So here is the question me an answer of the day: The telephonic meeting this morning was with the owner of Broadway World. He contacted me and we discussed making Outside the Box a Broadway World exclusive, i.e. it would not be on You Tube, but exclusively available for viewing on B'way World. They do one other web series that way and it's paid off for that show - they usually get about 25,000 viewers per episode. So, I have to make this decision. There are several factors at play: IF we were to do it, do we start in the middle of season two, or do we wait until season two is done and then they would promote and run the entirety of season one and two and then they'd have the exclusive on season three and onward. The way it works is they promote us, we're on their home page permanently, we got lots of front page releases and we provide content and interviews for our down weeks so we're always doing something for the show. Part of me likes You Tube and the fact that you can tag the videos in any number of interesting ways, but the fact is our most popular episode has under 8,000 views, while all the others are under 3,000 so I'm not sure tagging or being on You Tube is meaningful at all. I'd be able to link to B'way World from our channel page, so our channel subscribers would know where to go.
So, what do you think? Do it? Not do it? Upsides? Downsides? Start in the middle of season two so we can actually get some viewers or wait until season three, which we would definitely have ready to go in April of 2013.
Going by just my gut instinct, I think you're better off staying with YouTube.
People know YouTube. They are not going to have to be directed to another site and deal with their promotions or whatever.
If you were being offered some $ or something beyond promotion, it might be worth considering, but based on what you've said the deal is, why give away exclusivity?
However, I guess I'm pretty much alone with this position.