If you are an upcoming musician you wish for more views for your music video. In our fast living world, it’s pretty hard to grab somebodies attention. Did you know that it only takes about 5 seconds until somebody decides if you are worth listening to or not if he meets you in person? This is crazy and you have to be aware of that for your career in general but also for your videos
Grab attention
Use the first couple of seconds of the video to show something that the audience didn’t expect. You have to grab their attention because there are many distractions today. Remember in case your potential fan watches your video at his desktop at home, he probably got the tv running in the background at the same time, he is probably checking Instagramgram at the same time and he’s already checking the recommended videos next to your video. So you really have to grab the attention in the first seconds. Do something extraordinary, sting from the crowd!
Tell a Story
You probably know it by now we are big fans of telling a story! Storytelling is one of the most important skills in marketing in general! Like mentioned above first you have to grab their attention, but to really make them watch the video there has to be a story. They should be interested in what this music video, this story is about. How will it end? This is how you make them watch the full music video and therefore get your story told. And believe me, if they relate to your story, they will check out more of your music and share you with their friends
Length
This is especially important for Youtube. Youtube works with different algorithms. One of the key indicators for youtube is the length of how long the average view time is. If your video is 7 minutes because you have a story in your video, and people watch it to the end you automatically have longer view time than most music videos on Youtube! And even if they stop watching the video in the middle you’re still competing with the average music full video view time. So the better your view time the better your ranking gets and the better your ranking the more views you get!
Tags
This is another very important task. A lot of upcoming musicians don’t use the tags in youtube when they upload. The tags help Youtube to categorize you and put you where they think you hit the right audience. If you got almost zero views it’s because your video does not get shown to the relevant crowd. Next time you upload a video to youtube make sure to use relevant tags so you get ranked around similar content so the right audience actually gets the opportunity to watch your video.
Alright, these were some tips how you can get more views on Youtube. If you have experience with Youtube and want to share with the community please share in the comments. Also let us know if you did try the tips and share your results with us
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