Greetings,

A few days ago I posted a video I developed via powerdirector 9 onto youtube. In doing this, I included several tags to correlate to my video on a traditional youtube search. Moreover, I used a song from a well known band, and so the title of my video, which appears to people on the youtube results page, is the title of the song from that band. Is this a wise strategy ? I included tags of the band's name, as well as tags that relate to the topic of the video.

So, I have barely received any views over the past few days, which I am aware is quite common for starting up a video on the site. I read some info on sites about how to effectively promote your video to others. But, I am wondering if there is a tactic I can utilize that doesn't take an excessive degree of work (although that is probably the best methodology, for anything). I have posted a video response on the official music video of that song, which has about 220,000 views. Before this, I tried posting it to a video of the band that had 15 million views, and only 1 other video response. But, after choosing to post my vid as a vid response, my video did not show up on that page.

If any of you can provide some advice as to how I might receive more views that you have found works quite well, I would really appreciate it. Lastly, I've read that longer videos get less viewcounts; my video is 4.5 minutes, but there is nothing I can do about that since I've finished my video and trimming it would render the project useless.

Anyhow, thanks in advance.