Below is live coverage of the Up Close With YouTube from SMX West 2009 conference.
This coverage is provided by both Barry Schwartz, the editor of the Search Engine Roundtable.
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| Up Close With YouTube | (02/10/2009)
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4:28 | Starting any minute now
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4:33 | Working out some technical stuff now, I think... slides or something... running a few minutes late and this session is a short one (just an hour)
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4:34 | Chris Sherman introduces the panel...
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4:34 | This is a new style for the panel, three speakers and a youtube rep
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4:34 | Matt Liu is up first, he is the product manager at YouTube, who works on the ad platform
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4:35 | YouTube is largest video site
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4:36 | They are the second largest search engine, behind Google
4th largest web property
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4:36 | hundreds of millions of videos viewed daily
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4:37 | Basic ways to improve your rankings in youtube
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4:37 | good descriptive titles
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4:37 | provide content that is descriptive and accurate and unique, use complete sentences, in your description...
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4:37 | include tags and avoid stuffing your tags
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4:38 | get the community to be involved in your video
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4:38 | share your video with members, annotate, embed your videos on web sites, be social and share
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4:39 | Allow other users to embed your video and embed your own videos on your own properties
Google looks at those embeds, he said.
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4:41 | Stats like sources, demographics, etc. really good data.
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4:41 | Case Study on Weezer
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4:41 | They saw most viewers were male
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4:42 | So they bought ads to target other users on third party sites
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4:43 | OfficeMax used these youtube ads and they found saw their videos were listed at top of Google for organic traffic
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4:44 | Zagg used youtube ads and saw it worked well
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4:44 | Matt Liu from Google is now done, next up...
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4:44 | JC Longbottom from Performics
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4:46 | He then shows clips on YouTube of Budd and Monster.com commercials from Super Bowl
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4:47 | but one ad stood out, Pepsi PepSuber the "MacGruber" ad
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4:49 | That is the video he showed
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4:50 | These videos showed up first, it paid its way to the top of Google and YouTube
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4:52 | Best part, you can watch the commercial on the branded page, they had a YouTube channel, they had an interactive competiton where others can upload videos and then people would vote on them
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4:53 | They gave tons of ways to embed the videos and tons of links there also.
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4:54 | Pepsi did great but there was one ad they might not have done 100% right
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4:55 | The free breakfast for Denny's was very popular
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4:55 | But they didn't do the "After" the fact part that well
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4:56 | Next up is Drew Hubbard
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4:57 | End of the day, we want to show up in Google.com, the universal search results
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4:58 | There are two different opps to put a link in your YouTube profile:
(1) Right under your profile picture
(2) Your Web site URL
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4:58 | Always include keyword rich descriptions, titles and tags
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4:59 | Channel title is important, put a keyword in there
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5:00 | These links in your channel, are nofollowed but he said "google is looking at these" - yes he said that
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5:00 | Allow people to interact with your videos
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5:01 | He said, include the word "video" in your title
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5:02 | YouTube allows you to link to videos within videos, so link your part 1 to part 2
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5:03 | He made two videos, and he put a still image of famous actors in the middle of one video and that video has views than the other
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5:04 | YouTube's meta data is fairly simple
title = meta title tag
description = meta description tag
tags = meta keywords tag
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5:05 | What does Google see of a video, he pulled the text only cache of this page (I personally do not see a cache link for this video)
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5:05 | Use captions and subtitles, makes sense that Google might use this down the road
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5:05 | 100% put watermarks on your videos
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5:06 | YouTube has Google Maps integration and you can show up in Google Local results for it.
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5:07 | Jonathan Mendez is now up
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5:07 | He is addicted to YouTube
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5:08 | He also said, YouTube is #2 search engine, behind Google and just ahead of Yahoo
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5:08 | His nephew first searches YouTube, not even Google -- cute 
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5:09 | This is big, Obama and whitehouse has a channel
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5:10 | He shows off the YouTube Live event, first streaming event YouTube held, it was back in November
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5:10 | Live Stream peak was 700,000 views
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5:10 | 24 hours, 1.5 million views
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5:10 | 48 hours, 4 million views
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5:10 | 9 days, 11 million views
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5:10 | 2 months, 17 million views
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5:11 | Monday night football has 11.8 million viewers on average for 2008... so this is big
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5:11 | YouTube put bid in for football broadcast in 2015
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5:11 | So Youtube is incredible
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5:12 | The data is great for the marketer, he shows insights again
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5:12 | Unbelievable data, including the hotspots
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5:13 | Videos that are popular are generally humerous
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5:13 | He mentions Blendtech :)
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5:14 | Here is a sample video
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5:15 | His client hired Gary Busey to talk about their product
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5:15 | Here is an example video from this campaign
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5:17 | The value of the web is more about distribution of the content, not just the content itself
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5:17 | He built an app to watch the video in many places
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5:17 | He got some good press about it
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5:18 | He drove traffic it to it intially via search ads
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5:19 | The results were great and the data was awesome
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5:19 | Increased brand awareness by 39%
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5:19 | 1 million views overall
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5:19 | 400k views on youtube
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5:20 | That is all folks, good job!
I'll skip the Q&A, only a few minutes left anyway
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