How to Run the Best YouTube Contest in 10 Easy Steps

Last Updated on September 24th, 2019 at 11:04 am

the Best YouTube Contest
You want to increase subscribers, win leads, and drive sales? A YouTube giveaway could help with all of these goals (and more). Marketing on YouTube is all about building community, and the best YouTube contest is a good way to do this. Not only do they assist viewers to engage and feel connected to your brand. They also inspire likes, comments, and shares—all of which influence your YouTube search rankings.

In this post, we will share key tips for hosting a YouTube contest.  Continue reading →



How to Use Instagram’s Questions Sticker

Last Updated on September 18th, 2019 at 11:02 am

Instagram's Questions Sticker

Instagram is an undeniably highly effective channel for businesses to achieve a huger audience — in fact, nearly 80% of the platform’s one billion users follow at least one business on Instagram.

The platform is ultimately a site for engagement: we “like” friends’ pictures, comment on their posts, and tag friends in influencer giveaways to try and win a free pair of yoga pants.

In short — in case your brand is on Instagram, you should be communicating and engaging with your audience.

Luckily, in 2018 Instagram launched a new function that makes it simpler than ever to engage with, and receive feedback from, your followers — the Instagram’s Questions Sticker.

Here, let’s dive into how to use it. Continue reading →


A DIY vocal booth is the best way for recording great sounding vocals at home.

Vocals are one of the most essential elements of a track. Getting them right in a home studio could be tough.

There are no fancy mixing techniques that could save you when you record your vocals poorly at the source.

However it hopeless. With a bit of knowledge of the basics and some common materials, you could make a surprisingly effective vocal tracking environment at home.

Right here’s everything you should build a DIY vocal booth to get studio quality vocals. Continue reading →


5 Ways to Get More Views Through YouTube Recommendations

Last Updated on September 13th, 2019 at 10:00 am

Most of the discussion about get more views on YouTube concentrates on YouTube SEO, social media promotion, and gaining subscribers. While these contribute to the discovery of your videos, alone they do not unlock the lion’s share of views you stand to gain from YouTube’s recommendation engine (via YouTube’s homepage and “recommended for you” suggestions).

If you wish to get more views on Youtube in the long term, you should know some ways to get more views through Youtube Recommendations. Continue reading →


Do You Know How the YouTube Algorithm Works?

Last Updated on September 13th, 2019 at 10:04 am

Lots of video creators, whether pro YouTubers or YouTube brands regard the YouTube algorithm as a complete mystery—a higher power that rules over their view counts, completely out of their control.

They believe there is no understanding of how the YouTube algorithm works. It’s one of the platform’s most carefully guarded secrets, after all.

Except it isn’t. 

In a research paper updated in 2016, a team of Google engineers showed their ideas about how videos might be surfaced through YouTube’s recommendation engine for better user experience.

While it did not get much attention at that time, it has lots of relevance to the YouTube of today since, base on YouTube’s Chief Product Officer, 70% of YouTube views now come through this recommendation engine.

Most of the discussion about getting views on YouTube concentrates on YouTube SEO, social media promotion, and gaining subscribers. While these contribute to the discovery of your videos, alone they do not unlock the lion’s share of views you stand to gain from YouTube’s recommendation engine (via YouTube’s homepage and “recommended for you” suggestions).

If you wish to get more video views in the long term, you should know a few things about how the YouTube algorithm works in 2019. Continue reading →



MIDI Editing: 6 Essential Tips for Better MIDI Tracks

Last Updated on September 13th, 2019 at 11:02 am

MIDI editing

MIDI editing could be tedious. Nothing takes you out of the flow of writing songs like spending too long moving MIDI events around.

However, it does not have to be frustrating. There are a lot of useful methods you could use to speed up your MIDI editing and make more expressive parts.

In this article, I will show you six MIDI editing techniques you could bring into your workflow right away. Continue reading →


15 Creative and Engaging Instagram Post Ideas (1/2)

Last Updated on September 10th, 2019 at 12:07 pm

Instagram Post Ideas

Great Instagram post ideas promote your brand and engage your followers—all while giving them something they cannot help but share with others.

However, it isn’t enough to just post any image or video. You should separate yourself from the pack and offer your followers unique and artistic content they cannot get anyplace else.

That could be hard—particularly when you consider over 95 million photos and videos are posted each day to the app. So what could you publish on Instagram each day that will engage your followers?

We have compiled a list of 15 creative and engaging Instagram post ideas. It does not matter in case your brand is large or small. Use this list whenever you need a burst of inspiration for your Instagram feed. Continue reading →