sld72382
08-31-2008, 06:55 PM
Now mind you, none of my videos would win any awards. I concentrate on making videos for the red-blooded male: babes, cars and racing. Now basically my videos are either racing/car clips or photo/video slideshows of beautiful women set to some of the greatest names in classic rock.
It all started last June 2007, when I posted clips of German tractor pulling. It's very similar to US pulling except the announcing is funny as hell (especially if you don't understand german).
Since then I have 77 videos up on my page (would be 78 but youtube pulled one).
But here is what I found out about posting videos on youtube:
1. Effort does not equal page views.
Many of my babe videos have low view counts. I guess people don't like to look at gorgeous english babes. It sucks, because it takes time to create these videos and once they're up they get less than 200 views after a month, which the exception of a few. Yet the highest views are my race car "They Walked Away" crash compilations. Go figure.
2. Don't bash people who give you low ratings.
In the video that was pulled, a number of people gave it 1-star and 2-star ratings. I edited my description to say "I bet those people think that women like Paris Hilton are hot. Sorry, I prefer women with curves and boobs."
A day later, the video was pulled for "inappropriate content" when it wasn't even flagged before. I also fired back on another video, thankfully it didn't get pulled. That or those people don't like The Darkness.
3. The most commented on video is usually about a depressing subject...
In motorsports there is always a risk of death. There were racing fatality tribute videos showing the dark side of racing but they were almost always set to heavy metal music. To counter this, I created one of my own and tried to make it has tasteful as possible considering the subject. Needless to say, it has been my most commented on video (most people actually like it).
4. Putting a video on a different host can yield different results.
On youtube, one of my babe videos got a 1-star rating (had to log in under a different account and give it a 5 to at least bring it up to something decent) and is only up to 400 or so views. On Veoh, the same video is up to nearly 5,000 and got an average rating of 4. Which means people on Veoh have good taste.
Here's a sample of my work:
Here's the tractor pulling clip vid that really started it all: Tractor pulling clips. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnPOgh7kfHY)
Here is the first babe video I made: Four of my favorite brunettes. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHDm0sYil2o) Later ones featured either 2 or 3 songs and eventually added video clips to the mix, and later still I added fader effects.
Here was my first crash comp: Drag racing crash comp. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ZMa7-nKuk) Later ones grew in length as added other racing series as well.
Here is the non-surviving crash video: Click here. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxzq2ApjLcE) :cry: This was the toughest video I ever made, and unfortunately forgot to proofread before publishing it, however most people realize that this isn't a spelling bee.
It all started last June 2007, when I posted clips of German tractor pulling. It's very similar to US pulling except the announcing is funny as hell (especially if you don't understand german).
Since then I have 77 videos up on my page (would be 78 but youtube pulled one).
But here is what I found out about posting videos on youtube:
1. Effort does not equal page views.
Many of my babe videos have low view counts. I guess people don't like to look at gorgeous english babes. It sucks, because it takes time to create these videos and once they're up they get less than 200 views after a month, which the exception of a few. Yet the highest views are my race car "They Walked Away" crash compilations. Go figure.
2. Don't bash people who give you low ratings.
In the video that was pulled, a number of people gave it 1-star and 2-star ratings. I edited my description to say "I bet those people think that women like Paris Hilton are hot. Sorry, I prefer women with curves and boobs."
A day later, the video was pulled for "inappropriate content" when it wasn't even flagged before. I also fired back on another video, thankfully it didn't get pulled. That or those people don't like The Darkness.
3. The most commented on video is usually about a depressing subject...
In motorsports there is always a risk of death. There were racing fatality tribute videos showing the dark side of racing but they were almost always set to heavy metal music. To counter this, I created one of my own and tried to make it has tasteful as possible considering the subject. Needless to say, it has been my most commented on video (most people actually like it).
4. Putting a video on a different host can yield different results.
On youtube, one of my babe videos got a 1-star rating (had to log in under a different account and give it a 5 to at least bring it up to something decent) and is only up to 400 or so views. On Veoh, the same video is up to nearly 5,000 and got an average rating of 4. Which means people on Veoh have good taste.
Here's a sample of my work:
Here's the tractor pulling clip vid that really started it all: Tractor pulling clips. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnPOgh7kfHY)
Here is the first babe video I made: Four of my favorite brunettes. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHDm0sYil2o) Later ones featured either 2 or 3 songs and eventually added video clips to the mix, and later still I added fader effects.
Here was my first crash comp: Drag racing crash comp. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ZMa7-nKuk) Later ones grew in length as added other racing series as well.
Here is the non-surviving crash video: Click here. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxzq2ApjLcE) :cry: This was the toughest video I ever made, and unfortunately forgot to proofread before publishing it, however most people realize that this isn't a spelling bee.