YouTube Experiment successful
So my youtube experiment is as successful as I hoped it would be. It was great seeing the video climb to the top of the “lupe fiasco shining down” search results and it is now #1. I think I have a handle on how youtube’s ranking system works. It works a lot like SEO (which isn’t too surprising since Google owns YouTube now) and I have pretty good experience with google seo.
Like regular seo, youtube rankings looks for authentic, good videos. You can’t fake the funk. You need high ratings and steady, exponential growth of view counts to get to the top. My video has been up there the least amount of time but climbed to the top because it is truly unique content (as far as I can tell). I haven’t seen anyone else analyzing songs. It’s great to put my English lit degree to use, doing close readings on songs I love rather than hundred+ year old poems that aren’t nearly as culturally relevant as Lupe Fiasco’s songs.
The best part of all has been the comments. I get emailed whenever someone subscribes or leaves a comment and it never ceases to amaze me to see my creation getting so much appreciation. Of course half of the comments are the typical Lupe vs Wayne and top5 debate, but that’s always a fun debate to have (and a necessary one).
I’m just about finished with my next youtube experiment which is Lupe Fiasco’s most recently leaked song from his upcoming album. Gonna put final touches on it and then submit it toyoutube. Hopefully I don’t face copyright issues.
Before last year, the last time I used Sony Vegas was maybe 4 years ago. I remember the older versions being much harder to use – They’ve done a good job making it user friendly. But it’s still a lot harder to use than, say, windows movie maker.
Man I think the Shinning Down and Beaming analysis video’s were great! I’d thought of doing the same (except with songs of Food & Liquor) but post it on Facebook instead, lol. But this is good work, keep it coming.
Was an interesting read… nice.