Get Your Music Video on YouTube’s Most Viewed List In A Week

Posted on 22. Aug, 2008 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Inspired, Your Opinion, Please

PRSNewMusicStageThis is a bit of a social media experiment.

A few hours ago, I discovered that if you searched for ‘New Music Videos’ on Google.co.uk, this humble website was the fifth search result returned.

That’s Real Fresh TV’s New Music Videos page, listed higher on Google than MTV UK, NME.com and Channel 4.

Go ahead and try it… hopefully nothing has changed.

Now that might not mean anything to you but it means a lot to me.

This blog may look like something an advertising agency threw together on whim but that has not always been the case.

As you can read here, Real Fresh TV started out in ‘music publishing’.

We used to be an Internet TV portal for new music from around Manchester, UK.

We made Europe’s first live music video podcast, the 3 Minute Gig and we discovered the Ting Tings.  Them of Apple iPod Ad fame and number 1 UK album.

OK, make that we filmed the Ting Tings way before they were famous.

Now… what do we do with this remarkable legacy in new UK music discovery…

We advise ad agencies on how to do cool internet marketing campaigns with blogs, podcasts, online communities and web videos.

It was the most sensible way of paying the bills.

Real Fresh TV ranking higher than Channel 4, MTV UK and the NME website for searches for ‘New Music Videos’ completely validates all the unpaid hard work that went into filming all those gigs two years ago.  And warms my heart.

Anyway… after picking my jaw up off the floor, I got thinking about how to use this new found notoriety for ‘New Music Videos’ for some good.

Upon finding out after glancing through our Site Meter logs, I tweeted a fellow Manchester blogger (and musician) MartinSFP about my findings, offering to promote his next music video.

He replied by pointing me to his most recent work on YouTube.  Which I watched and enjoyed.

This got me thinking.

What if I ran an experiment to see if we could get an unsigned band’s video to the most viewed list on YouTube, normally reserved for recording greats like Avril Lavigne and most of the Universal Music Group’s portfolio of artistes after reviewing them on here.

Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could use our Google Juice to propel an unsigned band into YouTube’s Hall of Internet Infamy.

I know this is sounding a bit overambitious but hey, anything worth doing is worth doing well.

And if it doesn’t work…  Well, I dunno… Whatever.  I have nothing to lose.

So here’s the plan.

I am offering a UK-based band the opportunity to get involved in this race for views.

Simply leave a comment here with a link to your video on YouTube.  If you have one.

At the end of 7 days, I will pick one video at random.  I will review this video and post it on the Real Fresh TV blog on the New Music Videos page.

What This Means
After allowing Google a little time to index the Real Fresh TV site, this band’s video and review will now be returned at the the fifth search result for ‘new music videos’ on Google.co.uk.  It will replace the snippet of a review for Vincent Van Go Go’s ‘Do You Know’ video currently showing.

What You Need To Do
Your job then is to

  • tell your friends that your music video is sitting pretty as the #5 search result for ‘New Music Videos’ on Google.co.uk. Above MTV UK, Channel 4 and NME.com!
  • ask your friends and fans to get more people to view your video

The whole point of this exercise is to significantly increase the number of views your video received before being reviewed on the Real Fresh TV website.

So, the heat is on.

Send me some links to some cool music videos on YouTube.

The music video must be by an unsigned or indie UK band.  Sorry to exclude the ‘rest of the world’ but this search experiment is being limited to Google.co.uk.

Videos with the slightest hint of pornography, racism or violence will be ignored.

If you have any comments or questions, fire away.  Be warned, however, music videos will receive more of my attention.

Photo Credit:  MCPS-PRS Alliance’s Flickr photostream

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  5. Real Fresh TV wins Manchester Evening News Blog of the Week award

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34 Responses to “Get Your Music Video on YouTube’s Most Viewed List In A Week”

  1. san diego funeral singer 27 August 2008 at 10:01 pm #

    you tube became a billion dollar company over night when they were bought out by google.

  2. Chi-chi Ekweozor 28 August 2008 at 1:54 pm #

    @san diego funeral singer:

    True.

    Interesting comment. Have you got anything else to add?

