Marketing Speak 220. The Road to Millions of YouTube Views with Jeremy Vest
Whether you’re an artist, brand, or agency, you should be creating videos. And lots of them. Mark Zuckerberg famously predicted that the Facebook news feed will be mostly video in five years. That was a while ago now, so that day is coming sooner than you might think. But today we’re not here to talk about Facebook, we’re here to talk about YouTube, the number 2 search engine, and how to get more reach and watch time on YouTube. According to Ahrefs, YouTube was 2019’s most visited website in the world, with an average of 8.6 billion monthly organic visits! A fundamental tenet in marketing is to be where your customers are. And your customers are on YouTube, that’s just a fact. So what do you do to reach them on YouTube? Fortunately, I have some answers for you, because we have YouTube expert Jeremy Vest in the house! Jeremy is the Director of Marketing at vidIQ. He’s created video marketing strategies for a number of Fortune 100 companies and famous YouTubers. He’s had clients with billions of views and millions of subscribers. He’s YouTube certified and he speaks at VidCon, Social Media Marketing World, VidSummit, among others. Whether you’re new to YouTube or you’re a seasoned veteran, this episode offers game-changing advice. Even if you have zero presence on YouTube, it's not too late for you! You’re about to learn what it takes to makes a video go viral, how to SEO your YouTube uploads, what the YouTube algorithm is looking for, and so much more. On with the show!