What's the best strategy for making a home-made music video popular on YouTube?

To go viral, the video needs to be share-worthy and to reach influencers with massive audiences. This video is not. I don't like it. The video's popularity eventually explodes when an influencer shares it to her massive audience. By the time the media picks it up, they are reporting on the video's success and not the video itself. A viral video is something that you are compelled to share with your friends.

The only marketing strategy that works to make videos viral is to make them worth watching. As Leonid said, this is really not a good video.

There are over 2.5 million videos being uploaded by users on YouTube every day and 90% of them get less than 1,000 views. Even if you have a video on YouTube, you would have fewer views until and unless you put some marketing efforts on it. Here are some points on how to market your YouTube videos effectively? # Specify your target audiences & use Google’s Keyword tool: First thing decide to whom you want to show the video, why they will be interested to watch your video? Is it something funny or has some good contents? Suppose you have a Music concert video and you want to promote it on YouTube. Here your target groups may be young people who have interest on music. You may reach out to them by Google’s adword. Do some keywords research on Google’s adword tool & then target the right keywords that are relevant to you content. # Improve your Call to Action: Put the url of your website at the beginning of the video description on YouTube. To add your website link, just click on the “Edit Video” option at the top of your page in your Account. If you put the URL, people can go directly to your website and can know details about you or your company. Don’t forget to add it inside the video. # Add Annotations on your video. Annotation is a presentational markup attached to text or image or any data. It will help to get people to subscribe, like or watch the nest video on the playlist. To add annotations, go to your YouTube account, click on “Edit Annotations” # Add transcription Don’t forget to add transcription inside the video. It will help to people who are deaf or hearing impaired & also useful for everyone, because most of people watch subtitles inside the video who are not comfortable with the language. All you need to create a simple text file with all the words of the video, then go to “Edit Captions” option in your account and upload there the text file. # Put the Social Media icons At the end of the video, put the Facebook follow & twitter icons with proper links so that users can go to your Facebook/Twitter page and they can like or share the post over there which will help you to make it go viral. Once all these things are done, promote your video by sharing the link among your friends and social media. Also do shoot some emails to your friends and make it viral. BTW, i am co-founder of Vidoofy, a viral marketing platform for YouTube videos. Currently we are in private beta. You can still signup with us. http://www.vidoofy.com