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YouTube Question Advantages and disadvantages of Premiering a YT Video

IanDominicTV

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I listed the advantages and disadvantages when Premiering a YouTube Video. If you know another advantage or disadvantage of premiering a video on YouTube, let me know.

ADVANTAGES:
  • You can chat with your fans in real-time
  • Higher audience retention
  • More views!
DISADVANTAGES:
  • It does not start at the exact time. After the 2 minute countdown, it would be like 4:02pm for the upload to be premiered.
  • If you have no one to watch the premiere, it's useless, unless you have good SEO and good promotion.
 
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It seems to be more an experimentation in interactivity. I don't think (outside of superchat donations in chat) it really benifits that greatly, and more often than not people don't like having to wait for x minutes before the video premieres. During the premiere you have no idea how long the video is, it could be 4 minutes, it could be 40 minutes.and many have said their premieres have performed poorly long term (mine did)

I've tried it and I prefer the traditional way of publishing content.
 

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I have not tried it, but have a video in the pipe I don't have a scheduling time for so I will put it on an odd time when most of my subscribers are online and then try to hype it and see if it does better than similar videos.
 

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I live 8,000 miles from most of my viewers so scheduling a good time might be difficult (14 hour time difference). I have been thinking about trying a premiere, as a test. It should be easier on me than a live vid. And if no one tunes in... the vid is still published for later. I need to pick one that should be popular to begin with, like a house construction vid - I do not like them much, but the viewers eat em up!

I am not sure what would be popular with my viewers. I just know my tastes. Since the invention of DVR I gave up on scheduled TV, now I stream everything. And I am not bothering to go to anyone's premiere, unless I just happen to be online at the time. Maybe that is just me?

The idea of chatting live sounds good, and the possibility of some superchat ain't bad either.
 

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I listed the advantages and disadvantages when Premiering a YouTube Video. If you know another advantage or disadvantage of premiering a video on YouTube, let me know.

ADVANTAGES:
  • You can chat with your fans in real-time
  • Higher audience retention
  • More views!
DISADVANTAGES:
  • It does not start at the exact time. After the 2 minute countdown, it would be like 4:02pm for the upload to be premiered.
  • If you have no one to watch the premiere, it's useless, unless you have good SEO and good promotion.

IF they have a huge audience presence at the start they can REALLY boost a videos performance, but sadly the opposite is true too. They can hinder how a video does. They also are built on the same system as live streams, so sadly they don't do as well initially to subscribers since they can choose to set a reminder. They're pretty great, but have some drawbacks. I also rule on if EVERY video is a premiere nothing is.