YouTube - InVideo Programming is a killer feature for musicians

We mentioned this new YouTube feature a week or two ago, but it is SO important here's a little round-up of posts about it.

In short, you can now put an image linking to your channel page or an image and link featuring a video across ALL your videos - all with one click.

This means that when you have a new video uploaded, you can promote it across all your existing videos. Alternatively, you can create a custom image that links to your channel with a 'call to action' asking people to subscribe.

The ability to promote a new video automatically across a whole channel is a very big deal - get to it.

Here's Prescription's piece on it: http://www.prescriptionmusicpruk.com/the-prescription/2012/10/30/an-important-new-youtube-feature-for-musicians.html

Here's YouTube's own - http://youtubecreator.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/keep-your-audience-engaged-with-invideo.html

And, this from the ever brilliant Smart Passive Income site covers it as part of a longer post which is well worth a read -  http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/how-to-hand-out-flyers-online-old-school-and-new-school/

100 Great social media tips

Don't click on this link unless you have some tiume on your hands!

It's a list of 100 great socila media tips but each tip links to another article and pretty much all of them are really worthwhile. It just cost me well over an hour of productivity.

Bookmark it for sure.

Click here for the 100 tips.

Want to link from your YouTube video to your site...or iTunes?

This is a killer update from YouTube and something that every artist I work with has wanted to be able to do for sometime.

You can now create an annotation in a video on YouTube and link it so people can click through directly to your site or to your music on iTunes or a whole host of other places.

Well, you can....if you're a premium partner. 

And I know most DIY musicians aren't.

So having gotten you all excited, sorry to dash your hopes, but there are a whole load of DIY and Indie musicians who are already premium partners on YouTube and if that doesn't include you, it's yet another incentive to make YouTube a major priority.

Plus, of course, often the features that first appear on premium partner channels find their way to all of us.

Here's hoping.

Here's the link to YouTube to read all about it.