You Tube Video

You Tube is a Social Media website which has well over 20 million members and is currently the second most visited website on the planet today after Yahoo.com. While we will be mainly focusing on youtube it is important to realise that there are other great social media web sites that we can also publish our videos to that are getting huge amounts of traffic and public exposure as well. Such as My Space, which is currently ranked #5, Facebook is currently ranked #6, Hi5 which is a kids Social Media website and is currently ranked #8 and of course Orkut is another great website and is ranked at position #10.

As you can see from above people love videos and the social media web sites that host them and the best thing is that they are free to use and publish your videos to. If you go further down the list you will see that there are many more social media web sites ranking extremely well with their only real competition being the Search Engines themselves. Of course will also look at a lot of these less known sites and get well acquainted with them.

How to make a You Tube Video

If you have ever visted sites like You Tube, My Space, Facebook or Orkut and wondered how they make the videos? Stop wondering and learn how to simply and easily make your own videos to share with the world. You can have you first ever home made video created and published to the world today.

Once you know how to make a video and how to edit it, your only limitation is your imagination.

Benefits of Video

The benefits of video are huge when you combine them with the traffic generated by places like You Tube, which is great if you are trying to get your message out or trying to get new visitors to your web site or blog.

Also they are an excellent tool for training as you will find out as you go through the you tube video tutorial. The ability to be able to watch and pause the video while you do the last step you just watched is unequaled by any other training medium. Missed a bit, not a problem, simply drag the scroll bar back past the last place you remember and watch it again.

We will also look at branding our videos with our URL's in the You Tube Video tutorial, as well as using tags to get noticed. Yet don't forget that you can also use the same methods we will be covering at all of the main Social Media sites. It is up to you how much exposure you want to get with your videos, as long as you abide by each of the web site's individual "Terms Of Service", you will be just fine and may even have some fun.