This project proved to be very difficult for me. Going in, I thought that I had the creative capacity to make an entertaining video that would garner plenty of comments. Once it came time to make the videos, I had no clue what I was doing. I knew that I wanted to sing, but I also wanted to try and do something a little wacky.
I didn't initially know how to go about marketing my two videos. I put them both on my Facebook page more than a few times, begging people for comments. I put them on Twitter, but because I only have 15 followers they didn't circulate very widely. One of my friends put them on his Twitter, but it didn't seem like any of his 100+ followers watched the videos or commented.
I put the videos on Digg, and the only one viewing them from that site was me. I tried to embed the videos on other YouTube videos in the comment wall, but that was way too complicated for me. In the end, I received about 6 or 7 comments on each of my videos, and I responded to some of them but got no response back.
The biggest problem I noticed was none of my friends wanted to take the time to make a YouTube account. They would comment right on my Facebook page. At least four or five people told me this. I had a comment stream of about eight people in one day right on my Facebook wall, but none of them went to the actual video to do it. Nobody other than friends or people from class commented either.
Another problem I think I created for myself was the titles of my videos. I wanted to put the word "Ginger" somewhere in one of them because who doesn't love a good ginger video now-a-days. I became too embarrassed to leave it up, so I changed Ginger to Me. The title was far too long for anyone to find in a random YouTube search, and that hurt me .
If I could go back and change some of my strategies, I definitely would. I think that my efforts resulted in an epic fail.
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