It’s no secret that YouTube is a beast in the online video world! There are now 2 billion plus views each day on the site, and over 150 million viewers per month watch something on YouTube. The problem is that there are 13 hours of videos being uploaded every minute on the world’s most popular video sharing site. That means for your entertaining videos to break through the noise and clutter you will need to produce some pretty remarkable content, and hustle hard to get eyeballs.

When a video creator does a Spidvid project, to upload their video through our platform to UnleashVideo there is a much greater chance that viewers will actually see what you produced since there is much less competition for eyeball attention. Plus we help promote and market every video that gets uploaded. Most videos uploaded via Spidvid get at least 2,000 views as a result.

So the next time you upload your short entertaining video to YouTube, you may also want to consider running your video project through Spidvid with your team members and see what happens. Views, love, and attention are guaranteed!

Bonus: Run at least one of your past video projects through Spidvid this month, and we will send you 10 Spidvid stickers! This offer is only good for the first 10 video creators so get a Spidvid profile and start, or contact us so we can explain how everything works!

Embedded below is our favorite video that’s been uploaded in the last week. It’s a stop motion short film that’s very cute, and extremely well done by Thomas Nicol and Becky Griesheimer. Enjoy it, and share it with your friends and family if it makes you smile

Bedtime For Timmy from Thomas Nicol on UnleashVideo

When you upload a new entertaining video do you focus on getting attention from bloggers? If not, you should be looking for niche bloggers who write about video content which you produce. Get them to link to your videos, or better yet get them to embed videos directly within their posts so their audiences can watch right away on the same page.

Watch the video below to learn more about how to promote your videos to bloggers, and tap into their large audiences. Bloggers drive roughly 50% of all video views online, so blogger initiatives must be included in your marketing plan! We are proud to sponsor this how to video, along with GoDaddy.

About the creator - Travis Gordon is a video creator who manufactured the brilliant fantasy action web series Spellfury which has now amassed over 3 million views throughout its incredible existence! In addition to being a web series creator, he also teaches others on how to promote their videos to receive more views, comments, likes, subscribers, and love.

If you create videos that may interest us to sponsor, please contact us and let us know how we can mutually benefit together.

Travis Gordon is a video creator who manufactured the brilliant fantasy action web series Spellfury which has now amassed over 3 million views throughout its incredible existence! In addition to being a web series creator, he also teaches others on how to promote their videos to receive more views, comments, likes, subscribers, and love.

Spidvid has sponsored his latest video “How To Promote Your Videos” and it’s a worthwhile watch to learn how Travis promotes his video content like a rock star, and how you can too!

If you create videos that may interest us to sponsor, please contact us and let us know how we can mutually benefit together.

Bonus: Below is the trailer for Spellfury, enjoy!

My goal is to share a list post once a week here since so many video creators, producers, writers, and other talent enjoy the insights, knowledge, and the value they provide to do something better or more efficiently.

Tim Siglin from OnlineVideo.net attended Streaming Media Europe and compiled a list of takeaways for excelling using social media for increasing online video visibility, attention, and engagement. A “Friend Engine” means any social media tool that empowers viewers to share video content with their social networks.

Below is a summary of my favorite tips from Tim.

1. Facebook – Make sure your videos play directly in Facebook. Some of their key video sharing partners include YouTube and Vimeo.

2. Diverse social networking – Embrace a few different social networks to reach viewers such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, and wherever your niche audience socializes online. Don’t just treat each audience the same though, tailor your content and engagement strategy to each one individually.

3. Distribute everywhere – Get your videos uploaded to as many sites as you can, and see how each compare in terms of views, social interaction (tweets and likes), and engagement (comments and ratings). Get your entertaining videos up to UnleashVideo by doing past and future projects on Spidvid. A Spidvid team project can be completed and video uploaded in less than 20 minutes. If you want to learn more please contact us so we can give you all the juicy benefits for doing so.

4. Social media contacts – Build up your fans, followers, and subscribers and engage with viewers one on one to help build up your view count, video shares, and engagement. Good social capital takes a long time to earn, but it’s well worth the time investment and dedication commitment.

5. Video optimization –  Be sure to use good metadata! Your title is critically important, try to get your audience to think to themselves “WTF” so they will click on it out of pure curiosity to see the video. An interesting picture for your video thumbnail is integral too, choose whatever one you feel will attract the most views. If you are an number optimization nerd you may want to experiment and try different thumbnail images to see what works best.

6. Video transcription – If you can take the key dialog from your videos and create text to get the search engines to pay attention, then go for it. A flash video player on a page by itself has no SEO value.

Get four more tips from Tim right here, and use them to your advantage. You spend lots of time creating entertaining videos, so make sure to dedicate at least the same amount of time (or more) promoting and marketing them. If you want help in this challenging area, we can help you get more love, views, and attention for your videos!