  3. personal trainer chicago 29 August 2008 at 7:10 pm #

    youtube allows computer people like me to waste hours surfin the vids.

  4. Joe 4 September 2008 at 10:15 am #

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyicr-59hw8

  5. Peter 5 September 2008 at 10:04 pm #

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJSqTEZg1LQ

  6. Tiffany Aurora 30 November 2008 at 9:39 pm #

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzx0dI4crPA

  7. Charlese 15 January 2009 at 11:10 am #

    Original song written by Liverpool based Matthew Shaw

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Pxnk3YUbU&feature=channel

  8. Drew 17 January 2009 at 6:16 am #

    Nice Site. Keep up the good work.
    Thanks,
    Drew

  9. Amber 26 January 2009 at 2:59 am #

    Please be sure to comment, rate, and subscribe!!!

  10. AztroZeroFilms 4 March 2009 at 9:30 pm #

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gud-QMDrZao&feature=channel_page

  11. Gibran 2 April 2009 at 5:30 pm #

    http://www.youtube.com/mademenrecords

    Indie label, Street Legends are the artist.

  12. ice 27 May 2009 at 7:21 pm #

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hCiQhxak2I

  13. Charlese 1 June 2009 at 7:51 pm #

    According to You Tube’s ‘insight’, and my own observation, just one of my videos has had more hits today that other videos that have reached the ‘Most Viewed Today’ list and yet my channel doesn’t appear in the list. Bottom of the list is 177, yet mine has had over 300. Can anyone explain why this is? Does anyone understand how it works?! (I am in the UK…anyone know when YouTube’s ‘day’ begins & ends?)

    http://www.youtube.com/charleseallen

  14. Charlese 1 June 2009 at 8:17 pm #

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SXWWMEj7as

    Just downloaded the stats this is the data:
    30/05/09 Total views 341 of which unique 290
    31/05/09 Total views 386 of which unique 328

    Does anyone know if it is just the unique views that count and when You Tube’s “Day” begins and ends?

  15. Matt Anstee 10 June 2009 at 9:35 pm #

    Aaron King – You Don’t Know What It Is
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHcY9wsJw0o

  16. Sturdy 11 June 2009 at 1:30 am #

    It’s all about the jazz just give it a try.

  17. Sturdy 11 June 2009 at 1:31 am #

    It’s all about the jazz let’s give this a try

  18. Robbie 19 June 2009 at 2:02 am #

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTqvU7_CeL0

  19. Robbie Baldwin 19 June 2009 at 2:03 am #

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTqvU7_CeL0

  20. TJ 28 July 2009 at 12:43 am #

    Beautiful. Simple. Check it out:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihBvENJqK_Y

  21. Anubis_Anubis 16 September 2009 at 4:32 am #

    Band called Angora.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkBnad2g1eQ

    UNIVERSOANGORA

  22. Bleed Electric 27 October 2009 at 5:22 am #

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WBWezII01I&feature=popt0agb14

  23. çizgi film izle 1 November 2009 at 8:26 pm #

    very nıce thx…

  24. str8 3 November 2009 at 12:36 am #

    check dis song out
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHk9SCQ2bik

  25. Get Your Music Video on YouTube’s Most Viewed List In A Week 8 December 2009 at 11:58 am #

    cool videos everyone check this one out

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKhAS26ijUc&feature=featured

  26. Scott Moseley 9 December 2009 at 9:37 am #

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9tvkzu575A

    We’re not even from the UK but I’m pretty sure it would be awesome if you could help out a little band from Australia

    plus our clip is pretty awesome

  27. Eastend Cabaret 18 December 2009 at 12:20 pm #

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs1-O4D8gE4

    christmas number one

  28. Martyn Hedges 23 January 2010 at 9:56 am #

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MwMWeVT98U

    It’s not my band, but made the vid.

    Terri monroe – stupid smile.

  29. abdul aka formula 18 February 2010 at 11:47 am #

    we are an unsighned group in the uk, this sounds interesting check the new song out let us know what you think

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cciZ61MeVkM

    thanks

  30. SEO Tutorial 20 February 2010 at 7:07 am #

    Hey I landed on your site by chance on google while hunting for something really unrelated but I am really pleased that I did, You have just added yourself another subscriber. :)


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