YouTube Search Stories - Tell Your Story in 35 Seconds

Recently YouTube debuted a video creation tool called Search Stories. The idea is that every search tells a story. It's super simple to use and outputs a 35 second video - with sound track - that tells your story via Google search results.

You input up to 7 search terms. You then select whether results are from all Web pages, images, blogs, Google maps, news, products or books. A screen shot of what will show in the video is provided so you can decide if the search tells the right story.This works the best if you have a lot of search results on your name, business name, and lots of images posted around the web and of course they need to be tagged appropriately so they come up in your search queries.

Next step is to add a music track, then click a button and the video is generated and you can load it to YouTube and share with the world.

Inspired by Mari Smith, I played around with Search Stories and created two: one for the Radiant Success Event I'm co-hosting with four colleagues in Raleigh, NC, and a total ego video created by searches on my name and blogs. It's fun and if you're creative, you can develop a great search story about your company, products, services and events.

Here's the Denise Wakeman vanity video... ;-)

What's your search story? How would you feature your business, blog or products?

Create a YouTube search story and then post the link to your video here in the comments. I'd love to see what you come up with and give you a visibility boost by giving your video a thumbs up or making it a favorite or commenting.

Related:
A Quick Lesson in How to Create Online Visibility with Video

My video channel: DeniseWakeman.tv

Comments

[Lauren McMullen]

Hi Denise,

I did a vanity video as well. Here is my link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCo4sgC2NHk

What fun.

Lauren

[Sharon Hill]

Hi Denise,

You always find the best things to help us be visible!

This was fast and fun to create.

Here is a link to my video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ovBtAaHsmg

Thanks,

Sharon Hill

[Denise Wakeman]

Nice job, Lauren. Love to see how visible you are ... blog on!

[Denise Wakeman]

Great video, Sharon. You're a video machine - loved seeing how many you have created...I see you everywhere! ;-)

[Connie Ragen Green]

Denise,

This is TOO much fun! Thanks for sharing. I see so many possibilities with this. Here's mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1sc_daaeU4

Connie

[Ellen Britt, PA, Ed.D.]

Thanks so much for introducing me to this Denise! Love the video you did for our Radiant Success Event.

Here's one I did for myself and Marketing Qi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEyBU9tEWq0

Ellen

[Sharon Hill]

Hi Denise,

Thanks - you saying you see me everywhere means a lot.

I'm just following your Online Visibility Secrets!

Sharon

[Steve Hilliar]

I am most concerned there appears to be only one real niche these days.
That niche seems to be Internet Marketing. I notice none of the gurus out there ever reveal anything else.

Is there money to be made in anything OTHER than how to get rich on line?

[Lauren McMullen]

Thanks Denise,
I am excited to meet you this weekend at the Radiant Success Event. You are one of my heros!

[Johnathan Hayes]

I really enjoyed reading your post and look forward to future information from your blog. I hope to see you succeed and grow your business to an incredible operation.

Talk Soon,

Johnathan Hayes