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The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube

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Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2010 YouTube is both a major opportunity and an interesting challenge for news sites. So I wonder if BBC has stopped maintaining its news channels on YouTube.

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NewsPulse Gives CNN.com a New Way to Showcase Popular Content

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Related posts: The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough? The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube Google Living Stories – Just Snazzy Topic Pages or is Google onto Something? How “popularity” is determined is not specifically defined, but it is likely a simple metric like page views.

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Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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by Adam Sherk on October 6, 2010 It is safe to say that most news sites are now experimenting with various forms of user engagement and content promotion through social media. But in going through the site a substantial portion of the content is news so I opted to include it. Also surprised how well some magazines did.

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Google News Optimization Tips

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Articles need to be “objective news” to lead a story cluster (op-ed, satire, press releases and subscription content are not eligible to lead clusters). Duplication and Novelty Detection – More credit is given to original sources of content. To get your videos into Google News you need to create a YouTube channel.

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Do Google's Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings?

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This gives publishers the opportunity for greater exposure to users looking for content from their specific site (and who may not be familiar with the “site:” search operator). News brands seem to fare better with the embedded video listings, although I also came across several examples (not pictured above) in which YouTube got both results.

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StumbleUpon Channels: Which Media Brands Are Doing Well?

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StumbleUpon Channels are a good opportunity for publishers (and any business involved in content marketing) because they create a direct pipeline to users that are specifically interested in your content. Lifestyle Content. There are a lot more content types that could be pointed out, too many to cover here.

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Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live?

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Whether it is individual releases or your entire newsroom, hosting on PitchEngine means that the content is not on your site, so your domain loses the SEO benefit of the links pointing to that content. The contest was hosted on YouTube, and therefore the videos lived on YouTube. However there is also a downside.