Collaborating with creators for YouTube Growth — Adetutu Laditan // YouTube

Adetutu Laditan, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa at YouTube, explores YouTube monetization and growth. In marketing today, trust holds immense value, and creators have become beacons of trust, influencing consumer brand perceptions. Collaborating with creators on YouTube offers brands a way to authentically connect with audiences, scale messaging, and drive conversions.Today, Adetutu discusses collaborating with creators for YouTube growth.
About the speaker

Adetutu Laditan

YouTube

 - YouTube

Adetutu is Senior Product Marketing Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa at YouTube

Show Notes

  • 02:27
    Collaborating with YouTube creators for marketing growth
    Creative collaborations allow brands to authentically connect with an audience, scale their messaging, and drive conversions. Choose creators with significant reach and credibility among your audience, and communicate campaign objectives and brand guidelines for successful collaborations.
  • 04:57
    Evaluating creator credibility and engagement
    Using tools for sentiment analysis, you can check how well the creator resonates with their audience and the authenticity of their followers. Over time, evaluate community interactions, feedback, video engagement, and their other social platforms to determine a creator's influence.
  • 06:58
    How to engage with creators for brand promotion and advertising
    Ensure the collaboration is a fit for yours and the creators brands. This enables creators to authentically integrate your products into their videos, showcasing the products attributes and driving conversion opportunities.
  • 09:18
    Creator collaborations vs. YouTube advertising
    Creator collaborations leverage the trust and influence of recognizable creators within their communities, providing a less sales-oriented message. Then, brands can allocate marketing budgets to amplifying their creator content for broader reach and impact.
  • 10:51
    Working with creators and promoting creator content
    Promote creator content through all the YouTube advertising features and consider the five second principle concerning YouTube ads. In collaborations, marketers should provide guidelines but allow creators creative freedom to maintain authenticity with their audience.

Quotes

  • "As a brand, you talk about yourself a lot. But having a trusted, influential creator talk about how great you are, and how fantastic your product is, is better mileage than you talking about it." - Adetutu Laditan

  • "When it comes to collaboration with creators, we as marketers must let them have their own style, but give them our guidelines. Let them have their own creative license to help you collaborate and land the message." - Adetutu Laditan

  • "Marketers are now realizing there's a huge opportunity for creative collaboration, if you want to connect with an audience authentically, scale your messaging, and drive conversions." - Adetutu Laditan

  • "Find a creator that has reach, even if it's not millions of followers. They need to have a substantial amount of reach so you can analyze the percentage of conversions and engagements expected." - Adetutu Laditan

  • "When approaching a creator for collaboration, ensure its brand fit for you both. Get them excited about your products and your brand so they can talk about it in a way that excites their community." - Nataly Kelly

About the speaker

Adetutu Laditan

YouTube

 - YouTube

Adetutu is Senior Product Marketing Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa at YouTube

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