Hello XDA,
I've been fooling around with this site for a couple days now, and it's so entertaining, I figured I had to share it with you fellow XDA members.
It's a fun, bad-economy themed site, where the idea is that corrupt bankers are responsible for our bad economy, so we can now get revenge on them by shooting them with a paint ball gun connected over the Internet (in real time!).
I would recommend that anybody who reads this check it out. It's 100% free, but it cost the site founders well over $10,000, so if find you really enjoy it, then you should subscribe to their youtube channel (at no cost) here: http://www.youtube.com/tedrejects. When they get 30,000 subscribers, they get $3,000 from an anonymous donor, which will fund them for a really long time. It's a wonderful way to waste time, and I hope you check it out.
Dave
P.S. This isn't spam at all, I just thought this site was fun enough that everybody here at XDA should know about it. However, if this is seen as spam, I will be more than happy to remove it, or to let it be removed by a mod/admin. Thank you.
Hey guys, wanted to post this publicly because I think we can throw ideas around, not just between people on XDATV but with anyone interested. Basically, I want to share some of the things I've learned from youtube over the years about optimizing the impact of our videos. If we work together on this, everyone benefits.
I assume everyone wants to see their view count go up. We make videos for people to watch, and the view count says how many times they've been watched. So that's the goal, and these ideas are all about achieving that goal. For each idea, I'm putting what we'd do, and then explain why.
1. Post only on your designated day--or if you must, on a day when no one else is posting--so there is only one video posted per day.
Most of the views come from that Latest Video on XDATV box on the right hand column on the portal. At the very least this idea is a courtesy to one another because we aren't taking time on that prime real estate away from each other. Our videos shouldn't compete with our other videos. We're working as a whole, however disjointedly. I wouldn't post more than one video a day even on my own channel for the very same reason. Actually, that's not true... I have posted more than one video in a day on my youtube channel before, with the explicit intention of burying the first. Because that's what posting more than one video a day does.
Videos do not work like blogs. Especially not when the videos are time-sensitive, as many of our videos are. And looking on every other tech blog that also makes videos, you'll see they do this too. The reason the first video gets so few views is because even the most dedicated viewers tend to check Youtube only once per day. Also, the longer a video goes before the next is posted, the more views it gets. Something to keep in mind if you want to post more in a week than your timeslot allows.
2. Tell the viewers to subscribe to the youtube channel, or at least to check out more of our videos.
Currently, our videos are averaging more views than the xdadevelopers youtube channel has subscribers. While that's a good indication of future growth, it still means that more people are watching than are subscribed. Often, people just forget to do it. Given the linear growth in subscribers versus the radically varying video views, it means that we aren't building a steady viewer base, we're mostly getting one-time views in passing.
Now, I know we're here more or less to provide a service to the forum, and if that's all we want XDATV to be, then there's no reason to follow this idea. However, XDATV could be a great marketing tool for xda-developers, which would make the relationship between XDATV and the forum less parasitic and more symbiotic. Bad analogy, but I can't think of a better one right now. I can't think of any reason why we wouldn't want XDATV to bring people to the forum and likewise, instead of only the forum bringing people to XDATV. Our subscriber count means nothing on the forums, but on Youtube, subscribers mean baseline views. (And if videos are getting far fewer views than the channel has subscribers, something went very wrong. That's the case with my channel, went on too many hiatuses.) Building it needs to be a big focus.
3. Provide links, article titles, tags, and video titles with each video.
For the most part we all provide article titles and links, but the more, the better. Internet searches pick up on everything in the video description, so the more detailed it is, the more traffic your video will get. Tags and video titles are the same, but we don't do them. Tags provide keywords. You know this, I'm just reiterating. Imagine every reason you can that someone might need your video. Your tags should be all the words you think they would search to find your video.
