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Title: Youtube promotion
Post by: Simon Spiers on March 27, 2018, 06:10:42 pm
Is there anywhere I can promote my channel on the EEV blob forum without being shot down?
Title: Re: Youtube promotion
Post by: retiredcaps on March 27, 2018, 06:13:26 pm
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/other-blog-specific/ (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/other-blog-specific/)
Title: Re: Youtube promotion
Post by: IdahoMan on March 27, 2018, 06:45:30 pm
I'd recommend avoiding YouTube. They are going downhill, adopting censorship and being idiotic.

There may be other video hosting sites that are less hostile towards knowledge.
Title: Re: Youtube promotion
Post by: ataradov on March 27, 2018, 09:59:29 pm
Quote from: IdahoMan on March 27, 2018, 06:45:30 pm
There may be other video hosting sites that are less hostile towards knowledge.
Yes, may be. But just like you, nobody knows about them. What's the point?
Title: Re: Youtube promotion
Post by: Simon Spiers on March 28, 2018, 07:18:58 am
I have been using Youtube for some time. What is the problem I should look for?
Title: Re: Youtube promotion
Post by: EEVblog on March 28, 2018, 07:47:02 am
Quote from: IdahoMan on March 27, 2018, 06:45:30 pm
I'd recommend avoiding YouTube. They are going downhill, adopting censorship and being idiotic.
There may be other video hosting sites that are less hostile towards knowledge.

That is very bad advice IMO.
Youtube is still the only game in town, by many orders of magnitude.
Title: Re: Youtube promotion
Post by: EEVblog on March 28, 2018, 07:51:00 am
Quote from: Simon Spiers on March 28, 2018, 07:18:58 am
I have been using Youtube for some time. What is the problem I should look for?

For a beginning Youtuber, likely nothing at all.
It's a complex range of issues from automatic demonetisation bots to left wing vs right wing politics and censorship of "free speech".
There are a few high profiles cases of issues and some channels being incorrectly shut down, meanwhile hundreds of thousands of other channels have no major issue at all.
Just go make your content and upload.
Title: Re: Youtube promotion
Post by: Brumby on March 28, 2018, 09:27:21 am
Quote from: Simon Spiers on March 28, 2018, 07:18:58 am
I have been using Youtube for some time. What is the problem I should look for?
Don't get caught up in producing videos to satisfy a timetable or any other production metrics.

Let your interests drive your videos and enjoy what you do.  If you don't, then your efforts will become a chore and your videos will show it.