Forging Bonds: Strategic Partnerships with Brands on YouTube
One perk of being a influencer is getting work with your favorite brand on your social media. But before you can get what you want in the brand you are sighting you need to work hard, build an audience and of courses you need to invest and impress the brands.
The reason why brand looking creator to promote their products is because the company can leverage the audience of the creator not just on YouTube but also on other social media platforms and the video content won’t look like an advertisement. If you are a beginner, you won’t get brand sponsorship or collaboration deals frequently. So, you need to reach out to brands on your own.
Social media influencers have turned brand partnership into an artform and since influencers have significant pull with their audience, smart companies are looking for opportunities to collaborate with content creators on YouTube.
In other words, branded content is a big deal. It adds professionalism to the Youtuber’s channel, draws interest to the company and generates revenue for both parties.
If you’re new to brand content or maybe are still hunting for your first partnership then this all might seem too good to be true. By the end if this article, you’ll know what steps you can take to create your own path to successful partnership.
Collaboration is an integral part of the youtuber community and it is via this joint exposure that both parties have the opportunity to grow their audience at a impressive rate “collabs” as they are more commonly known.
Big brand often leverages the power of a celebrity figure or ambassador to deliver their marketing message. YouTube creators on the other hand have ready built audience who are engaged with the platform, and the huge influence of the creator over their follower.
Tips on how to have a Brand Collab
Build an audience or Subscribers
Brand research
Contact Brand
Create a nice video presentation
Never Reach out brand that you don’t believe in
Build an audience or Subscribers
Of course, before you can make a deal with the brand for collaboration you need to build your YouTube channel and you have a lot of subscribers, because of course so as not to be embarrassed to approach the brand for collab. As you know collaboration is also a business it’s a win-win process. Brand looking for content creator with huge number of subscribers to collaborate, for them to be able to advertise their brand with a low cost. Same as content creator they need brand to collaborate for them to make their channel known to Ohers, because brand often post the creators video on their pages and brand sometimes offer a payment for the content creator to make a video about their products.
It is important to have your own research about the brand, you should also focus on smaller and niche brands to start a collaboration. A product that your audience would love to used,
Always check out the brands website, find out interesting stuff about the brand and always check if that brand is what your audience will love to watch.
Remember you also need to think the welfare of you audience, whether this brand you have chosen is something that you audience will watch or this maybe the brand that your audience want.