A-Ha! TV: Using YouTube’s 5,000 characters wisely

by Allen Voivod

Fast fact for you: The “Description” field for a YouTube video allows you to type up to 5,000 characters in there. So let’s do some quick ‘n dirty math!

Assuming an English language average of six characters per word (five + space/punctuation, based on unscientific Google results), that’s about 833 words. And assuming about 250 words per standard-margined, double-spaced Word doc page, that more than 3 pages of text you can stick in a YouTube Description field.

Holy keyword-stuffing temptation, Batman! Before you go nutty with this, check out the video for other ideas. Incidentally, it’s not the first time I’ve been seen in public with a wig for our company. But that’s another story entirely. :)

For those of you on Facebook who can’t see the video, but the wig comment made it absolutely necessary for you to see this at all costs, a quick trip over to YouTube will squelch your curiosity. (Thanks, too, to YouTube Marketing: A Hour a Day author Greg Jarboe for inspiring this video with his presentation during the 2010 Social Media Success Summit.)

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