YouTube Takeover - How You Can Grow Your YouTube Channel Into A Regular Income

Introduction – The Power of YouTube

Let’s face it. Everyone living in the world of technology has heard of YouTube. YouTube needs no introduction. It is an amazing video sharing platform that Google acquired for 1.6 billion dollars. Why did they pay so much for a video-sharing site that wasn’t even that popular? It was because they saw the potential. Google knew that YouTube would become the most popular place for videos and potentially the second largest search engine in the world. Therefore, they bought it. They turned the competition into their greatest asset and now YouTube and Google are the most used search engines in the world.

Even though Google recognized the value of YouTube, it is still one of the most underrated platforms for reaching a massive audience. Businesses vastly underestimate the potential that YouTube has to bring more fans and followers. This is a shocking fact because YouTube has become increasingly popular. In fact, many people don’t realize exactly how massive YouTube really is.

YouTube has billions of users and roughly half of the people online have signed up for an account. Since YouTube and Google are cohesive, everyone with a Gmail account also has a YouTube account. Every single day, roughly five billion videos are watched on YouTube totaling millions of hours of content. In a month, over 3.5 billion hours of content is watched on YouTube.

Every minute roughly 300 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube. EVERY MINUTE!!!! Imagine how many are uploaded in a month! Let’s do some math. 300 hours of video is uploaded every minute. There are 1,440 minutes in a day. That means that each day 432,000 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube. In a month, that number is almost 13 million hours of content!

Through mobile alone, that means people streaming videos only on their phones, YouTube manages to reach more people between the ages of 18 and 49 than any cable TV network in the United States. In addition, 8 out of 10 people in that same age group watch videos on YouTube at least once each day.

Clearly, YouTube is something you cannot ignore. Google was right. YouTube had the potential to become the second largest search engine in the world and now it is. This is huge because it means that you can get as much traffic from YouTube as you can from Google. However, because YouTube is all about videos, the traffic you receive is going to be highly targeted and they will be significantly more likely to convert into customers.

Videos give you the option to really engage your viewers in a much more powerful way than regular written text. Videos are great for marketing because it quickly captures the attention of the viewer. In addition, videos can make a point several times faster than an article. You can literally show people what you are talking about. You can make them feel and inspire them to think and act. Answer these questions to help illustrate this point.

Have you ever been talking with someone but not really listening because you were too busy staring at the screen behind him or her?

How about staying up late watching something on TV that you didn’t really like?

Has a commercial ever made you laugh or cry?

Chances are that you have said, yes to every one of these questions. These are all great examples of the level of impact that video has compared to written content. After all, when was the last time you were reading an article from afar while talking to your friend? Probably never.

YouTube provides this level of captivity and gives you access to the billions of people that are engaged in watching the content. You literally have a captive audience. You have an audience that is searching for one purpose, and that is to watch videos.

Another aspect that is so hugely important for you is the fact that YouTube comes with built-in social media sharing. This means that people can watch your video and instantly like, subscribe, and share it to all of their friends!

Therefore, forget paying the piper to create TV commercials on a network that can’t even reach the majority of people. Instead, create videos to post on your own channel that people can search for, watch, and share with their friends all for FREE!

YouTube videos can have a lasting impact on your audience. People are naturally impressed with high-quality video content because it is something that average people cannot do themselves. Ultimately, anyone can make a website, add content to Facebook, and upload videos to YouTube. But not everybody can create stunning business and marketing videos that look professional, have high definition footage, great music, and excellent wording.

Therefore, the question becomes: Why aren’t more businesses using YouTube? Clearly, it is an amazing way to gain access to a huge audience that is actively searching for the very content you are going to create! Come on, if there were literally billions of people searching for your product in a certain area of the world are you telling me that you wouldn’t make an effort to put your product out there for them to find? For FREE!

If so, then your business is missing out. You need to take advantage of this free method of distribution, especially because many other businesses aren’t. That means you have the potential to get ahead of your competition and be found a lot faster.  You see the advantages. So why aren’t people using YouTube?

The main reason many businesses, perhaps yourself included, don’t use YouTube is because they simply don’t know enough about it. YouTube is so vast that people can’t comprehend what is going on. Take another look