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How a gamer is gaming YouTube to become the top channel

Posted on June 19, 2014 by brasscount Posted in adversarial gamification, gamification of performance, gamification of results, strategy .

Full disclosure, I am not a fan of YouTube as a medium for intellectual growth. My children, on the other hand, find deep meaning in watching game videos that they find humorous, engaging, and that I find to be crude representations of teenage idiocy (you kids get off my lawn!)

But I always find a measure of brilliance in anyone who can figure out how to game a system in order to optimize their results. Enter PewDiePie…

So a young swedish guy plays video games on Youtube, does and says ridiculous things and becomes the number one Youtube Channel… Sounds like a hack, in the classical sense of the term, right?

The Game Theorists YouTube channel did a remarkably astute summary of how to use Youtube’s algorithm’s to create a cycle of new views, explaining PewDiePie’s success. You can watch it here:

http://youtu.be/EgMqhEMhVV8

Interesting way to drive engagement. Too bad I can’t go back and video marathon gaming sessions from the late eighties and early nineties to capture crude juvenile humor and make YouTube video stars out of my own group of geeks…

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Tags: Game Video, marketing strategy, PewDiePie, YouTube .

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