What are some good solutions to driving up YouTube views on my recent TEDx video?

Here are some obvious answers:

1) Run a Google AdWords campaign to drive views to your video through the 4 different paid ad options for YouTube videos
2) Run a Facebook ad campaign
3) Run a StumbleUpon paid discovery campaign
4) Submit / share your video to video curation sites like
ShowYou
5) Send out an email campaign promoting your video (or partner with someone that has an established list)

Here are some less obvious answers:

1) Annotate your other YouTube videos and/or get other YouTube Channels to add annotations to some of their highly viewed videos
2) Have your video posted on popular Facebook Pages and pay to promote the post
3) Submit your video to social groups / communities (e.g. Facebook Groups, LinkedIn Groups, Google+ Communities, etc)
4) Create a landing page on your site, embed your video and optimize the page around a keyword theme to get the page to rank organically for relevant key phrases
5) Find influencers on Twitter (using a tool like Followerwonk) to get them to post your video on their social channels

This really depends on your audience and the strength of the content. What is your video about?

In general, you can start building momentum by getting your influential friends to spread the link. Then share the link with communities of your target audience (you may find the communities on Twitter, Facebook Pages, Reddit, or other forums like Hackernews).

For most websites and forums, it is usually really important to get a lot of views very early on. * The details vary depending on the ranking criteria of the websites.

In addition to doing some outreach/PR to get it seen and shared in more places, there's probably some work that could be done on the title, description, and tags. Adding corrected captions can help too. Remember that YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine and people won't be able to find your video if you don't have the words they're searching for associated with it.

If you want a video to have the chance of going viral, it is necessary to set up support in advance to get a lot of likes, comments and shares immediately upon uploading. If your video is already uploaded, there is less pressure to make that happen.

The best way to get more visibility quickly is to work with someone who already has connections you can tap. Many people who do blog outreach collaborate with bloggers who are influential on social media as well.

A blog outreach project will raise visibility, get your video embedded in many posts, provide relevant links to your site and your video, and each one of those posts can be promoted across social networks. They can even link to each other to rank multiple posts for target keyword phrases.

We use multiple platforms to place content and increase reach including PostJoint, InkyBee, and GuestCrew for identifying blogs with social media influence. Posts containing your video can then be promoted using tools such as JustRetweet and ViralContentBuzz.

Google loves video. Putting video into posts gets those posts featured higher in search engines. Combining both will get your video more views.

I have posts that explain much of what I mention in this response. If you'd like links or additional details feel free to ask.