Lastly, the video titles. When I find tech videos for other sites, if it's news they title it with one or two of the biggest headlines, put ambiguously. That way people searching for any related headlines will be more inclined to watch. Stuff like "NEW EVO 3D!!!!" or "Xperia Mini Revealed!" And so on. And trust me, people click it. If it's a tutorial, review, or even interview, the title tends to be what you can do with the info in the video. Chad sorta did that a bit ago, but it should be simpler. Something like, "Root Your Desire HD". Shawn, your interview with Mendozinas could have been titled "Make Your Own Themes on Android". The titles are relevant, but capitalize on what people can get out of it, rather than what it's about or, as we're titling them now, what it is. And then, providing these things for Svetius will make his job a whole lot easier.
I was pretty sure I had more, but I forgot for now. So go make words below this post, preferably in some coherent order and pertinence.
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Werd. Agreed. I don't give XDA as much love as I give the other two sites I work for. I might start soon.
Azrienoch, the podcast should also pick up the viewing count and any description added to the files, so such information is always good, particularly links.
I just hope that we can get the update process sorted out so you guys can do your encoding and then update the podcast without any effort on your part. I'm not sure what we need to do to submit the podcast to iTunes etc, but I am reluctant to do so until the podcast is updated promptly (I guess I could open it up for other users to upload the videos instead, but that creates other issues).
At the moment, there will be a two week gap in updates as I won't be able to do it until the end of the month.
There are still some adjustments I want to make to it (icon, description etc), so if you guys want anything altered or changed then let me know. Most parts are adjustable (I've noticed that meltwater is in the copywrite bit - it only showed up on my GoogleReader, I'll remove it when I can - it is because I'm using my FeedBurner version of the youTube feed to get around my access issues...which I setup a while back).
If we want to move it to a common account or something then it will have no effect on the podcast link itself (as you just update feedburner account). Also we can set-up a common feedburner account too if you guys want to view the stats.
As of Today, the stats are: 896 views of 34 items
If only youtube would re-enable the rss feeds directly and then the podcast would also count on the viewing count too. I can also add a podcast item about subscribing to the channel too, but not everyone wants to use data-plans to access content on the go.
A better line of communication with the news team and owners/maintainers of the site wouldn't hurt, either. At the present time it's like a 5 story office building, and the door is locked to each floor, so you have to call and request it to be opened over intercom.
Today's stats are: 1,446 views of 34 items
Shame as it is just starting to grow, it won't be updated for a while.
meltwater said:
Today's stats are: 1,446 views of 34 items
Shame as it is just starting to grow, it won't be updated for a while.
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No worries, man. We're in this for the long haul.
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No worries, man. We're in this for the long haul.
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Shall look forward to the new videos when I return! Cheers.
Great tips, Jeff.
I have a spare Spotify invite(s) and wanna share it with my fellow Nook Color users (I know it should be in the off-topic forums, but I don't want random people I have never seen or spammers and trolls spamming me for invites). There is a contest for it, so post a good reason why you want/deserve Spotify in the US. Also note that this contest will be over in four (4) days. There will be a runner-up. Be creative!
*To those who say you can us a UK proxy to make an account and transfer it to the US: You will get a 20 hour per month limit. US Invites will give you unlimited hours (at least until it becomes public)
Simply because I'm quiet a fan of getting into beta releases of almost anything i can get my hands on. Since I am a big fan of music (who isn't) it would be pretty neat to get a shot at getting an invitation.
good luck to all the entries!
If it actually worked, it would be worth getting excited about. It hung on several songs for me, which based on the spamware forum they use for hosting is a common problem (even ads hang!), and there's a surprising amount of material missing from their catalog. Combine that with an Android application that doesn't stream and you've got a nice pile of suck. It's too bad. I had high hopes based on the hype...
Rodney
rhester72 said:
If it actually worked, it would be worth getting excited about. It hung on several songs for me, which based on the spamware forum they use for hosting is a common problem (even ads hang!), and there's a surprising amount of material missing from their catalog. Combine that with an Android application that doesn't stream and you've got a nice pile of suck. It's too bad. I had high hopes based on the hype...
Rodney
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Exactly...
Waking up this thread again, instead of creating a new one.
I have 25 Spotify invites, if anyone's interested. PM me with your email address, the first 25 will get an invite. No answer to your PM simply means no invite.
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