Thoughts on promoting via the comment section?

Shawn Parrotte

Shawn Parrotte

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I bet this has been rehashed a few times, but I've just started promoting my guitar lessons by commenting about them on the music and lyric videos. My material is very relevant to the video I'm commenting on and I have even received a couple "thank you!" messages from doing so. But, I got my first jab today for doing it... so did a bit of digging and found this from the Creator Blog:

"Helping you connect with your fans is extremely important for you and for us. This includes replacing little-used features with better ones. Currently video responses have a click-through rate of .0004% -- in other words, only 4 out of every 1 million users who sees a video response clicks on it. So, on September 12 we’re going to retire this little-used feature as we work to develop more effective fan engagement tools for creators. The team is focused on enabling you to share video links in comments. Doing this in comments will let creators and viewers add more context to a video, and more context should drive more engagement."

This makes me think YouTube is encouraging video and channel promotion in the comments section, right? I just want some other opinions before I make it a regular strategy of mine.
 
To be honest, when I see those comments on popular YouTuber's videos I just see people trying to mooch off their success and I very rarely click on them.

On music videos, I'm more inclined to because as a musician I like finding new and under-rated singers and guitarists.
 
I post joke comments that tie into self promotion - i.e. if the person's video is about carving a pumpkin, I'd say something like "I carved 'Check out my MegaBoringGuy channel' into my face and will light it on fire for all the trick or treaters tonight. I think my burning flesh and screams will really drive video engagement".

Idiots that paste s**t like "Shane was my inspiration, check out my vids" is annoying.
 
MegaBoringGuy said:
I post joke comments that tie into self promotion - i.e. if the person's video is about carving a pumpkin, I'd say something like "I carved 'Check out my MegaBoringGuy channel' into my face and will light it on fire for all the trick or treaters tonight. I think my burning flesh and screams will really drive video engagement".

Idiots that paste s**t like "Shane was my inspiration, check out my vids" is annoying.
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YOUR PUMPKIN CARVING FLESH BURNING VIDEO WAS MY INSPIRATION CHECK OUT MY CHANNEL
 
Shawn Parrotte said:
This makes me think YouTube is encouraging video and channel promotion in the comments section, right? I just want some other opinions before I make it a regular strategy of mine.
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On your own videos yes, not on other peoples lol I consider people who do that to be leeches. But if the YouTuber's videos you were posting on was okay with it, then you may as well take advantage of it. In your particular case though you have to keep in mind; you were promoting a video that teaches someone how to play the music in that particular video which I'm assuming the user themselves doesn't do. This is probably why you received good reception from the post. It's kind of like saying "if anyone wants to learn this song I can teach you" so it's more a helpful thing than leeching there.
If you were on a users channel who posts the same type of videos as you (guitar lessons), then you're leeching way more than you should be. That's like saying, "I can also teach you this song, don't bother with this persons video".
 
Yeah when I see people commenting on famous videos to ask to be seen, I usually just ignore them. So...idk where Youtube is going with this...
 
Believe it or not I usually LIKE when people promote themselves, it helps me find out about unknown underrated creators which a lot of them are way better than the mainstream youtubers, I just kind of hate when the advertisements are worded like "hi, I'm a 17 year old rapper I bet 99% of people won't even read this but...." Stuff like that is just annoying and makes me not want to watch their videos.
 
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