Success through Social Media

Social Media sites are becomingly increasing popular for the use of promoting an individual brand or helping to find ones success. YouTube is an example of this. YouTube has helped discover the likes of Justin Bieber and Australian Cody Simpson.

Social Times have stated that the 10 tips for being discovered on YouTube are:

1. Create lots of content: “The more content, the more related video clicks, the bigger  

the reach”

2. Optimize your Metadata: Includes Title, Description and Tags

3. Utilize your Social Networks: Twitter, Facebook, Digg and more

4. Take Advantage of Annotations: Can create notes and links within your videos

5. Ask your viewers to subscribe: When a user subscribes they are more likely to come back

6. Respond to Feedback: Viewers like to feel as though they are involved

7. Don’t underestimate the power of the Bulletin: Social bulletin feature which allows content creators to post links and communicate with subscribers

8. Create Playlists: Group your content by themes

9. Choose the best Thumbnail: Choose the option which is the most attention grabbing

10. Create captions and subtitles: Add captions to videos so people of other countries can understand

Have a look at each point in detail at: http://socialtimes.com/10-tips-for-maximizing-your-discoverability-on-youtube_b16458

However, according to Wiki Answers, to get discovered on YouTube takes skill. Justin Bieber had been trying to find success for years on YouTube when finally he caught the attention of Usher and Justin Timberlake who both wanted to ‘discover’ him. Through constantly uploading and sharing videos Justin found his success. 

For all those wanting to be discovered on YouTube check it out here, http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_get_discovered_on_YouTube