For some reason when people create a video, their first reaction is to give it away for free on YouTube simply because that site has so much traffic that you can get a decent number of clicks back to any given URL.
Should you be posting your webinar or live training recordings onto YouTube and what should you watch out for?
You can post 10-minute long clips to YouTube. You do have to limit of only having videos that are 10 minutes or less and actually, studies have shown that the most popular videos are only 3 to 4 minutes long. For that reason, your webinars are not that created to fit for putting onto YouTube because if you take a 3- to 4-minute clip of a webinar, people aren't going to really see what you're talking about.
Webinars and YouTube videos really don't go that well together. Webinars are hour long training sessions and just taking for example a clip of your favorite TV show and putting it on YouTube isn't going to make a whole lot of sense without watching the whole TV show; same idea with a movie or other long video clip.
But if you have a 3- to 4-minute clip that will stand out on its own and that does happen every now and then, be very careful about sharing PowerPoints. Let's say I run a webinar on how to write articles extremely quickly and I have one part of the webinar where I explain the step by step in a PowerPoint format and another portion where I show myself writing the article. If it only took me 4 minutes to write the article and that clips stood on its own, that would be a clip that would be good for YouTube.
On the other hand, the PowerPoint segment would not be good on YouTube simply because videos that are PowerPoint based, if they go onto YouTube, they're intended be removed very quickly and the entire account gets banned because many video spammers can easily crank out tons of PowerPoint videos and flood YouTube with hundreds of videos in a single day; whereas the real videos on YouTube that have real content are live action videos of people doing things or screen capture videos of people showing how-to information. So if you can get a 4- to 5-minute how-to clip which is a demonstration and not a PowerPoint, the webinar clips will be useful for you on YouTube. But keep in mind that the short videos are hard to get on the point in just a few minutes and it's hard to have a call to action at the end to get people to go to the URL you want. It might be easier for you to create new 3- to 4- minute videos from scratch, whether those are Camtasia videos or live action videos, and put those on YouTube. That way the content is designed for YouTube.
That's why adding webinar recording for YouTube is both good and bad. They have the 10-minute limit; they have the ban on PowerPoints; and it's hard to get the big picture, hard to get the point, hard to get the call to action from small clips of webinars.
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