audience wants and needs, and using research and data analysis to inform content creation decisions. The speaker also highlights the significance of thumbnails as the 'scroll stopper' and the importance of creating an engaging introduction, concise content, and a clear call to action in videos.

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