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YouTube Insights
Has anybody who has stuff on YouTube ever played with this? It's pretty trippy to me.
My most popular thing on my YouTube page has almost 500 views. As soon as I get 2000 views I will be able to say "Thousands of people have seen my stuff online." All but one other thing has yet to break triple digits (everybody access my stuff on different computers so it looks like I have more unique visitors!) Still I could say, "It has been seen by people around the world."
The insights time line lets you see in a given time, how many people have seen your piece and where were they? This is depicted numerically with a line graph and in gradated color from black-green to pale green on a world map. Most of the time, The United States is black and England or Canada is green. Sometimes Canada is black and the United States paler. One day I was seen in Australia but not here. And just doing this and thinking, "Wow! Somebody in Germany/Argentina/India/New Guinea saw my animations!" What really tripped me out was I did this briefly with my friend's bridal shower slide show and saw that one day somebody saw it in Austria but not the US. (Granted, they probably clicked on it accidentally and immediately hit the back button). Still, Austria? What did somebody search in Austria that made it come up?
The last thing I will say about YouTube is I wish they had groups. And then you could go to a group page, and see the channels who are in the group and go from there. It would be cool to have a BECA or BECA Grad group. I know we've got this here, but YouTube has the brand recognition. Then you could also use that as a promotional venue for the department.
My most popular thing on my YouTube page has almost 500 views. As soon as I get 2000 views I will be able to say "Thousands of people have seen my stuff online." All but one other thing has yet to break triple digits (everybody access my stuff on different computers so it looks like I have more unique visitors!) Still I could say, "It has been seen by people around the world."
The insights time line lets you see in a given time, how many people have seen your piece and where were they? This is depicted numerically with a line graph and in gradated color from black-green to pale green on a world map. Most of the time, The United States is black and England or Canada is green. Sometimes Canada is black and the United States paler. One day I was seen in Australia but not here. And just doing this and thinking, "Wow! Somebody in Germany/Argentina/India/New Guinea saw my animations!" What really tripped me out was I did this briefly with my friend's bridal shower slide show and saw that one day somebody saw it in Austria but not the US. (Granted, they probably clicked on it accidentally and immediately hit the back button). Still, Austria? What did somebody search in Austria that made it come up?
The last thing I will say about YouTube is I wish they had groups. And then you could go to a group page, and see the channels who are in the group and go from there. It would be cool to have a BECA or BECA Grad group. I know we've got this here, but YouTube has the brand recognition. Then you could also use that as a promotional venue for the department.
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Comment by Adam Greenfield on March 22, 2009 at 10:23pm
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Cheers for sharing the insights, Amanda. My highest rated video, "Guernsey on Speed", a sped up car journey of the perimeter of my island home of Guernsey, had over 17,000 hits. Unfortunately (or fortunately from my point of view), I recently removed the video because I was no longer comfortable promoting the idea of a long car journey, what with my vow to take no car journeys in 2009. But it was really rewarding seeing the hit counter get so high and it undoubtedly spurred me on to make further videos. The internet really is marvelous.
As for a BECA Youtube channel, it's a good idea. I believe I considered it a year or so back and can't remember why I didn't go further with it. The reason might have been that I felt it better to have our own dedicated website, but I concur with your point about visibility. If you're interested in pursuing this idea, then why not start uploading your own BECA videos and tagging them "BECA"? (However, I recommend also uploading the videos to Becadigi also.) I'm not sure the department would lend its backing to the idea, though, because Youtube is owned by a private corporation and BECA is owned by a public university. The department would rather the videos uploaded to a place not subject to changing corporate conditions. (By the way, Becadigi is also facilitated by a private entity and thus shares the same weakness).
Incidentally, because you were talking about BECA on Youtube, I looked up BECA and came across a cool video that I'm going to link here. Thanks for the nudging!
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