The question everyone, including Karen, is asking is "can you buy YouTube views?" What
do you think? I'm gonna say, probably not. Okay.
Up until the last couple weeks I would have said it's not worth it but now I've
started to have some success. So I'm gonna show you and we'll actually
demonstrate it.
Okay so the places that I've tried in the past. Fiverr is very
typical, I can come here it's a great website for project you know finding
simple tasks for people to do. I'm going to type in YouTube views for just one a
can you buy YouTube views all over the place. I will promote your YouTube
channel on our popular podcast that starts at 10 bucks. That will blow up
your YouTube video fast and save... So there's just tons and tons of options of
people. And I've tried several of these over the years. What happens is you get a
spike of views but you don't really see much organic growth from it. You don't
see comments you don't see likes you don't see any increase of subscribers so
when you see a surge of views, if they're real people that are on YouTube using
YouTube you'd think that it would translate into your channel growing. So
the quick answer with Fiverr is I'm just gonna say I don't care what they tell
you here it's probably not legit. But I'm gonna switch gears and show you another
service. I am not affiliated with this company Sprizzy. They actually use
YouTube ads. So this is through YouTube they're showing your videos to people on
YouTube already. So they're not taking in them from another environment or it's
not robots it's actually on YouTube. I tried it out I just did one test I'm
gonna do another one here with you now so I'll show you the results of the test
that I've done so far. Okay so there are minimum campaign for me to do this test.
By the way this is on a channel that I in fact... Let me just introduce it a
little bit, I'll bring up the channel. So this is a brand
new channel actually just launched this video two weeks ago tomorrow. So we'll
have our third episode lunch tomorrow because it's brand new I didn't have any
hesitation of like let's just do some experiments I tried this brand new
service, and in fact I've only spent $12.44 out of my $30 budget. Their
minimum was 30 bucks and what I can do is in the analytics for this YouTube
channel, you can see where the traffic comes from. But come over here to reach
viewers it will show traffic source types, and you see that 45% of the
traffic has come from YouTube advertising, another 35% is external. And
so you come down under external and you see that of the external 88% of that is
from Facebook. I don't typically recommend you do a lot of posting on
Facebook, but there's a Facebook group that's a whole food plant-based group.
This is actually a fitness video but I shared it with the group letting you
know that there's gonna be a lot of whole food plant-based recipes and stuff
on there. So that's where some of that other traffic's come from. Yeah exactly
right. This is something I've actually never seen before in stats but because
I've never done Spritzee or I've never paid for YouTube ads before but so far
twelve dollars and forty four cents of budget has gone towards YouTube
advertising and so that's where we've gotten. When I see the the big spike of
views that we had on July 10th and 11th that came from YouTube advertising I can
come over here and look at subscribers and see that yep we had a spike on the
10th and on the 11th you know what it's bringing in a few subscribers. What I've
seen before when I've tried Fiverr advertising, no new subscribers come from
it. So you know, to spend a few bucks get a few subscribers it's like well it
works is it extremely effective? I don't know. But at least I found something
that's real views. Okay so when we come back to the actual video on YouTube you
see that we did get eight people that liked it. One person that doesn't.
We've just got one comment with a couple likes on it again this is this is just
beginning stages but when I did, I paid promotion like this on Fiverr, you'd
never have any comments, you never have any likes, and yet we'd get like 10,000
views and it's just like okay this is obviously fake. I'll show you one more
thing in the analytics that is not as impressive because this is a six minute
episode you come in to reach viewers and you come down and you look at the
click-through rate and the average view duration. So the click-through rate it's
low it could be higher but it's no it's not terrible but this is actually a very
low average view duration. You know for a six minute video I would love to see a
50%. You know at least three minutes maybe two and a half but I have
something that's less than a minute. That's what I predicted that I've
worried about doing ads like this on a channel that's got a high average
view duration you know if a channel is averaging around 5 but then I pay for a
whole bunch of traffic that's getting less than 1 minute then my overall
channel stats are gonna decrease and I worry that that'll hurt me. So kind of
the jury is still up with this channel so brand new that I didn't I didn't have
that that word. Yeah so my kids have a comedy channel it's called Comedy Kid
Skits, so we posted this video it says one day but it was two days ago
it's it's a really cute skit it's got 23 views I'm not gonna tell them that I'm
gonna advertise their video and pay for views but I really want this video to do
well, because when they see high numbers they get excited and they want to film
more videos. So I'll copy the link to this video I'll come in here to Spritzee
we'll add a campaign and I'll just paste
therefore it's now searching for the video. Absolutely. I found the video and
ultimately you know it's gonna, it's gonna go for views but it kind of wants to
know what my secondary objective is do I want likes, do I want website views? And
I'm like you know I really want subscribers. So I'll leave it at that and
then for targeting I'm gonna keep it on United States for now am I promoting a
song or band. No. Any keywords those are great and I'll just go for budget and I
think my minimum I'm like if I put in 10 bucks will it let me guess it typed it
to you so let me do 20 bucks. Nope it says 30 is the minimum I'll have it start
immediately I'll have it delivery speed being normal set a budget of 70 and I
get 10% okay not this time. All right select my card you guys will have to
look away okay it's X dot there sweet confirm payment okay it's been submitted
for approval it should be approved and live within a business day. For some
reason when there's a delay on it, it makes me feel better like somebody a
real person's actually reviewing it right. So now now we've got thirty
dollars of investment in that video to get views and and subscribers for my
kids YouTube channel. There are drawbacks because it has such a low
average view duration but maybe my kids sketch there will be so popular that
that won't matter. So I guess the answer is
yes and no. Just know your... I would say be very careful with it. A service like
this I definitely think is a lot better. It's actually going through YouTube to
get you the traffic which there's got to be some advantages to that as opposed to
spam or robots that are skidding your fake views. If you liked this episode
you're definitely gonna like the next one because we're gonna go deep into
YouTube analytics and show you what's important and valuable and how you can
use YouTube analytics to make better videos in the future that even get better results.
So we'll see you in the next episode.