A Simple Tactic on How tо Get More YouTube Views

You’ve just posted your recent YouTube video masterpiece. You’re super excited about how this creation you’ve worked so hard to make is now ready for the world, and you wait in anticipation for legions of people to comment telling you how great your video is….

…Except you don’t get more than a few dozen views.

After three days.

You’ve thrown a party, but nobody is showing up.

That’s depressing, I know. But it’s your own fault; you can’t expect people to know where your video is unless you tell them where to find it.

Getting noticed on YouTube іs pretty easy to do, but you need tо take action to let viewers know the video exists. There are the usual places like Facebook and Twitter, but there are also many websites that accept video submissions for different types of content. If your video is featured on some of them, you’ll attract a huge audience.

Whatever your reason іs fоr posting your videos оn YouTube,  оn how tо gеt YouTube views tо successfully gеt subscribers and viewers. Тrу submitting your video to this list of sites below and watch your viewership rise sky high.

This list of sites to submit your YouTube videos to is currently over 90 sites long!

Social bookmarking sites

  1. http://reddit.com
  2. http://slashdot.org
  3. http://stumbleupon.com
  4. https://twitter.com/
  5. https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard
  6. http://www.pinterest.com/
  7. http://www.connotea.org
  8. http://delicious.com
  9. http://folkd.com
  10. http://friendfeed.com
  11. http://diigo.com
  12. http://www.plurk.com
  13. http://www.kaboodle.com
  14. http://segnalo.virgilio.it
  15. http://social-bookmarking.net
  16. http://www.buzznet.com
  17. http://www.bebo.com
  18. http://www.pusha.se
  19. http://www.thisnext.com
  20. http://tagza.com
  21. https://storify.com/
  22. http://www.blinkx.com/
  23. http://animeshinbun.com/  – Anime related only
  24. http://n4g.com/ – Gaming related only
  25. http://filmwatch.com/ – Movie related only
  26. http://techspy.com/ – Tech related only
  27. http://www.4chan.org/
  28. http://knowyourmeme.com/
  29. https://news.ycombinator.com/ – tech related only
  30. https://medium.com/@Medium/medium-for-companies-3d2a5b542355

 

Blogs You Can Submit Your Videos To

Blogs are the modern newspapers and magazines, and they can drive a ton of traffic to your videos. It is in the interest of a blog to constantly post new content to keep their readers coming back, and submitting your videos can possibly get them featured on these blogs.

  1. http://www.buzzfeed.com/post
  2. http://buzzfeed.tumblr.com/submit
  3. http://kottke.org/about/
  4. http://mashable.com/submit/
  5. http://laughingsquid.com/laughing-squid-tips-form/
  6. http://gawker.com/370687/submit-a-story-to-gawkercom
  7. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/contact/
  8. http://www.upworthy.com/pitch-us
  9. http://justsomething.co/contact-us/
  10. 9gag.tv video submission form
  11. http://www.collegehumor.com/static/write-for-us
  12. http://www.humortimes.com/videos/1805-user-submitted-videos/submission-form/
  13. http://www.cracked.com/forums/forum/your-cracked-worthy-videos
  14. http://submit.boingboing.net/  or http://boingboing.net/suggest.html
  15. http://www.playbuzz.com/create
  16. http://junkee.com/about
  17. http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/vsubmit.php
  18. https://gopro.com/videos/video-of-the-day/submit/
  19. http://devour.com/submit/
  20. http://www.infinitylist.com/submit-video/
  21. http://fametube.com/submit-your-video-and-become-famous/
  22. http://failblog.cheezburger.com/submit/
  23. http://www.itgetsbetter.org/page/s/submit-a-video
  24. http://www.yesfunnyyes.com/submit-video.html
  25. http://cuteoverload.com/submissions/
  26. http://www.viralviralvideos.com/forums/vvv-forums-group1/viral-videos-in-the-making-forum2/
  27. http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/
  28. http://couchbycouchwest.com/submissions/
  29. http://www.eatyourkimchi.com/submit-video/
  30. http://startup-videos.com/submit-a-video/
  31. http://www.onmedia.info/submit-video/
  32. http://www.viralvideocenter.com/p/submit-video.html
  33. http://filmmakermagazine.com/contact
  34. http://videorobo.com/submit-video/

 

Traditional News Agencies & TV Shows

Want to get your video featured on the evening news? Try submitting your content to these places.

  1. http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/ugc/
  2. http://ureport.foxnews.com/assignment?groupId=23915
  3. http://tosh.cc.com/blog/tag/submit
  4. http://www.ellentv.com/be-on-the-show/15/
  5. http://www.ocregister.com/video/submit/
  6. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/mailform?id=22915370
  7. http://www.mynews3.com/ugc/cat/SubmitPhotoandVideo/default.aspx
  8. http://youshare.azfamily.com/
  9. http://www.syfy.com/factorfaked/submitvideo
  10. http://useeit.abc7chicago.com/
  11. http://abc7.com/tips/
  12. http://queenlatifah.com/fun/comedy/submit-dance-video-now/
  13. http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/videouploads.html
  14. http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/photo-and-video-submission/

 

Where to submit Video RSS and MRSS Feeds

Including your YouTube channel RSS feed in these indexes will help your video rank higher in search engine results.

Where to find your YouTube channel RSS feed? It usually looks like this:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/channelusername/uploads

Just replace ‘channelusername‘ with your own channel’s user name and the feed should work!

Here are the sites for submitting RSS feeds:

  1. http://www.blinkx.com/rssupload
  2. http://www.clipblast.com/
  3. http://technorati.com/
  4. http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp
  5. http://www.feedage.com/
  6. http://www.feedcat.net/
  7. http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp
  8. http://www.icerocket.com/
  9. http://www.urlfanx.com/
  10. http://www.rssmicro.com/feedsubmit.web
  11. http://www.codango.com/asp/fnc/addres/rss/
  12. http://www.blogrollcenter.com/add_site.htm
  13. http://www.feedgy.com/Submit.aspx
  14. http://www.newsisfree.com/
  15. http://www.feedlisting.com/
  16. http://www.bloggernity.com/
  17. http://blogdigger.com/add.jsp
  18. http://feedgy.com/Submit.aspx
  19. http://www.fybersearch.com/our-services/add-url.php
  20. http://globeofblogs.com/register
  21. http://rssmix.com/

All of the above sites are perfectly valid places to share your videos. I hope you found this list to be helpful, and if you know of any other sites I should include in this list, please let me know.

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Author

Carey Martell is the President of Martell Broadcasting Systems, Inc. He is also the founder of the Power Up TV multi-channel network (acquired by Thunder Digital Media in January 2015). Carey formerly served as the Vice President of Thunder TV, the internet television division of Thunder Digital Media. In the past he has also been the Director of Alumni Membership for Tech Ranch Austin as well as the event organizer for the Austin YouTube Partner monthly meetups. Prior to his role at MBS, Inc. and his career as a video game developer and journalist, Carey served in the US Army for 5 years, including one tour of duty during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Carey is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Carey also moonlights as the host of The RPG Fanatic Show, an internet television show on YouTube which has accumulated over 3.7 million views.