This week I’ve left comments on many videos, sent many PMs and subscribed to many up and coming channels, all as Cate, in an attempt to establish some sort of rapport with YouTube’s grassroots vlogging community, specifically Australian fasion/celebrity vloggers.
Christopher Cayari wrote an article regarding YouTube’s effects on the production and distribution of music (http://www.ijea.org/v12n6/v12n6.pdf), but it had some interesting insight regarding the networking aspect of YouTube which becomes essential if you want to succeed. I also viewed early videos and recorded early activity of now famous vloggers and attempted to emulate their style of networking.
As of yet the interactions have not yielded any results, with the only direct reply to a comment being a polite request to carry out our business elsewhere.
Still, people are talking to Cate, and that’s a start.
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