How To Grow Your Youtube Channel with Billy Parisi: Mediavine On Air Episode 25

Mediavine On Air

Thinking about extending your blog brand to YouTube? Billy Parisi, founder of Billy Parisi Media and Visual Culture Inc, joins Jenny Guy, Senior Director of Marketing in a conversation about his firsthand experience in determining what works and what doesn't when it comes to growing your channel. In this episode, Billy shares his top tips for getting started plus helpful inspiration and resources. Don't miss it! Helpful Resources Billy's PresentationBilly's WebsiteBilly's Youtube ChannelBilly's Recipes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvXKB65_zgU Transcript [MUSIC PLAYING] JENNY GUY: Hey. Hello, everybody. Hi. Happy Thursday. It's May 20. And that means it is time for another episode of Teal Talk. Hello. I am your host, Jenny Guy. And believe it or not, it is rapidly approaching Memorial Day weekend and the official start of summer. Does anyone have big plans for next weekend? Does anyone have anything exciting going on? Lake? Cookouts? Tell us about it. Are our summer bods ready more importantly? Do we care about that anymore? Personally I am in camp. So happy that vaccinations are readily available and normal things are slowly beginning to happen again. And that's all that matters to me. So summer bod or not, I'm happy about it. But I did purchase some sunless tanner just to cover my bases. Try to be a little normalcy. That's normal for me. I'm translucent. I did eat at a restaurant the last couple of weeks. Almost cried. Went to the dentist. And it was practically a religious experience. I think the hygienist was freaked out by how happy I was to be at the dental office. But I was just very-- and don't get me wrong. I'm in no way saying that everything is peachy keen and COVID is over. I know that's not true at all. But compared to the wasteland of last summer, it feels pretty nice to have a little more security and a little bit of hope and all of those things. I don't know how you guys are feeling. But if you're just joining us, again it is Thursday, May 20. I am Jenny Guy, the host of Teal Talk. And I would love to hear if you have plans for Memorial Day. And like it or not, the truth is the year is flying buy and with it, potentially many of our goals that we set for ourselves in January. I don't know if you're a January goal setter. But it's almost halfway through the year. And I find no shame here. I congratulate all of us for just surviving. But if one of your goals for 2021 was to grow your YouTube channel or even if you're just a little YouTube curious, today's episode is absolutely for you. We have got Billy Parisi. And he's here to share all his top tips plus a very special offer for anyone who is ready to up their video game. So let's meet Billy. Billy, welcome to Teal Talk. BILLY PARISI: Hey, thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Good to see you. JENNY GUY: Thanks for coming. It's great to see you too. OK, I'm going to read your highly impressive bio so that we can all be highly impressed. Ready? Here we go. Branching out into the digital and social landscape after 15 years as a chef in the culinary industry, Billy Parisi is a true culinary media entrepreneur. His work has been seen on network television, online with unique views in the millions, as well as across new and emerging media channels. His company, Billy Parisi Media and Visual Culture Inc is a boutique digital and social agency specializing in cooking, food and beverage content creation that is proven through experience and analytics. Very impressive, Billy. BILLY PARISI: Thanks, Jen. JENNY GUY: I'm humbled. OK. If you have questions about YouTube, we have some that we were gathering in the group and on the public Facebook page. But if you have questions for Billy or me, drop them in the comments. We will get them filtered. But to start out with, I have a question for you. Everyone out there watching coming in, do you have a favorite YouTube vlogger? And if so,