Increase your business with YouTube, the online video site and now the second largest search engine. Discover the power of video for your organization, and how to use video as a marketing tool to reach and serve more people.
Find out what types of video work best on YouTube, how other business organizations are using YouTube, how to create your own YouTube channel, and the techniques of adding captions, annotations and other extra features.
YouTube can enhance your current marketing and communication strategy. After attending this course you will take back proven strategies and techniques for making YouTube work successfully for your organization.
YouTube, as the second largest search engine can no longer be ignored
by businesses and organizations. YouTube reaches a broad age and
gender demographic and is the largest video search/discovery
destination with over 35 hours of video being uploaded every minute.
YouTube is now accessible from nearly every top mobile device as well
as from your TV.
How can your videos rise above the music mashups and cat antics?
Learn how to get your YouTube video on the first page of Google
Search. Just like Facebook, YouTube is a social network that needs to
be set-up, optimized, and used regularly to be effective. Your
patters of behavior on YouTube may be working against you. Learn how
YouTube can compliment your current marketing and social media
strategy and how to maximize your YouTube Channel to get the greatest
return.
This course is offered in partnership with Learning Education Resource Network - UGotClass. For more information see http://yougotclass.org/index.cfm/VCC
Prerequisites
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What you will learn
- Designing Marketing Goals for YouTube that Maximize the Platform
Learn what types of video work best on YouTube
Adapt your marketing plan to include video and goals for the
YouTube platform
Discuss YouTube case studies from your industry and evaluate
what’s working and what’s not
Create a content plan for videos that will work for your business
or organization and won’t get you banned from YouTube
Understand how to use YouTube search features and other elements
from a consumer perspective - Building and Optimizing Your YouTube Channel
Learn the various elements of a YouTube Channel and how each feature works
Create your own YouTube Channel and optimize each feature
Discuss channel design and settings that fit with your video marketing goals
Discover how to embed YouTube videos on your website that maximize views - Driving Traffic: Maximizing the Social Network of YouTube
Learn about the power of YouTube as a social network
Discover why it is important to have subscribers and how to
communicate with them internally within YouTube
Understand the analytics of YouTube: Views, Ratings, Comments, Favorites
Learning to Read YouTube Insight & Analyzing the Data - Creating and Distributing Video on YouTube
Learn how to upload video, the types of cameras, formats, and
video resolution that work best on YouTube, and tools that streamline
the process
Understand the essential element in a video on YouTube such as
graphics, title, tags, description, etc. and how to optimize them for
search
Discover how to get your videos to appear in related searches and
other secrets of the YouTube Algorithm
Explore the extra features in YouTube such as editing, private
sharing, captions, annotating, audio swap, etc.
How to register
This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.
Course schedules
Select your program to see the available course schedules.
Contact us
If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.
† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.