A few days ago, I received 2 emails forwarding the new OK GO -- This To Shall Pass video. Their inital viral video sucked me into being a fan. This band gets it. Viral videos can make you. And they don’t just do it, they go ALL out.
When I initally showed this to my husband, I noticed it only had 78,000ish views. I told Sean, let’s check it in a few days. Well here I sit, writing a blog post and watching Anderson Cooper -- he just mentioned this. I went and watched again -- WHAM 2,095,808 views! And by the time I post this -- that number will rise even higher.
Having a husband and son who LOVE Rube Goldberg machines, made this video even more popular in our casa. My 4 year old watched it at least 3x, paying attention to each detail and making silly comments. My husband it busy trying to figure out how a effects b -- and as for me and Z, we just love the music.
Syyn labs, a creative engineer group helped put this together, as well as SUPER clever marketing sponsor State Farm. Notice the truck in the opening?
State Farm logo, then the thank you at the end. Brilliant partnerships all around, but State Farm, who would of thunk they could make this fit? Taking chances with unlikely partnerships pays off!
If you haven’t watched the first huge viral video from Ok Go -- check it out here. This launched their career, sold millions of records and who even knows how much money they are making from YouTube marketing. This video currently has 49,925,634 views!
If you are going to do it, go all in or stay home. Everyone wants this type of success -- but it takes risk and not conforming to the man to make it happen.
YouTube allows millions of people to discover, watch and share original video content.
Interesting fact: 20 hours of new video is uploaded to YouTube every minute
What does that mean? Your video is a needle in a haystack. If you are going to utilize this platform to increase SEO and awareness of your brand, learn how to better optimize your videos for maximum play.
Here are a few videos from Greg Jarboe, from SEOPR on how to make your videos known:
Optimize YouTube vidoes and 3 key steps on how to do it
National Marriage Week seeks to encourage couples to reflect on the milestones of their marital relationship, remembering why they fell in love in the first place, and take the opportunity to be intentional about creating goals for their marriage.
So rather than me reflecting on the last 12 years of marriage to my beloved, I thought I’d ask my 6 year old, Z -- what marriage is. Wow, I can’t wait for her to get married.
Yesterday Sean and I went to a specialist for a hi-def ultrasound of Itty Bitty. Dr. P (my obgyn) suggests at between 11-13 weeks going to do this for screening for any abnormalities. We had about 30 minutes with the ultrasound tech -- watching the screen as she checks this and that. Itty Bitty looks beautiful! All tests were passed with flying colors. We would love I.B. regardless -- but knowing we have a healthy baby is sigh of relief.
After the tech was complete, the Doctor came in and did his screening and then asked if we wanted to know the sex. After much debate, we decided the best way to go was to have it written down, put in an envelope and then find out as a family what the sex of our new addition is. Some how we managed to wait 24 hours. So, this afternoon, we gathered around the couch and did the big reveal. Of course I had to capture on video. Let’s just say E’s reaction is priceless.
If you know me, you know I have an OBSESSION with Wisps. It’s sick, I have one of these things hanging out of my mouth everyday after lunch or breakfast. If you REALLY know me, you should know I LOVE infomercials (R.I.P. Billy Mays). So, when I just forwarded this video, I HAD to share. It’s as if my 2 loves mated. And the above is the baby.
A few years ago, my j-o-b gave up the $1,000 month bill to a streaming video service and we switched strictly to the social media outlets for hosting our videos. Since YouTube is the biggest and most well known, thought I’d share a few of the YouTube hacks that I’ve learned as video. Plus this way I have them all in one spot for reference.
Embedding a YouTube Clip:
You can scrap most of the code when embedding. Here is the before and after.
Playing YouTube Videos in Word Press Self Hosted Blogs:
There are numerous YouTube video plug-ins now for Word Press. On all of my blogs, I use Smart YouTube. It’s SUPER easy to use.
Install the plugin. When you want to place a YouTube video on your page – just copy the URL of the YouTube video into your HTML and place a v in the http.
