Julie Trainer, a TEDx speaker, explains why hosting a watch party on Zoom after your talk drops can boost views and engagement. A spontaneous group viewing she organized early on gave her talk an algorithmic boost on YouTube. Watch parties turn your talk into a shared event instead of something people watch alone.
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Foreign. Speakers. My name is Julie Trainor. I did my TEDx in November of 2024 about finding the hidden gifts of loss. And so my question for you is, you've done your TEDx, so now what? And what I would like to invite you to consider doing is having a TEDx watch party. What is that, you may ask? Well, it's a really fun my people party that we have on Zoo, and we invite people. Now, here's the really fun thing about how mine happened. I had two of them, actually. The first one happened organically. I was on a zoom call with a group of my people that knew that I did a TedX. And when you do a TedX, something they don't tell you is that you don't know when it's going to come out. They say, well, it'll be out sometime in the next six weeks. So the whole time you're like, oh, my God, when's it going to drop? Right? But you really don't know. So you want to be able to promote it right away because that helps the algorithm. The more people that watch it in the first, I think, 48 hours, but you don't know when that's going to be. So it was really cool because when mine dropped, I was in a meeting and I said to my friend Stacy, I'm like, oh, my God. I was like on YouTube. And I just kept checking and checking, and then all of a sudden, bam, there it was, right? So what was so cool about my spontaneous TEDx watch party was that everybody in the Zoom, we all turned on our phones and watched it. So that, like, out of the gate, I got a whole bunch of watches and likes and comments and shares, and it was. I can't even tell you. It's kind of like, you know, you're so nervous the day you do your TedX. But then when you have your TEDX watch party, and I mean, it could be as big as you want, you know, Like I said, mine first one was a spontaneous one in a zoom I was in. But you invite everybody to watch it, and then you all get to watch it together. And then people ask you questions. You can invite other TEDx speakers. You get to tell them what it was like. It's just a really, really cool thing because it's like, you know, you do it and it's. It's such a big deal, you know? But like, for me, when I did mine, it was not in front of a live audience. So we had the little group of eight of us TedX speakers and then you leave and then you just wait. So it's not like it's anticlimactic. It's, it's very climactic. But you're not necessarily in a big group of people when it drops is what I'm saying. You know, depending on who you are and what your situation is. Anyway, so having a TEDx watch party is a fantastic way to celebrate and then to promote it, because it is. You're in this weird limbo waiting for your TEDx to come out, you know, and then it's like, oh, my God, am I gonna like how I look? Am I gonna like how I sounded? Which take did they pick? All that stuff, all the good angst that goes along with the amazing experience of being a TEDx speaker. So I would like to invite you to consider having a TEDx watch party for your TEDx. And we here at do the Thing can help you with that.
