Premier Guitar surpasses 9 million views on YouTube channel

Sept. 23, 2010 - PRLog -- Premier Guitar, the ultimate multimedia destination for more than 650,000 guitarists around the world every month now boasts more than 9 million views on its YouTube channel. With over 1,000 videos of gear demonstrations, product reviews and artist interviews as of September 23, 2010, Premier Guitar offers an unparalleled scale of breadth and depth of video content.  

Most viewed Premier Guitar videos:
Digitech RP 500 (112,745 views):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww1trvGSlSE



Fender Super-Sonic Amp Demo by Greg Koch at GearFest (111,501 views):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqWvw9QmxsQ

“We feel that this is indicative of our constantly-growing online presence,” says Joe Coffey, Editorial Director for Premier Guitar. “This is a testament to our continuing commitment to delivering free multimedia content to guitarists, whenever, however and through whatever platforms they prefer.”

Premier Guitar continues to experience explosive growth in traffic to its multimedia platforms (print magazine, digital magazine, website, iPhone app, and mobile-optimized website) and now features the largest monthly multimedia audience among all guitar media totaling more than 650,000 every month. All magazine content is freely accessible via Premier Guitar’s various digital properties, which also feature a variety of web-exclusive and video content. This multimedia model allows Premier Guitar to reach multitudes of guitarists all around the world and lets the reader determine how he/she would prefer to consume the content.

Premier Guitar YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/premierguitar.

“With the growing importance of delivering valuable video content in this hyper-digital era, it’s important that we continue to be the standard bearer for guitar media in this and other electronic channels,” says Nick Ireland, marketing manager for Premier Guitar. “Clearly, there is a high demand for video content and we intend to keep satisfying that demand with a host of new and innovative digital video initiatives.”

About Premier Guitar:
Offering guitarists a multimedia source for news, gear info and education/instruction, PG is the media home for players who are serious about their tone. PG's gear-centric print magazine has a monthly circulation of 32,000 complemented by the industry's only complete, freely accessible online magazine (http://digital.premierguitar.com) that attracts more than 32,000 monthly visits; a Web site (www.premierguitar.com) that's the fastest-growing portal in the guitar industry with an average of more than 600,000 unique visitors consuming almost 10 million page views per month; and the market's leading interactive gear search service that attracts more than 200,000 monthly visitors. With nearly 60,000 pieces of gear, players can find, buy and sell gear on Gear Search (http://www.premierguitar.com/gear/gear_search.aspx). Published by Premier Media Holdings, LLC, Premier Guitar is employee-owned and based in Marion, Iowa with offices throughout the U.S.
For more information, contact Nick Ireland, marketing manager for Premier Guitar, at (319) 447-5550 or nick@premierguitar.com or visit www.premierguitar.com.

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Premier Guitar offers guitarists a multimedia source for news, gear info and education/instruction, PG is the media home for players who are serious about their tone.