Sunday Cote

Hi All,

I wanted to get your thoughts and ideas about helping my son have a
fun experience with YouTube. He loves creating videos and sharing
them, but the social aspect of the whole YouTube community is
confusing to him. I've been trying to learn more so that I can assist
him, but much of it is confusing to me as well.

Are any of your kids involved with YouTube and if so, is there a way
to connect into that group of kids? I just feel that there's got to
be some unschooling kids having fun with making videos and sharing
them with each other. My son's YouTube account is GamerGuy628 if you
want to check it out. He'd LOVE it if some other unschoolers
commented, asked to be his friend or subscribed to his channel!

He really wants people to watch his videos and comment and become
subscribers, but doesn't know how to bring people to his channel.
I've tried to explain the viral effect of the videos that get watched
a lot, but that's not satisfying him. He's gotten some rude comments
and those who have wanted to join aren't kids but mostly teens and
older with some pretty weird stuff on their own channels. I've talked
to him about the fact that YouTube leans more to older people (My son
is 9) and that maybe there was a site out there that was similar to
YouTube but geared for a younger set. If you know of any, please let
me know.

YouTube has been a very creative and expansive experience for him. He
is an artist and has a passion for creating both animation and live
videos. Though he is a novice, I've been really amazed with all that
he has picked up just by watching other videos and trying different
ideas out for himself. Most of his humor is pretty typical 9 year
old boy bathroom humor and probably wouldn't be appreciated by uptight
moms! That's one of the reasons we haven't shared them with many of
our more traditional family friends. But I'm sure there are families
in this community who would appreciate his humor and artist talents!

This is all a big learning curve for both of us. Any thoughts would
be helpful!

Thanks,
Sunday

jenstarc4

> He really wants people to watch his videos and comment and become
> subscribers, but doesn't know how to bring people to his channel.

Our experience in getting views on videos has a lot to do with content,
what you name it and what music you put in it. My daughter's most
popular video, which just mysteriously disappeared last week, had tons
of views and was favorited by a lot of people because of the content.
It was a Naruto video, which are pretty popular, and the title was
Naruto and Hinata, which is a very popular video search for Naruto
videos. Her music choice brought viewers too, and people liked her
video because of the content, just as much as for what music she chose
to put with it. There are tons of Naruto and Hinata videos, but hers
had cool music.

So, if he wants views, he needs to name it something interesting that
includes a common search theme, and put into the video description the
music title of whatever music he puts in his video, if any.

My daughter and I will check out his videos...
Good Luck!

MrsStranahan

Add more tags, too. On one of his videos his tags are 'peach' and
'mario' he could also add 'stick figures', 'unschooler' as tags or
whatever else he can think of that is relevant to the video. Another
thing to do is post videos in reply to other videos that have a lot of
views. This will drive traffic to his channel.

He could find other unschoolers by doing a search for 'unschoolers' on youtube.

Hope that helps,

Lauren

On Feb 11, 2008 11:52 AM, jenstarc4 <jenstarc4@...> wrote:
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> > He really wants people to watch his videos and comment and become
> > subscribers, but doesn't know how to bring people to his channel.
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> Our experience in getting views on videos has a lot to do with content,
> what you name it and what music you put in it. My daughter's most
> popular video, which just mysteriously disappeared last week, had tons
> of views and was favorited by a lot of people because of the content.
> It was a Naruto video, which are pretty popular, and the title was
> Naruto and Hinata, which is a very popular video search for Naruto
> videos. Her music choice brought viewers too, and people liked her
> video because of the content, just as much as for what music she chose
> to put with it. There are tons of Naruto and Hinata videos, but hers
> had cool music.
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> So, if he wants views, he needs to name it something interesting that
> includes a common search theme, and put into the video description the
> music title of whatever music he puts in his video, if any.
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> My daughter and I will check out his videos...
> Good Luck!
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