In digital marketing, social media platforms pose a big challenge with their IP bans on multiple accounts. Find out how to face the challenge here.

With more businesses moving online and more clients preferring to shop online, digital marketing is a must for any brand that wants to grow and become successful.

With 3.6 billion people using social media platforms worldwide, it’s no wonder that social media marketing forms a critical part of an effective digital strategy. However, marketers face definite challenges when using social media platforms. One of these is the dreaded IP ban.

Nobody wants to get a notification from a social media platform informing you that your IP has been banned, but it’s a reality many digital marketers and agencies face.

In this article, we’ll be covering the following topics regarding the challenges of IP bans that plague digital marketers: 

●      Challenges facing digital marketers

●      The solution: social media proxies

●      The benefits of using social media proxies

Challenges facing digital marketing

The dreaded IP ban is one of the biggest challenges facing digital marketers looking to use social media platforms.

Most social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook have limits on the number of accounts that can be created from the same IP address. The limit is usually five, as it’s supposed to allow the members in a single household to create and manage their accounts from the same IP address.

If more than five accounts are created or managed from the same IP address, it won’t be long until you receive a notification stating that your IP has been banned.

You can imagine that if you run a business that relies on your social media presence, then an IP ban is less than ideal and can have severe ramifications for your business.

Another way that accounts can receive an IP ban is when your chosen marketing agency is located in another state or country.

Suppose the platform sees actions happening on the account from multiple locations. In that case, they could suspect that the account has been hacked, and you’ll receive the notorious notification that your IP has been banned.

So, what do you do if you’re a digital marketer that has to handle dozens, if not hundreds, of different accounts?

The solution: social media proxies

Proxies have long been a way for users to protect themselves online as they add an extra layer of security and hide your IP address.

For this reason, they soon became critical for anyone who has to create and manage multiple social media accounts. They’ve come so far that specialised social media proxies are now available.

Instagram proxies

Instagram proxies are some of the most popular as Instagram is notorious for dealing out IP bans quickly and not reversing them.

These are residential proxies which means that the IP addresses included in this pool are all linked to real devices and ISPs, making them undetectable.

These are also virgin proxies, meaning that these IPs have never been used to create accounts on Instagram, so you don’t have to fear an IP ban as long as you remember to limit the accounts to four new accounts per IP.

YouTube proxies

YouTube proxies also fall under social media platforms, but they work differently than Instagram, Facebook, and other social media proxies.

Using a YouTube proxy still hides your IP address, but for a different reason than avoiding an IP ban. In this case, it allows the user to avoid any content restriction and watch all the videos available on YouTube, including videos blocked in their country.

Other proxies

Instagram and YouTube aren’t the only social media platforms with specialszed proxies. You can also get proxies for Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok proxies.

This means marketers can get proxies for all the different platforms, and rest assured that they can safely create and manage these accounts without an IP ban.

Benefits of using proxies

Aside from being able to manage multiple accounts on social media, these specialised proxies also provide other benefits. Here are some more benefits of using social media proxies:

●      Reducing the load time of social media platforms

●      Hide your IP address

●      Filter unwanted content or websites

●      Build your followers by creating a presence on the platform

●      Improve brand awareness

●      Lessens the risk of multiple accounts being banned

●      Can effectively scale marketing operations

Final thoughts

Digital marketing comes with its own set of challenges, and none are more frustrating than receiving an IP ban on social media accounts. Receiving this ban can have a detrimental effect on the business’s revenue, sales, and reputation.

As such, it’s critical for marketers and agencies to find a way they can manage multiple accounts without risking an IP ban. Although not a perfect solution, using social media proxies is the best way to manage multiple accounts across social media platforms.

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At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, heads will turn at a new May-December romance: TikTok, which is 6 years old, has hooked up with the venerable fest, now celebrating its 75th anniversary.

How is it that Cannes — which, in years past, notoriously banned social-media posting from its famous red-carpeted steps — is now welcoming TikTok as one of its elite sponsors? For the festival, the partnership is aimed at pulling Cannes forward into the 21st century, lending it a sheen of techno-hipness and ideally attracting younger film fans. For TikTok, which boasts more than 1 billion monthly users worldwide, pairing with the Cannes Film Festival is an effort to show filmmakers that the app is more than just a place for teenagers to lip-sync to the latest viral dance craze.