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A lot of video creators contact us and say that they want to start using Spidvid, but aren’t actively working on a new project at the time. So what we tell them is to run their team’s past production projects through our system to provide them with team distribution for the videos, and so that we can partner with them on the promotional side to attract more views, attention, and love for their content. Spidvid wasn’t initially designed and developed for past projects, but it’s a good way to start using our platform, and understand how it can be leveraged for future projects. Plus a Spidvid project can be completed in as little as 4 minutes if all team members work together in real-time.

If you haven’t seen the demo video already for using Spidvid, we have embedded a female and male version below so you can complete a Spidvid project quickly and easily. And if you have any trouble or issues at all, just contact us and we would be happy to help you out via email, Twitter, or with a phone conversation.

And if you have video entertainment that tells a good story, is entertaining, has good production value, and you as a video creator are low on time to complete Spidvid projects, we will give you the Spidvid VIP treatment and do your team’s projects for you as requested. If you want to be a Spidvid VIP video creator or producer, then be sure to tell us why your team and content deserve the honor.

Female version – Spidvid Screencast Demo - How to complete a Spidvid project, and upload a video

Below is the male voice over version

And we’re excited to mention that the Spidvid community’s videos have almost reached 100,000 views (97,654 to be exact), the vast majority of them coming in the last couple months. Exciting times are ahead for the web’s open and collaborative video production ecosystem.

Are you a male or female actor based out of Southern California? Then you may be interested in James Yim’s upcoming short film project Heartbreak Heaven. A total of three actors are needed for this project, and no experience is necessary but it would certainly be a plus if you have some. The story centers around 3 different timelines of a couple struggling with their relationship. It’s all about joy, love, and heartbreak in this short film.

The script is 80% complete, and the 5-7 day shoot is set for later this month (June), or early next month (July). There is no pay offered as this is a non-profit film created specifically for the Web.

This project sounds very exciting for young actors looking to build their working portfolios, and to gain some valuable experience along the way. If you have some free time on your hands, and are seeking out new opportunities, then this film project could be an ideal fit for you.

With a Spidvid actor’s account you can place your bid on the Heartbreak Heaven project, or you can visit James Yim’s profile on Spidvid and send him a message to learn more about the film’s specific details.

This post in inspired by The Think Big Manifesto by Michael Port.

I have listed some quotes and questions from the book below, which inspires both Spidvid and our community to provide ideal environments to produce quality video content. There are some (Spidvid’s take) comments as well on how these quotes and questions relate to collaborative video production.

- Love is at the foundation of the very best collaborations. Spidvid’s take: any video will be produced better if the team members feel the love for each another.

- True collaboration is a give and take. True partnerships are founded in equality. Equality does not equal sameness. We don’t all bring the same skills or resources to the table, but we all bring something and we all need something. Spidvid’s take: every video project needs a diverse set of individuals to make things happen.

- The paradox: Big thoughts create independence, not dependence. Big thinkers act instead of compete. They discover that in an open, fluid, back and forth collaboration, in the free flow of ideas, when you can intrust yourself to the notion of trust, big thoughts get even bigger. Spidvid’s take: open and authentic collaboration will always yield better results than a closed silo type of approach. Our social platform has been developed using these key concepts.

- Collaboration levels: (1) Competitive interactions, (2) Cooperative transactions, and (3) Collaborative interactions. Spidvid’s take: there is competition for joining limited sized production teams, but healthy competition ensures projects receive the highest quality of talent possible. 2 and 3 are large parts of what our platform stands for.

- How do we find partners and collaborators? The same way you get a date. By believing in yourself and what you’re doing. When you are excited about a project, you will draw others to you. You will receive offers of help. More than you can even accept. Spidvid’s take: if the enthusiasm and confidence in your projects is evident it will motivate others to join your production teams, and the passion will trickle down to each member involved.

- People who play small think they have to do it all themselves. What about you? Are you ready to play bigger by truly collaborating with others? Spidvid’s take: our skills, talents, and outputs are limited when we are the only person working on a project. Working on a well coordinated team ensures that our projects get value which we can’t provide on an individual basis. Long live collaboration.

- Are you the kind of person people want to help? Do you enjoy collaborating with others? What kind of collaborations do you engage in? Can you take your partnerships to the next level? Who do you love?  Spidvid’s take: if you are open to leveraging a collaborative model, can delegate tasks to team members, and trust and believe in what your team is capable of, there should be lots of love when your videos are fully produced.

Statement of Collaboration

- I will be a person others want to work with.

- I will work with others without hidden or selfish intent to accomplish our mutual goals in the service of what each of us stands for.