Hare Krishna dear Devotees, please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
For the present time FACEBOOK & YOUTUBE are very popular web sites.
So we can use them in preaching & reaching many people.
So please share Your ideas, knowledge, information ... of how people make many views, have many subscribers, followers ...on their channels, pages!
Here are some things which we need to know:
1. How to increase the views of IDT Youtube channel videos? How to make them famous?
If we make many views it will make videos available in the search engines to many, many people. Also will replace karmic propaganda. Let people learn about Krishna not about exploiting sense objects, don't they?!
2. How to increase FACEBOOK likes? Again so that Web sites about Krishna become famous in this way people know about Krishna.
3. ... Some of Your points?
Also please share videos on IDT Youtube channel as much as You can with Your friends!
The same thing You may wish to do with Facebook also!
Thank You so much!
Your servant, bhaktin maral
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Twitter is something IDT should also be considering. I found this https://twitter.com/idtsevaks but I wasn't sure if this was the official IDT. The last tweet was yesterday I believe, after ~3 year gap. Keep it updated constantly. Make random KC posts, quote SP, add favorite verses.
Connect the youtube account to the facebook and twitter account, so each time IDT uploads a video, it is updated at the other two ends. Be sure to include in EACH VIDEO (or most) something along the lines of requesting them to like, comment, and subscribe. This should be done creatively and not in a begging manner; by creative I don't mean fancy artwork (though that might work), but I mean something that cleverly includes it into the video.
For example you can build up -- like --> subscribe (and be sure to mention to leave a comment > this can be done by simply stating - "what do you think, let us know in the comments below" .. Like / Comment / Subscribe ... the three golden words of Youtube
Another idea for youtube. Create another channel with the purposes of doing something different and feature it on the original channel and vice versa. For example, set something up so that each day there is something that people can look forward too.(of course this is assuming that devotees have the time to do this).
Just a random thought:
Mondays: Rise and Shine World -- this would be a short video on welcoming people to the new week (Monday's are usually the worst day of the week so something cheerful and entertaining)
Tuesdays: Favorite BG verse day! A devotee can talk about a particular verse from the Gita, excellent way to get some comments going!!
Wednesdays: Cooking Day! A devotee will teach how to make a particular food.
And one for each day of the week.
You would be uploading one video a day (and hopefully there are many devotees to help out so it isn't falling on one person since video editing isn't that easy), but it creates the want to come back for more. Promote both channels in videos (on IDT's channel you would promote "IDT Daily" (fictitious random name for the second channel) and vice versa).
To sum up, use your videos to market yourself, let people know to LIKE, COMMENT, and SUBSCRIBE (the mantra of youtubing) .
Feel free to use any of these ideas / words / stuff
Like / Comment / Subscribe
yes nice idea. And also not in begging form but in friendly mode.
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Thank You Prabhu, we will consider Your advice.
Your servant,
Humble Obeisances AGTSP
On utube the most viewed videos r available in the search engine as u said n also the top rated videos so everytime we watch the videos we can like them. Another way is maybe using some common names or some relevant topics people would search for as such IDT videos will also appear in the list. Haribol
yes, common words and titles are very important...
Hare Krishna Mataji ,
Its a very good idea that u came upon , to preach the masses about Krishna .
And yes Youtube is a very popular platform . Regarding how to popularize your videos on youtube , you should create your own channel / page there , then upload some videos and then you must go to other members' pages , which has similar content , and there you can post comments under their videos like how wonderful their videos are & so they should pay a visit to your page and something like that .
You can also post the links of your own uploaded videos on other members' channels to advertise them and also allow them (your youtube friends) to do the same on your page .
So once you start doing these , visitors are bound to come on your channel .
Also when you decorate your channel , or upload your videos write under each of your videos , that if they like it , they can subscribe to your channel . . . and you should also subscribe to other channels that you like , this way you will make more friends and visitors.
If you don't want to upload your own collection of videos , then you can even paste the krishna video links on your page that were uploaded by other members . Always try to stay in touch with your youtube friends or those who post comments and this way your channel will start to get more visitors .
Im saying this from my own experience , i created an youtube page back in 2009 on some classic music of 80s 90s and uploaded a few videos , but most of the videos on my page were links of other members' uploads , and yet i got over 50 thousand views if im not wrong . So you can even keep other members' uploads on your youtube page.
So yes mataji , you should go for youtube , but regarding facebook , i don't have much idea since i hardly use facebook.
Although from my little knowledge of facebook , i think there is a "create page" option on facebook , which you should use to start a blog , where you can post articles of Krishna . Still im not sure if this is the right way to do it since i don't use fbook regularly , so please forgive me mataji .
So do let us know when you're done on youtube , it will be pleasure to visit your channel :)
Hare Krishna :)
Thank You so much Travis Prabhu for such advice!
I was talking of our Youtube IDT Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/iskcondesiretree?sub_confirmation=1
Yes, we will use those ideas which You wrote here.
Your servant,
One way to increase the the views is by tagging several people and several pages, It will reach to lot of people.
tagging?
Usually, when someone tags in the images i do not like.
Maybe it is good but many people do not like it, do they?!
And yes we can try.
Thank You Prabhu!
Your servant,