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How to Create Great Welcome Campaigns for Your YouTube Fans

If you’re building a brand and promoting your products online, chances are you’re investing in videos that entertain, inform, and engage your potential customers and posting them on YouTube. The platform is so popular that it’s even given birth to a whole generation of YouTube celebrities like Jenna Marbles, Dude Perfect, Dan TDM and Fine Bros, who as a dad over 40 I never would have heard of if not for my child and my younger, cooler co-workers.

 

 

 

YouTube’s popularity makes it an amazing place to be found by new people interested in what you do or sell. Every day people of all ages seek out videos on their desktop and mobile devices that you can reach to grow your total audience. In fact, here are a few statistics that show exactly how big a deal the platform really is:

  • 1,300,000,000 people currently use YouTube
  • YouTube gets over 30 million visitors and almost 5 billion video views per day
  • 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
  • In an average month, 8 out of 10 18-49 year-olds watch YouTube
  • YouTube overall—and even YouTube on mobile alone—reaches more 18-34 and 18-49 year-olds than any cable network in the U.S.
  • The number of hours people spend watching videos on YouTube is up 60% year-over-year

Going From YouTube Fans to Customers

As great as your following can be, at some point, you’ll want to push your YouTube fans to your website to get them on your email list and buying from your online store. 

But what’s the best way to greet them when they get there?  After all, these are people you already have a relationship with, not some random visitor to your website!

Using highly targeted pop ups makes it easy to welcome your YouTube fans to your store and increase the likelihood that they’ll make a purchase. That way they feel the love and have a consistent experience across the different platforms. Here are a few tips to get you started:

Target Visitors from YouTube Specifically

Using audience targeting, you can make sure that your focused pop up is only seen by folks coming right from YouTube. That way in your YouTube videos and links, you can still send people to your home page instead of some complicated URL.

To do this in Privy, just go into the audience targeting section in the Design step of building your campaign. Choose “referring URL contains” and type in YouTube. You’ll also want your campaign to launch as soon as someone arrives on your site so they are instantly engaged.

Create a Special Offer

Now that you’ve turned your fans to website visitors, you’ll want to give them a reason to buy. Creating a special discount or offer just for YouTube fans and including it in your sign up form gives people a reason to enter their information, which you can use in the future to promote new products, awesome videos, and special promotions. Go a step further by including the word YOUTUBE in your discount code so they know it’s just for them.

Make a Special Welcome Video

Your YouTube fans obviously like your videos. So keep 'em coming! Create a simple 30-second video message that welcomes them to your website and tells them about the exclusive offer they should sign up for and embed it in your welcome pop up. Make it direct and personal and thank your fans for coming to your store or website.

Make Some Cine-Magic

There you have it. Now you’ve given people a reason to visit your store from YouTube and targeted a message just for them. And if you’re investing in other social channels, you can follow the same process to create Instagram or Facebook centric welcome campaigns!

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Written by Josh Mendelsohn

Josh brings his marketing chops and lifelong passion for jam bands, craft beer, and SMBs to the team at Privy. Having spent time working at SMB and ecommerce leaders like Constant Contact and Salsify, he has a deep understanding of how to help small and medium sized ecommerce businesses be all that they can be. In addition to leading Privy's marketing team, Josh spends too much of his time managing his pug Marvin's instagram account.

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