Munchito696
I Love YTtalk
I originally came to Yttalk to do what you said, just leave some videos and see if people watched. By the time I earned cash to post videos, I liked the forum and now I'm always on it. I told my buddy to visit here because he was asking for tips on promoting, SEO, etc. He only has 2 videos so far, but he has seen what I've done and is interested in making a good channel.There are sites like that but the vast majority wont work, the best place to promote your content is where your target audience currently is online, if that's gaming then gaming communities, gaming blogs and so on. Most sites which offer views will have other video makers promoting their videos there and the vast majority are only interested in promoting their own videos which would be the same reason you would be there, it just doesn't work unfortunately. It is the equivalent of signing up here, plonking your video down and leaving, no one will care to watch or very few would, you need to network naturally on sites where these people are if you are wanting to go down the free route
As I mentioned before, try places that are related to your niche and if you cant freely advertise on them due to restrictions such as forum terms, comment terms for blogs etc contact the sites and come up with an advertising deal with them, not many YouTubers are doing that and I dont think it will be long before many of them go down that route.
And again as you said, find some place relevant to what your videos are about... The places I get a lot of views I don't only post my videos, I participate, post pics, post other videos I find, etc. People normally hate when people just pop in and self promote. Somehow I have gotten a lot of views on Facepunch when most people get destroyed there. I think it's because I post in a lot of other people's threads and also post stuff that's not only mine.
On a side note, I mentioned this earlier, but viralviralvideos.com accepted one of my videos today and it has received about 1100 views just today (they embed your Youtube video). Before that it had about 1400 since December 30th. The thing is, it's hard to get them to approve stuff. I've sent in plenty of stuff probably like a year ago without ever being approved, so not just any video will make it. The only reason I tried it again is because I came across a video that mentioned that as its source and it was on a pretty well known site, so I just gave it a shot. Just look at what kind of stuff they accept and try it, so far I've got one approved. I'm not sure how much exposure it will result in, but so far I can't complain.