According to Cannes Film Festival head Thierry Frémaux, the TikTok collab is part of the fest’s desire to diversify its audience. “We’re looking forward to sharing the most exciting and inspiring moments from the festival and seeing the festival reimagined through the lens of TikTok creators and its community,” he says.

The 2022 Cannes Film Festival, set to run May 17-28, will provide TikTok users with exclusive livestreaming content from red carpets, as well as backstage moments and interviews with talent. It will all be presented through the official @festivaldecannes account on TikTok.

In addition, the partners created #TikTokShortFilm, a global competition inviting both established filmmakers and emerging creators to submit super-short original videos of between 30 seconds and three minutes. Winners in three categories, selected by a jury, will be awarded a cash prize and a trip to the Festival. The Grand Prix winner is receiving €10,000 ($10,500), and the winners for script and editing will get €5,000 ($5,250).

“The festival is a completely iconic event, and they’ve never had a digital platform partner,” says Rich Waterworth, general manager of TikTok Europe. “We’re really honored to be part of it. It’s a great moment for TikTok.”
Still, there would seem to be a disconnect between the worlds of auteur cinema and TikTok — owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance — where the maximum video length is 10 minutes (after only recently expanding from a max of three minutes).

Where does the Venn diagram intersect, exactly? Waterworth, a former YouTube marketing exec based out of London, argues that there is indeed a strong connection between the Cannes Film Festival and TikTok. Both are dedicated to providing platforms for authentic, creative expression by passionate storytellers, he says. And there’s a large film community already on TikTok, dubbed “#filmtok,” with cinema-related content on the app garnering more than 4 billion views to date.

“It was a very natural conversation” to partner with Cannes, says Waterworth. “It reinforces the commitment we’ve had to creativity, and to the creative industries on — and off — TikTok.”

Waterworth continues, “There’s a community of very talented filmmakers who are using TikTok as a canvas for storytelling.” He calls out two popular creators, @romanlolo and @americanbaron, who have gained followings for their original short-form films on the app.

TikTok has increasingly been working with movie studios and other film festivals on partnerships. The Cannes Film Festival deal, under which TikTok is paying for its sponsorship position, is an extension of that work, according to Waterworth. For example, TikTok teamed with Warner Bros. for the theatrical release of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” in France, featuring stars Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet on the red carpet. It also executed a global campaign with Sony Pictures for “Spider-Man: No Way Home.”

The Cannes-TikTok partnership will also feature a variety of challenges launching during the festival itself. Waterworth says those will be “broad-based,” tied to films premiering at the festival, as well as talent. TikTok also is developing augmented-reality effects for the festival that users will be able to incorporate in their own video clips.

“We’re constantly looking for new ways to stimulate that community on TikTok to be more creative,” says Waterworth.

While TikTok is the first digital-media app to sign on as a Cannes sponsor, the festival has long had promotional partnerships with luxury and lifestyle brands. For example, L’Oréal Paris returns for the 25th consecutive year as a premiere partner, alongside Air France, BMW, Chopard, France Télévisions, Kering and digital-media company Brut.

TikTok, aligning with the format of Cannes’ traditional awards, assembled a diverse and global jury to pick the honorees for the inaugural #TikTokShortFilm program. The international jury was led by Rithy Panh, whose films regularly play Cannes, Berlin and other top fests; alongside Basma Khalifa, the Sudanese multi-disciplinary creative; Camille Ducellier, the artist and filmmaker of “Bachi-Bouzouk”; Angele Diabang, the screenwriter and producer of “Un air de kora”; and Khaby Lame, the Senegalese-born TikToker who is one of the app’s most popular creators, with 137 million followers. The jury was largely assembled by Éric Garandeau, former president of the National Film Board (CNC) in France, who is now head of public affairs for TikTok in France.

TikTok execs, including Waterworth, will be in attendance at the festival and the app’s sponsorship will be promoted throughout the event. TikTok also is running a large-scale marketing campaign across France celebrating the partnership — as well as content related to movies and storytelling — which also will be shared on the app.

“There’s a direct line between the origin of moviemaking and TikTok,” Waterworth says. “The connective tissue is about two things: fandom and creativity…. It comes back to finding ways to stimulate the TikTok community to give them access to the greatest film minds and talent around the world.”

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Introduction

I’d been buying YouTube views for years and intuitively understood the buying process. But I recently took the time to learn about the inner workings of YouTube marketers on how they were doing it, and I was amazed at what I found – it was not as automated as I had anticipated.

