Posts Tagged ‘social media’
When To Social Network
Written by jonathan on November 18, 2008 – 12:51 pm -If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
If you want your content to get seen by as many people as possible, you need to plan ahead and make sure that when you release it, it is seen by as many eyeballs as possible.
In the old days of PR, the general rule was to release a Press Release on a Wednesday or Thursday. The logic behind this was that on Mondays, people were too busy catching up from the weekend and whatnot to notice a press release. Same goes with Tuesdays. Friday is also a bad day to release one because no one will notice on a Friday because all they will care about is getting off for the weekend. This leaves Wednesday and Thursday; mid-week is when people take the time to notice things or look for something to take up their time.
These old rules pretty much still apply to the Web 2.0 and social media worlds.
I’ve submitted blog articles to various social media sites on every day of the week, at different times and have had different results. I quickly learned that trying to push a blog post on Digg or Reddit at 9:00PM at night will mean that your content will get no where. Things happen quickly in social media and you need to put your stuff out at the right time to ensure maximum penetration.
So, what time of the day is best to have a social media campaign? After lots of experience in this, I think the best time of day to submit things to social media is mid-morning on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.
Why?
You catch the people who have slept in and are just getting online. You catch the people getting mid-morning blues at work and want an outlet. You catch people going on their lunch (and coming back who don’t want to work at first). Then you also catch the mid-afternoon malaise. There are die-hards that will spend hours when they get home from work playing around on the net, but a lot of people go home and spend time with families or loved ones and don’t have the time to do that. You want to catch them when they’re watching and that’s during the day.
Despite the fact that the internet is a 24 hour business environment, most business and content consumption occurrs during regular business hours. That is something that won’t really change.
It’s also been my experience with Webinar Central, that it’s best to have new Webinars posted during regular business hours because that’s when my target audience is watching their Twitter and RSS Feeds. So, I when I set new webinars to post, I have them automatically come out gradually so that I have a steady stream of traffic throughout the day.
I wrote this article at 11:00 at night. I set it to post in the morning. Hope you all find it helpful.
What do you guys think? When’s the best time to submit your stuff to Social Media sites?
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Top 20 Most Viewed Youtube Videos of All Time
Written by jonathan on October 14, 2008 – 12:08 am -I was never really into YouTube much until fairly recently. So, I’m rather late to the YouTube bandwagon. I’ve found some incredible stuff and wanted to share the most popular YouTube Videos of All Time in descending order.
One trend I’ve noticed is that music videos are the most popular videos by far. Sadly, some of them cannot be embedded on webpages, so you’ll have to click the direct links to YouTube. There are a few funny video that one can say have simply become YouTube phenomena.
The results alone show how unpredictable a YouTube success can be. I doubt someone thought a video of their baby laughing would be one of the most popular videos on the internet.
So without further ado, the most popular YouTube videos ever.
20. Guitar
Views - 50,164,928
Description - Pachelbel’s Canon played on a Guitar. Pretty Impressive.
19. Madonna W/ Justin Timberlake
Views - 50,488,589
Description - New Madonna video featureing Justin Timberlake.
18. Crank Dat Soulja Boy with Spongebob
Views - 51,342,088
Description - A parody of Spongebob Squarepants to “Crank Dat Soulja Boy.”
17. Potter Puppet Pals in “The Mysterious Ticking Noise”
Views - 52,648,451
Description - Hilarious Harry Potter parody with hand puppets to a cool song.
16. Timbaland - The Way I Are OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
Views - 54,139,787
Description - Latest video from the artist Timbaland
15. My Chemical Romance - Teenagers
Views - 55,110,725
Description - Music Video from My Chemical Romance.
14. Charlie bit my finger - again !
Views - 55,435,723
Description - Cute babies creating fun entertainment. “Charlie bit my finger!”
13. Akon - “Don’t Matter”
Views - 57, 354,419
Description - Akon Music Video. Pretty cool.
12. Chris Brown;Chris Brown featuring T-Pain - Kiss Kiss
Views - 57,671,532
Description - Chris Brown Music Video
11. XXX
Views - 58,819,754
Description - Some strange Asian Video - not quite sure what it is.
10. Hahaha
Views - 63,446,502
Description - One really happy baby that won’t stop laughing. Who’s having more fun, the baby or the dad?
9. Alicia Keys - No One
Views - 66,412,855
Description - Video from Alicia Keys - No One.
8. Timbaland - Apologize (feat. One Republic)
Views - 68,217,723
Description - Another video from Timbaland.
7. Jeff Dunham - Achmed the Dead Terrorist
Views - 68,461,450
Description - Funny ventriloquist with a terrorist puppet.
6. Rihanna - Don’t Stop The Music
Views - 70,955,837
Description - A music video from Rihanna
5. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
Views - 71,101,721
Description - Leona Lewis Music Video
4. Chris Brown - With you
Views - 71,787,760
Description - Music Video from Chris Brown
3. Lo que tú Quieras Oír
Views - 76,858,773
Description - Interesting spanish language short movie.
2. Evolution of Dance
Views - 101,474,275
Description - White guy trying to dance. Hilarious!
1. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
Views - 104,685,527
Description - A video from Avril Lavigne. This is the number one video by more than 3 million Views. Thankfully Avril Lavigne beats a white guy dancing.
Hope you enjoyed this journey through the most popular YouTube videos. Check back in a few weeks for more of the best from the web’s hottest social media websites.
