β This made me chuckle ..β All those YouTube thumbnails you see with startled faces! Got to love this cartoon :) Credit Last Place Comics. β 20 second social media postβ For some reason people love seeing editing timelines. If you are editing a sales video, your next online course or a YouTube video, take a screenshot of the timeline as you edit and post it on Social Media to build anticipation and announce what you are creating. You may get more interaction than normal. The same goes for filming set ups, always take some stills of your camera/ lighting setup when you shoot your next video to share with your followers pre-launch. β Watch your headroom!β It's a basic error but take care how much headroom you leave in your headshots, especially if you are booked for a video podcast or TV interview. You want to match the composition of the interviewer .. unlike this fellow: β Try something differentβ This morning in my YouTube feed was a video from a channel I had no clue about. I do watch guitar tutorial channels but had never encountered Nicky V ( a musician from Nashville.) He has been getting about 1k views on his tutorials or covers but then BOOM a breakout video titled: How much do touring musicians get paid? Nashville As I type the video has reached 391k views! It's intriguing, feels like insider knowledge not easily available and people always love the topic of money. (Click to watch it - their pay is shocking!) So if you are doing the same old, same old content, what subject idea can you test that's different? Random but ... Did you get to see the Northern Lights? I have never seen them before in London, I took this shot was from my loft. The lights were so faint to the naked eye my neighbors didn't believe me, but the sensitivity of an iPhone on a long exposure let's you see things that your eyes can't! Speak soon, Jules βVideoHeroβ β β |
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π Viewsletter This edition is sponsored by InVideo Hey, I hope all is good. So I just got back from 2 weeks vacation in Japan, what an amazing country! Stay tuned as in the next 'Viewsletter' I will share some video learnings from my trip. In the meantime: Keep cutting I love how Big AL keeps his talking head moving. We all probably make videos like this sometimes, heavy on a talking head, not much to show in terms of b-roll. But there is no need to just sit there like a lemon. This YouTuber...
π Viewsletter This Viewsletter edition is sponsored by Oh so real Create lifelike avatar videos in minutes that can even hold products! π One time launch deal Hey, I hope all is good. Two quick bits of Social Video News. All facebook videos will be reels! From Meta: "Every day, people use Facebook to share content that helps them connect with friends, capture memories and showcase their interests. Now, weβre making it easier to share videos on Facebook by simplifying how you create and post...
π Viewsletter Afternoon! Just one quick tip today. But a valuable one. If you are launching a product and driving valuable traffic to a sales page (or have an evergreen product that sells) always have your Sales Video and other sales page videos uploaded to a second video host! Case in point ... yesterday I mailed a recommendation for Audgram and immediately got some emails back from you that NONE of the videos were available to view! That is a surefire way NOT to get signups and lose your...