This article is a deep dive into the YouTube view buying process, providing an overview of what happens behind the scenes and why your video can sometimes take weeks to appear in YouTube’s search results.

It also includes a step-by-step guide on buying YouTube views, with details of the most common purchase methods and other things that I learned from buying YouTube views in the last years for my own YouTube channels.

The first thing that I learned after trying numerous YouTube view sellers or marketers was that not all views were real. And I am not talking about ANY views, but views that are sold as “real” but, once purchased, they clearly are not. They drop, they come from the weirdest traffic sources, or google support itself will message you saying they removed “fake” views. 

I’ve tried buying so-called “real” views before, and the experience wasn’t always pleasant. I’ve bought subscribers, and I’ve bought Likes. I thought buying views would be similar – I’d buy a bunch and expect them to do the trick and never have views. But it turns out that buying views is much more complex than that. Maybe because views counting is the main metric on YouTube, and the platform has a strong detection method on those? Could be.

Anyway, buying views was not just giving and taking – I needed to be much more careful. 

This was a much bigger shock than I expected. I had always heard that views were a commodity and that it was easy to buy YouTube views, so I didn’t think that a view could be fake. I didn’t even think about the possibility it could be if labeled and sold as “real”, until I ran into a situation where I was trying to buy views, and the views I received were clearly fake.

How can a view be fake? They are provided by automated bots or background programs that trick YouTube into thinking that the video has been viewed. However, YouTube’s algorithm is much more complex and intelligent. It may say that your video has gained thousands of views, but these views will not help you with ranking unless they are organic or natural. 

After doing some research, I learned that it was possible to buy real views, although most marketers sold fake views. I wanted to learn more about how they did it and how I could avoid falling into the same trap.

The following guidelines can help you and are the nectar of my years of research. Let’s go one by one based on my experience, so that you can avoid my mistakes in the future.

• Check the vendor’s Customer Service.

Quick note: this does not necessarily mean that the views are real or fake, but I noticed that non-existent customer supports also often sell fake views.

So, the primary factor to check here is the response time of the Customer support. You must be dealing with a service which responds to your problems instantly. 

This is measured in seconds. Similarly, the best customer service will respond in a timely manner. You must deal with a service which answers your problems in-time, because buying YouTube views can get tricky at times. 

Suppose the customer service of the view sellers or marketers is prolonged or does not respond ASAP, then it is not a good sign, and the service must be avoided. But a great is not the only thing that you must check. 

• See if You can Find Real Reviews

Reviews are the primary motivators for most buyers. Unfortunately, sellers tend to write fake reviews for themselves, which may misguide you into believing they are legit and provide excellent service. You must never read the reviews on their official sources from where you are buying views (basically, on their own website). This is because it is extremely likely the reviews are not legit, as it’s the website itself to have control over moderation of the reviews and their content. (not always the case but being careful doesn’t hurt).

Finally, find genuine reviews and look for other threads, articles and platforms where the service is discussed such as TrustPilot. Just write the name of the service along with the word ‘reviews’. 

Pro tip: Negative reviews are the best way to get a glance of a business. Find the bad reviews. If they are a considerable amount, then it’s a big red flag.

• Read carefully the description

There is a difference between a product that simply has a short title such as “Real YouTube Views”, and one that takes the time to explain why they are real, where they come from, and what you can expect. 

Avoid services which don’t go into detail, as probably their reviews are not real but they include that word in their label, to have more sales and have them to be in line with YouTube’s Terms Of Service. (Which as a reminder, they do NOT allow fake engagement).

For instance, you can see an example of this from LenosTube (the seller I am using the most at this moment for real views); in of their real views products, they carefully explain how the views are sent and you can double-check the claims later in your YouTube studio.

Views are not the only online YouTube attention you can buy from YouTube marketing companies. I’ve purchased and received engagements like Comments, Subscribers, Watch time and Shares, that seem like they would have been much more helpful in improving my videos’ popularity. 

However, I’ve also discovered other ways to buy YouTube views that are even more impactful than just buying views on videos with a large audience. 

For example, I’ve found that you can buy more YouTube engagement than just views on videos with a large audience targeted, in comparison to niche specific videos. This can significantly impact your video’s popularity and help you gain more attention from people already interested in your topic. 

Lastly, there are some services with powerful social media presences. It is highly recommended that you buy ‘Shares’ from them. They will share your videos on their platforms, and people will rush towards your content if it is interesting enough. 

