I have put together a quick tutorial about how to create a kicklight. This video will tell you every step of the kicklight creation process, from uploading a video to grabbing kicks you have created. Once you watch this video and go through the process several times it should become second nature. The Kicklight user interface is fairly straightforward so I hope this video helps you to start putting together kicklights fast and easy.

The actual kicklight compilation process doesn’t take that long, it’s the video production and kick creation that will obviously consume most of your time. I will be producing more videos about various aspects of the Kicklight website. For now this video is without kicks but I will be adding kicks to it. Stay tuned for more videos.

Thanks for visiting and please leave any comments or questions.

Update: This tutorial video now contains kicks and is a full fledged kicklight. This is an example of how a kicks can enhance a video, especially a tutorial.

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Take a video and slap kicks underneath them and you’ve got a kicklight. Kicks are small jpg, gif or png graphics that you create with a graphics program like Photoshop. These kicks are then put together with a video to build a complete video viewing experience. If you are the producer of the video you can now include kicks to enhance the video with additional information and/or images. In addition kicks can have links attached to them which you the video producer will include.

If you upload videos to YouTube you know the only place to put a clickable link is in the description area of the YouTube video page. What are the chances your video viewers will click that link? You would have to bring a lot of eyes to your video for a decent amount of clicks. Now with kicklights viewers will become accustomed to clicking on the kicks, and you can even include directions on the kicks directing viewers to click them.

Just like YouTube kicklights have embed codes for blogs and other websites. This code carries both the video and the kicks, which of course have all the links included within the kicks. Therefore if you have a blog you can include a kicklight for all your viewers to watch and click. As a video watcher you can enjoy the entire kicklight outside of the Kicklight site. When the video is served outside of the Kicklight site the video is a bit smaller, just like YouTube videos.

I don’t think every video will end up having kicks attached to it for a variety of reasons. Some videos just don’t need any additional information, they are much more visual or tell a story without the need of narration or background. Also the added work of creating five, ten or more individual kicks will be a barrier for many people. However, I think a healthy portion of creative and entrepreneurial people will invest the time to create kicklights not just videos.

I hope this article has sufficiently outlined what a kicklight is and that it may have peaked your interest. If so then go forth and make some powerful kicklights. Here is a kicklight I had a lot of fun making, for obvious reasons.

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This kicklight is a perfect example of how a very succesful YouTube content producer could use kicks to dramatically increase their revenue. As of the writing of this post this video has been viewed more than 73,000 times. If kicks had been attached to that video Brandon could potentially make some serious sales.

Let’s say only one percent of viewers had clicked through to the Amazon page (I actually think this is a low click through rate). That would be approxiametely 730 people who are at least interested in knowing more about this movie. Of those 730 if only three percent made a purchase that would be almost 22 sales. While a DVD is not a high ticket item the bottom line is that kicks can drive more visitiors to money pages. Also consider that Brandon has made 97 videos as of this post, with many of his other reenactments receiving hundreds of thousands of views per video. Using my minimal math skills those numbers could add up to some monster sales totals.

I truly believe that people who consistently produce online videos on YouTube and have a large following could benefit greatly with kicks. For now they would have to send visitors over to the Kicklight website.  In the future if Google does purchase Kicklight I’m sure kicks will be integrated into the YouTube site, which will make the entire process smoother for viewers and producers.

Thanks for reading and good luck with your kicks!

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