How To Download Youtube Videos

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In the search for effective marketing tools for your web site sales and services, it can be challenging to find ways to keep your content interesting and relevant, and keep customers coming back. An easy way to stay current is by incorporating YouTube videos in your content, either producing the videos yourself or finding relevant content on YouTube’s site and planting them in your pages. The popularity of YouTube videos is enormous, and adding a YouTube video to your site can help drive traffic to your site, helping increase sales and interest in your products or services. Normally, viewers will go directly to YouTube’s site and stream the video directly to their computers. You can circumvent their site and share videos directly with potential customers and targeted audiences by simply incorporating video into your site.

While it’s easy to find pertinent content on YouTube’s website simply by entering your search criteria in a Google search box along with the words “YouTube Video” (there are literally thousands and thousands ...
... of videos available about everything under the sun), you’ll need to know how to download the videos. You can’t directly download videos from YouTube, but the site’s working on technology to enable just that. In the meantime, there are a huge number of widgets and toolbars available that enable simple moves from YouTube’s site to your hard drive. You will need to look for a program that enables downloading of YouTube videos, searching for one that meets your specific needs. If you’re going to download the video for inclusion into your website, for instance, you’ll need a program that enables the video links to be converted into html language that your site design software can interpret and upload successfully.

Look for freeware or shareware options to allow you to download video content. There are services and software that will perform the services for a fee, but you don’t have to pay if you don’t want to. For instance, most versions of RealPlayer allow you to download YouTube videos straight from the source page. You might look for sites that allow you to rip the videos, like KeepVid.com or SaveVid.com. Once you’ve downloaded the videos, you simply copy and paste the video URL in the space provided and click “Download”. You then have the options of what format you’d like, and how you’d like to share the video.

You might not even be looking to make website content more interesting. For personal use, you may find that you simply want to save a video to watch yourself later on your PC, or share through email. There are a number of software programs that will allow download, conversion and paste options for your emails (or to save for yourself), with simple instructions and one-click installation and use. Again, there are free and shareware versions available, so you don’t have to pay to see your favorite videos over and over again. Videos can even be converted into Flash screensavers for your PC or Mac.