How to Promote Your Children's Book on YouTube

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By mkh1958
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YouTube is a super way to promote your children's book! YouTube is free and can be viewed by anyone with an internet connection. YouTube especially lends itself to promoting a children's book because you can showcase illustrations while telling the story. Follow each step to successfully promote a children's book on YouTube.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Video camera or webcam
Your children's book
Video editing software
Simple background
Practice reading aloud

Step 1

Choose your background setting to film your children's book video. It should be as simple as possible unless you are going to decorate a set to coordinate with the setting of the book. Decide if you want to video your book reading inside or outside.
Step 2

Light the book well so kids or parents watching can see the illustrations. Be sure you're microphone is high quality so your children's book reading can be heard easily.
Step 3

Choose the story from your children's book to be read. It the book is all one story, you may choose to read it all or only a portion, depending on its length. The maximum length is 10 minutes. Leave time to introduce the children's book and tell how to purchase the book.
Step 4

Practice reading different characters with different voices. Do several trial runs and view the video. Are you portraying the children's book as you would like it to be seen? Do you need to dress in costume?
Step 5

Shoot your YouTube video of the children's book reading. Re-shoot or edit it as necessary until you're happy with the quality.
Step 6

The next step in promoting your children's book on YouTube is to log onto YouTube.com and sign up for a free account. Follow the simple directions to create an account, then click on the "Upload" button on the top right hand corner of the page.
Step 7

On the Video File Upload page, press "Upload Video" and choose your children's book video. Your file can be up to 2 GB in size and up to 10 minutes in length. Your children's book video is now available to the entire YouTube community!
Step 8

If you want to invest a little more for extra promotion of your children's book on YouTube, look at the Promoted Video and other Advertising campaign tips and options.