3 Simple Ways to Increase YouTube Subscribers
With Periscope, Live Stories (Snapchat), and Facebook Live, who’s still creating content for YouTube? Nike, Mattel, and some of the most successful brands, that’s who!
If you are discounting YouTube, thinking its days of glory are long over, consider this:
- YouTube has over a billion users—that’s almost a third of people on the Internet.
- Hundreds of millions of hours are spent on YouTube generating billions of views, every single day.
- The number of people watching YouTube per day is up by 40 percent in the last two years.
- The number of channels earning six figures per year on YouTube is up by 50 percent.
There is still a lot of life in YouTube. If you are thinking of taking it easy on this platform in favor of shiny new channels, you might want to reconsider.
“But I have been at it for years, and I am not really seeing results!” I hear you cry out. As apparent from the statistics above, the reason you are not seeing results is not YouTube’s fault at all. Read on—here are three simple tricks to increase your YouTube views and subscribers.
1. Technical Tactics for YouTube Success
Did you know that your video thumbnail image could be the real culprit behind your dwindling numbers? Or that unchecking and checking a button could be the ultimate answer to your problem?
There are many small but significant steps you need to take to ensure your YouTube content gets the attention it deserves. Take the thumbnail image, for instance. In the split second’s time when viewers have to decide which video they will watch, your thumbnail image might be the ultimate game changer. This a very small but important point to remember every time you upload a new video.
Similarly, there are many small steps you can take to increase the number of subscribers for your channel. For instance, end cards with a large Subscribe button can subtly motivate your viewer to subscribe to your channel.
Allowing embedding can also mean more exposure, which could eventually lead to more subscribers. There are a host of actionable advanced tips to gain YouTube Subscribers that don’t take much of your time but can significantly affect your subscriber count and engagement. Make all these changes, and you will see your subscriber count go north.
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