“Theater People: We need you!”
So said Virginia Heffernan, digital media critic of the New York Times when reviewing my live streamed online video series “35″. It was a rough night- we had sound problems, we had camera problems- in fact we shot all 10 episodes on a budget of less than $6000- and yet Virginia Heffernan responded to what I thought was the most important element of my production of “35″. The internet is screaming out for compelling, daring, artistic content. Content that is not simply underdone TV, but that is created by people who are passionate about story telling and communicating. People who have spent their lives in black boxes turning nothing – into magic. Read Post
Last month Youtube introduced automatic captions, so all that unsearchable audio…it is now searchable text! By adding captions to your video you are (theoretically) improving both the accessibility of your video to the hearing impaired, and the searchability of your video. ( I say theoretically, because marvelous as the captions are… they are extremely inaccurate.)
Not only have Youtube captions increased my client’s video views as much as 74%, they have dramatically increased traffic to their branded video site as well.
So, how do you use Youtube video captions to increase your site’s SEO? My solution is perhaps a little inelegant- but definitivley effective and requires nothing more than a video uploaded to Youtube (and embedded on your site) and Excel.
Step one: Edit and Upload
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Well not the live part… that feels like second nature…
In a post some weeks ago I wrote about the hardest thing I’ve had to overcome and that thing of course was my fear… lotsa varieties that manifest themselves in oh… quitting, failure, overeating, procrastinating… you know… but they all boil down to one thing… fear that who I am is not enough.
Well.. here I go… tellin the world that I who I am is enough.. that I am passionate and powerful and I believe in me….
(I know…that sounds so dopey and self-helpey… but its true..if you have a better way to say it please submit!!!! I would be ever grateful![youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJPPMv_YZVk]
A fantastic DP just signed on…we will be shooting virals in a few weeks…..Everything is falling into place…. Here I go!!!
