Originally Posted by
Wells Fargo
I've done both and had more success without the promotional video. ruthless was the one he did for me but back then prices were fair enough IMO. A logo to me is different because it is used much more, imagine trying to make a promo video without a logo or do much of anything without one. Also you don't need a $200 logo for a successful server as many have already proven, you can get a really nice logo made for under $100 and you can be successful by simply making your own. Where I found success is with popular active youtubers, other than that there wasn't anything that was drastically bringing in players.
With that being said my statement was made from my own experience, if someone else found success with the method you said then great. I however did not and found more success by simply hiring a popular active youtuber to make videos on the server. This also means they actually log into your server and interact with the community which I found players enjoyed. To your point of saying of I will play Ikov tomorrow, either way they will be uploading videos for other servers to the very same audience so I don't see that being a great point. Sounds more like another reason to save that money to buy out a youtuber completely or to buy a series of videos of which would be agreed to be uploaded one after the other.
This kind of stuff is great marketing for many other businesses and is used more like an AD, if you're able to make this promo into an ad that pop up on people while watching youtube then that may make this a lot more useful IMO. If you take a look at how big businesses sponsor youtubers for advertisement it's never in this form and I feel like for good reason.