Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Sex Sells (or How to Get Someone to Subscribe to Your YouTube Channel)

This particular YouTube video has a couple of things going for it which might make more people subscribe to the creator’s video channel or view more of their videos:

• The first part of the video is basically a still telling viewers to click the Subscribe button to “see Tania naked.” To not see her naked, you are told you also need to click the Subscribe button...
• The customizable channel banner graphic itself has an arrow pointing to the Subscribe button. The graphic is animated, too – I might be wrong, but it seems this is a hack as they’ve uploaded an animated GIF but using a JPG extension (letting the browser figure out it’s indeed a GIF).
• The video creators are using YouTube’s new video annotations feature to create a “Click HERE” link (pointing to another video of them)... complete with an ASCII art nude!

Furthermore, perhaps to popularize the video, it is added as a “video response” to seemingly unrelated other videos... like a Diablo 3 teaser video they posted.

[Thanks P.R.G.!]

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