Dear Genia106,

Yesterday, I was looking at surfcottage's videos. I had not looked at her channel for awhile. Sometimes I look at the videos with the most views, and then wonder why that video got so many more views than her other views. Frequently it is because of one word in the search like Titanic or Bolero, or the famous song, or something is in the news, or the story is popular right now, but who knows sometimes. She has a video with a cowboy theme, but it is not about movie stars. I have used some of Willie's music, but not cowboy music, so I looked through my Willie music downloads and picked out the song.

Then I looked at my list to pick out a cowboy movie star. I had put Johnny's name on my list when I had made my Mary Pickford video. When I put his name on the list I thought that I would never get around to it, but I knew that I wanted to make a few videos about western movies. I did not know much about him, but he really was in a lot of movies.

I frequently make videos about people who are not on my list yet, and I keep adding people to the list, so my list never seems to get any shorter. For some of the singers and my favorite stars like Clara Bow and Jean Harlow, I will probably make a video about her once or twice a year. It is easier to make a second video because I already have some of the pictures collected. I do not know when I will get tired of making these things, but I assume that I will eventually. I decided not to make a long list for my second channel.It could seem overwhelming. I assume that I will get tired of this later and slow down on making videos.

Yours truly,
Ellen

Dear Youtube friend,

I sometimes think about how to increase my views of my Youtube videos. I make videos because I would like people to watch them. It does not really matter to me exactly how many people watch them, but I do want people to find them somehow in their Youtube searches.

A Youtube friend's wonderful video with Trumpet Bolero had received over 100,000 views. The link is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo0231yRDhM

This is not Ravel's Bolero, but I assume because video may be successful because the name Bolero is in the title. Perhaps it ended up in some popular playlists too. I have noticed also that Ravel's Bolero sometimes gets a lot of views too. I might use Ravel's Bolero with a silent movie star video later to see if it gets a lot of views too. You might like to use the song too. Whatever you make will be different from mine. Doug even made a second video using this same song with different pictures.

My Sing a Song video has over 10,000 views. I wondered why it received so many more views than my other videos. I decided that this may have happened because it was close to the top of the page when I did a search for the song. And it may have ended up close to the top of the page because it was on a popular playlist. So I started some new playlists, and I put my friends videos in there too. It may just take some time for some of these videos to be noticed later.

When I have tried to get more views on my videos, I look at MrKingsRow's channel. He has some videos that get thousands of views, and then others that just get 300 like mine. And of course the videos with 300 views are usually just as good as the ones with many more views. I thought that it must be the song or singer is what helps people find the video in the searches.

They may be more apt to look for the music, rather than the movie star. This was one of the reasons that I started the second channel. Shabannie's channel was never intended to be an old music channel, but a few of my viewers seemed to think so and made rude remarks when I used modern music. Well, only one of them really was mean about it. I decided that I would like to choose the more modern song first, and then decide what kind of video to make with it without the movie star themes more like MrKingsRow, copycat me. His channel may get more views than mine because it is more of a music channel, rather than a movie star channel like Shabannie. So ZPopZRock's channel was created.

Yours truly,
Ellen

About Shabannie

When I selected my user name, Shabannie, I really did not think that I would keep the Youtube channel long. I set up the channel so that I could collect my favorites and make remarks. I did not check the channel much at first, because nobody wrote to me. I used to have a friend named Shabani from India. I intentionally misspelled the name so that I would be the only one to use the spelling. Sometimes I wish that I had chosen another user name, but Shabannie has worked for me. And the name does not lock me into making only one kind of videos like it would have if I selected something based on a movie star name like I considered.

Letter to FASHIONCONSPIRACY

I always tell myself that the number of views does not really matter as long some of my Youtube friends keep coming back to my channel. But I still think about it. I recently was looking at the views for my videos, and I wondered why a few of them had not gotten that many views yet. I decided again that the videos that I had recently put in playlist had really increased in views, and perhaps the others did not because I did not put them in a playlist yet. So yesterday and today I created a few new playlists, and I put most of the videos in one or two new playlists.

I may have a lot of playlists displayed right now, but I can always hide some of them later. It just may depend on the theme I have that week. Also, instead of taking videos down later, you might consider just making them private.

Yours truly,
Ellen

Letter to Likekinds

Dear Doug,

I just looked at your new video from my new channel. I enjoyed it of course. 100,000 views is really quite amazing for a slideshow video. Thank you for introducing me to this song, Trompet Bolero. I had been thinking about using Ravel's Bolero, a completely different song I know, with one of my silent movie stars. I had recently seen a video with the music performed by Pink Martini, and it also received an amazing number of views.

I guess that if I wanted to compose music, I should just put Bolero in the name and it might get more attention. Putting Bo Derek's name in the song might help it too. Ha. When I first started making videos, I wondered how am I ever going to get people to look at my videos, and will they really want to. I mostly have done it via a growing network of Youtube friends, other people who make nice videos. Shabannie now has a growing number of diverse friends. I decided not to care too much about the number of views as long as my Youtube friends keep coming back again. I also get concerned that if my videos get a lot of views, the Youtube police might bother me more.

But I still thought about why other videos get more views than some of mine. I also wondered why my Sing a Song video has received so many views compared to my other videos. I did a search for the song, and I discovered that this video had ended up on someone's playlist, and the playlist ended up close to the top of the page when I did my search. So I decided to start making a few new playlists.

One day I was looking at my friends channel, MrKingsRow. His videos get a lot more views than mine. In terms of editing, his videos are about the same as mine except that he uses Moviemaker now. His transitions and effects are not that much better than the ones I use. O decided that people were mostly interested in the music. I decided that his videos were so popular because he makes more videos about singers, rather than movie stars like Shabannie has been doing. Plus of course he is friendly, and appreciates nice comments. When new people are doing their Youtube searches, they are more apt to be looking for music. So that is why I started my second channel, ZPopZRock. The new channel will really start getting more viewers soon because I have more videos posted now.

Oh well, enough people look at my videos now. I get friend invites from all sorts of people. I hope that you have a good week. I really do like your videos. I still need to learn the Moviemaker software. I have had a few projects already started, so I will probably use Onetruemedia at least until after Christmas.

Let me know if you decide to start a blog.

Yours truly,
Ellen

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