Right, that's why I don't deny FB's power of
exposure, it's the marketing and capitalizing on that exposure is where FB falls short compared to YT. It's a cheap 'view' when all it takes is for you to log onto FB and the video automatically plays whether you wanted it to or not, so has less value, from the creator/marketer's point of view.
It's the 'active' searching and viewing a video that you mention that is part of the 'engaging' that I speak of when I say that it's necessary to grow your fan base and make it count.
I just think this is all a part and parcel of Haley's personality. You can have 100 likes or retweets from Haley on social media but it will never compare to how engaging Haley is when you meet her in person. YouTube and the social media is part of 'work' something she does when she has the time or is motivated....but when she gets on stage, performs, meets and talks to her fans, that's when Haley truly shines. IMO Haley enjoys that much more and is more enthused about it because she, herself, is getting something out of it, a 'Human connection'. You can't get that from ANY social media interaction.
That's very much an 'old school' attitude of a true entertainer that she grew up observing/learning from her folks
(08-19-2016, 02:54 PM)john Wrote: She raised money for SMYM and put it up -- few views. She made the Better video -- modest views.
SMYM is a whole different story, she chose to make the money right out front from an agreement with Yahoo so they could get exclusive rights for a day to show the video...there were also other circumstances, a bulk of Haley's fan base, she grew from her Jazz, Blues, Rock performances...throw back, old school songs and performances. SMYM was the exact opposite of that. In Haley's mind, it was for the fans, for fun... the fans who put into the project took it more seriously than she did. When the song/video was revealed, nothing like the 'old school' vibe they grew to love from Haley, there was disappointment, especially from those who donated expecting something completely different from what they got.
We got to talk to Haley back stage after her performance at Hotel Cafe, shortly after SMYM video debuted on Yahoo... she gave us a number of how many views Yahoo got from just that one day they had the video exclusively.... needless to say, in one day, Yahoo got more views than SMYM has since it's debuted on Youtube over 2 years ago.
How much might that have changed the conversation? It certainly would have pushed SMYM up on Youtube, might have caught some internet sources to post about it, perhaps gained some traction, inspired people to use it?
(remember many of the initial articles about SMYM from other outlets, linked to the Yahoo version of the video, not to mention all of us, when we tweeted the video, tweeted the Yahoo post of SMYM, not the Youtube post... so most of the debut exposure went through Yahoo's SMYM video post)
"Too bad you can't transfer the Yahoo view counts onto YouTube....(oh well)"-Haley
Also, even though SMYM was available on iTunes, Haley spent zero effort promoting it, many of us got it via donating to indiegogo, or people got it from the internet....she didn't appear to care if the iTunes for the song sold or not, because, in her mind, the project was 'for fun' and she was paid by Yahoo.
I don't think view counts were even in Haley's mind when she organised all she did w/ SMYM
Just goes to re-enforce my opinion that Haley seems to just not think too much on that aspect of her career, right now.
