Eatthatpopcorn, hope you're having a good day with adding videos to YouTube! First, in promoting your YouTube channel you need to realize that your channel does not start with one video, but your whole channel, and your profile on YouTube.

1. Customize Your Channel Design

First you should customize your channel design, and make sure your profile is designed the way you like it, but nicely enough so that people think that your profile is worth visiting. Study the top YouTube channels, what everyone is subscribing to, and ask yourself if you see any patterns. Look at what they are doing to appeal to subscribers.

Channels I like you should check out:

Hot For Words
http://www.youtube.com/user/hotforwords

Lisa Nova
http://www.youtube.com/user/lisanova

College Humor
http://www.youtube.com/user/collegehumor

Fred
http://www.youtube.com/user/Fred

Now, you can see that all these subscribers have certain themes or an appealing background, and they are all customized.

2. Focus on a Topic of Interest

You need to focus! Ask yourself the following questions:

Who is my audience and am I appealing to them?
What is the purpose of my YouTube channel?
Why should anyone view my YouTube channel?
Do I have a particular video genre that I am focused on showing?

Don't just post all kinds of videos. You must focus on a topic, or else you will lose subscribers interest, as they have no purpose to go to your videos over another's videos. As you can see from above, some post videos on comedy, while others are informational.

3. Add Friends Through Popular Channels

Growing your network, and adding friends from the popular YouTube channels will assist you with getting more people to find out about your channel.

Here is a link to the most subscribed to channels:

http://www.youtube.com/members?g=0&s=ms&t=a

4. Submit a Video with a Purpose

Don't just submit a video, yet think before submit a video. If you are not going to watch your own video, then do not submit it. If you only know a few people will watch it, then do not submit it. If you really believe the video serves a purpose, the video can get you a 5 star rating when people watch it, then submit it. If the video serves a particular audience, covers a particular topic, or is just plain interesting, then submit it. The best videos are usually well thought out, and submitted with a purpose.

5. Use the "Share Video" link

Copy and paste that link, and send out your videos to friends, family, and anyone you know. You might even want to Digg your video.

6. Blog and link your blog to your YouTube videos.

7. Ask questions on Mahalo Answers and add your YouTube videos. Maybe one of your videos can be based around a question. Possibly one of your videos can be used in an answer, and you can even say that this was your video.

8. Pay For Views

Yes, you've read that correctly. You can pay for views. There are sites out there like 750 Industries and Viewing Wizards that will guarantee you get a minimum of 10,000 views. Viewing Wizards will get you 10,000 views for $7.50. Note, I've never used this service. However, I know that 750 Industries is a reputable company, and they have so many ways to get people viewing your videos if you pay them.

750 Industries
http://www.750industries.com

Viewing Wizards
http://www.viewingwizards.com

9. Get Cards

Lastly, you can get yourself some cards and put your YouTube URL on it, and hand them out to people wherever you go, and say something like, "check out my YouTube channel, and subscribe!" Telling people to subscribe always helps.

Good luck, Eatthatpopcorn!
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As a viewer point of view
How do I get to watch different videos
a)Links from my friends--- one of the best way of spreading.
b)The topic being hot news and being in the first few to spread it---another way of spreading
c)news about celebrities
d)spreading through sites like orkut,facebook through friends
edit: I forgot to add blogs :) .
This is how myself and some of my friend gets to watch
Hope it helps
Source(s):
Personal point of view.I have given names of some websites

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You can do many things to promote your You Tube Channel. You can spread out your channel to your family first and then to your relatives, to your friends or to your office.

The next thing you can do is to do announcements online. If you have a Blog or personal website perhaps you can use it to promote your You Tube Channel. There are many online community offering forums and discussions which can be beneficial to you and to your channel.

Try to make your influence grow online by joining various communities. Blogging is one way of promoting your Channel. Many people today rely on reviews which can help them in their search.

Bur the most effective one is ti start in your own You Tube Channel. Try to evaluate your videos and read your comments too. Ratings and comments will be the one increasing your popularity on You Tube. Try making your videos in high definition to attract viewers.

Give a good Title to your videos but not misleading of course to its content. Acknowledge every comments form you viewers and give a shot of their request. Other users can help you establish a good and fast growing influence in You Tube.
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i am me
Source(s):
http://www.youtube.com/user/allxclubbizz

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