We talked about buying real views, but before we finish this, I want to give an extra advice – which is not related to buying views but still, to growing a channel – and which I learnt the hard way. 

My honest advice to you guys is that please don’t use clickbait. Don’t mislead your audience through wrong title, captions and of course, thumbnails. Furthermore, I am saying this because it can hurt your videos more than you can imagine. Because for two reasons, which I tell you now.

First reason, is that it brings you ‘dislikes’ which are like the ultimate rank killers on YouTube since the latest updates. And secondly, users will end up finding a video which is very different to what they expected and therefore, they will quit the video quickly and this will really hurt your watch time analytics.

Buying YouTube views is easy but buying ‘Real’ YouTube views is hard. I hope this text piece will help you find the right services for your YouTube needs. Happy YouTube Marketing!

 

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Video blogger Bethany Mota is worth $7 million in the United States. Macbarbie07 is Mota’s YouTube channel, where she showcases her fashion purchases and provides tutorials on how to style your hair and make-up. In 2009, Bethany launched her YouTube channel, which now has 9.6 million subscribers.

In 2014, Mota released the single “Need You Right Now,” which peaked at #30 on the Danish top 40 (Tracklisting) chart. In 2013, she launched a line of clothing, accessories, and perfume at Aéropostale.

In 2014, Bethany and Derek Hough competed in “Dancing with the Stars,” where they came in fourth place. In 2017, Mota released the book “Make Your Mind Up: My Guide to Finding Your Own Style, Life, and Motivation!” She has also gone on “Motavatours” to meet her fans and has signed autographs. In 2017, Mota was included in Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30: Art & Style” list.

Early life

A girl named Bethany Noel Mota was born on November 7th, 1996, to parents Tony and Tammy Mota in the state of California, United States of America. The majority of her education was completed at home rather than in a traditional school setting; however, she did go to a public school from third to sixth grade. She took acting and dancing classes in high school. Brittany, her older sister, grew up with them in California, where they both had a happy childhood.

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Career

After creating her YouTube channel in 2009, Bethany Mota, like many other typical teenage girls, began posting haul videos in June of that year, which quickly made her an internet sensation. She was approached by a number of companies to feature their products as YouTube marketing became more popular.

She was dubbed the “passionate woman with an ambivalent personality” by Business Insider back in 2009. To further promote her YouTube channel and increase her fan base, she begins awarding prizes to those who promote her videos. Additionally, she has her own YouTube channel, where she posts videos about her interests.

After launching a fashion line at Aeropostale in December 2013, she collaborated with Forever 21 and J.C. Penney to launch a clothing and perfume collection. Profits and margins for the collection have risen significantly, according to Forbes in June 2014.

However, Need You Right Now, which she released with music producer Jim Tompkins on October 13, 2014, and which did not make the Billboard top 100, was included in the Danish top 40 lists.

Relationship

Dominic Sandoval is Bethany’s boyfriend. Her boyfriend, known online as D-Trix, is a professional dancer and a member of the Quest Crew, which won America’s Best Dance Crew competition. Since then, the two have been dating. Bethany posted a picture of the two of them writing on the occasion of their third anniversary.

Net Worth

As a result of bullying, Bethany decided to start her own YouTube channel in 2009, which led to her becoming a successful video blogger. Bethany’s YouTube channel quickly grew in subscribers, and her popularity grew as well.

In the wake of this, she vowed to continue making videos and expressing her thoughts. As a result of this activity, Mota’s fortune has grown significantly, and she now has a global fan base, including her own, that aids in the promotion of her videos.

Soon after her initial success, Bethany received invitations to work with such companies as “Forever 21” and “JCPenney”. In 2013 Bethany created her own clothing line, and this had a huge impact on the growth of Mota’s net worth.

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Further along in her very varied career, she embarked on a tour called the “Motavatour”, across the US in January 2014, simply to meet and talk to fans, and in March of the same year hosted the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards for Entertainment Tonight.

“Need You Right Now” was Bethany’s first solo single, and it was a big success, so there’s a good chance she’ll release more singles in the future. On top of all of that, Mota was a regular on hit reality shows like “Project Runway” and “Dancing with the Stars” in 2014, where she danced with pro-Derek Hough. Because of these appearances, Bethany’s wealth and fame have grown.

Bethany hasn’t been linked romantically yet, according to gossip about her private life. Mota recently became a brand ambassador for UNICEF Kid Power as a Kid Power Champion in her philanthropic endeavors.

 

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