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How to promote your video
Promotion is what spreads your video around to a new audience. As YouTube is a type of social media which is often watched on mobile phones, then using other forms of social media which will be viewed on the same screen is an easy, quick and free way to promote your video. There are many social media marketing methods to try out in Fig 1.
Animation on Youtube in 2015 Major Research Project

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Maintaining an active presence online keeps your fans from becoming disengaged.By regularly posting something on your accounts, you will keep reminding them that you're still there and the more you post, the more the audience will remember to look out for any updates. YouTube itself has a lot of inside tricks and applications in Fig 2. to use when it comes to helping you to promote your video.

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what's trending online and (Mahindru, 2014) says, " Every time you use a hashtag it increases your potential reach".
Use hastags that are popular on these sites so it gets your video up there with

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"You can get more views by optimizing your YouTube videos for search 
engines," (Mahindru, 2014).Tag keywords in your description for the video with things that are relevant to your video but are also very popular and highly searched for, giving it a higher chance of being seen and uses search engine optimization

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Use the Youtube Fan Finder program, where you can submit five different
adverts for your channel and they get sent to five random people watching Youtube for free which is a very effective tool to use, which (Mahindru, 2014) states, "Fan Finder is a great way to build a bigger audience at no cost to you!"

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The Frederator Network, an animation channel on Youtube have looked at their video analytics and have assessed when the best time is to post on Youtube to ensure the maximum amount of views.

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The Best Days and Times to Post Youtube Videos
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best time to upload is from Thursday to Friday- 12am-3pm before views start to drop on Sunday. This is when people are on their breaks at work or people's free time. By posting around these times, it gives you the best chance of you getting your video seen by many. As Frederator Network is an animation channel, then this analysis is relevant to my study and is a useful article.
From the analysis from Frederator Network (Gielen, 2015), it shows that the

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Fig 1. (Rich, 2014)
Fig 2. (Shopify, n.d.)

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