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"8 YouTube Tips from History's Greatest Content Creators"
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8 YouTube Tips from History's Great Creators

Published on Nov 22, 2015

Return to the fundamentals with these timeless content creation tips - relevant to your YouTube channel and beyond.

In this presentation, vidIQ takes a look at timeless content creation quotes and tips to inspire better marketing by focusing on a more authentic approach to making ad content for better YouTube audience development. Better content means a better experience for users and creators.

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8 Tips from History's Greatest content Creators

presented by vidIQ
"8 YouTube Tips from History's Greatest Content Creators"
presented by vidIQ (www.vidiq.com)
compiled by Laura Fones (www.laurafones.com)

All photos used with permission (i.e. Creative Commons)

"Every Action MUST

  BE PROMPTED BY A MOTIVE." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Every action needs to be prompted by a motive."
- Leonardo da Vinci

Quote Credit: BrainyQuote.com (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/l/leonardoda542507.html)

Original Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/vinothchandar/8093281752

Photo Credit: Vinoth Chandar (https://www.flickr.com/photos/vinothchandar/)

“Of all our inventions for mass communication,

PICTURES STILL SPEAK THE MOST UNIVERSALLY UNDERSTOOD LANGUAGE.” (Disney)
“Of all our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”
-Walt Disney

Quote Credit: BrainyQuote.com (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/waltdisney131651.html)

Original Image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x-ray_delta_one/4355598762

Photo Credit: James Vaughan (https://www.flickr.com/photos/x-ray_delta_one/)

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

Confucius
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
- Confucius

Quote Credit: BrainyQuote.com (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/confucius161594.html)

Original Image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frontierofficial/7131303323

Photo Credit: FrontierOfficial (http://www.flickr.com/photos/frontierofficial/)

“Pleasure in the job

PUTS PERFECTION IN THE WORK.” (Aristotle)
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
- Aristotle

Quote Credit: BrainyQuote.com (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/aristotle377765.html)

Original Image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lac-bac/4678561879/

Photo Credit: BiblioArchives / LibraryArchives (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lac-bac/)

“Information is not knowledge.”

Albert Einstein

“Time you enjoy wasting,

WAS NOT WASTED.” (John Lennon)
"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
- John Lennon

Quote Credit: BrainyQuote.com (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnlennon108522.html)

Original Image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabiolarebello/206950948

Photo Credit: Fabiola Medeiros (http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabiolarebello/)

“A fool thinks himself to be wise

BUT A WISE MAN KNOWS HIMSELF TO BE A FOOL.” (Shakespeare)
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
- William Shakespeare

Quote Credit: BrainyQuote.com (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/williamsha109517.html)

Original Image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/myklroventine/3405291415

Photo Credit: Mykl Roventine (http://www.flickr.com/photos/myklroventine/)

“Alone we can do so little

TOGETHER WE CAN DO SO MUCH.” (Helen Keller)
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
- Helen Keller

Quote Credit: BrainyQuote.com (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/helenkelle382259.html)

Original Image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/holtsman/4324300694

Photo Credit: Melanie Holtsman (http://www.flickr.com/photos/holtsman/)

Speaking of which...

Speaking of which...

does your content need a bigger audience?

Does your content need a bigger audience?

Photo Credit: HaikuDeck
Photo by Neal.

these creators needed one

  • Vincent Van Gogh (sold only 2 paintings)
  • Edgar Allen Poe (died in poverty)
  • Franz Kafka (worked in insurance)
These creators needed one:
- Vincent Van Gogh (sold only 2 paintings)
- Edgar Allen Poe (died in poverty)
- Franz Kafka (worked in insurance)

This information, and information like it, is widely available both in high school Lit classrooms and during lengthy Wikipedia research loops.

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"who's missing out on my creative genius?"

it really makes you wonder,
It really makes you wonder,
"Who's missing out on MY creative genius?"

(Here at vidIQ, we're regularly concerned with both this question and the overall reach of your creative genius.)

Photo Credit: HaikuDeck

everyone

short answer,
short answer,
EVERYONE

(From the standpoint of statistical significance and measuring against the current global population, this calculation is almost certainly accurate.)

but we'd like to change that

but we'd like to change that

(To be clear, we'd like to change "that" in the sense of helping more people find your YouTube video content; NOT we'd like to change "that" in the sense of decreasing the global population to whatever number of people are currently enjoying your YouTube video content.

The latter interpretation is just batty.)

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hello,

we're vidIQ
Hello,
we're vidIQ

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with real-time Analytics, SEO strategY, Channel optimization & more

vidIQ empowers YouTube creators and brands
vidIQ empowers YouTube creators and brands with real-time analytics, SEO strategy, channel optimization and more.

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(we're interested)
Interested? (we're interested)

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thanks for watching

and thanks for creating
Thanks for watching and thanks for creating.

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