Are you one of those people who have just one subscriber? If you are, then I’m sure you wish that you could get tons of more subscribers to your YouTube channel. There aren’t any secret formulas for making it large on YouTube; however there are several tricks to get more & more subscribers on your YouTube channel to get it noticed and thereby hike up the chance of having large audiences for the YouTube channel.
1. A Sub for a sub.
Go to any random channel & subscribe. Seek channels that interest you and then go ahead & comment on this person’s channel, you could also send them a message. Next, you will have to ask them for a sub for a sub (i.e. subscribing to someone’s channel and having them subscribe to yours).
2. Become a friend
Make efforts to increase your number of friends on YouTube. The easiest way is to look for people on your friends list & then start commenting on their channels, view their friends’ channels, start conversations with them & build a network. You never know, these friends of friends could soon subscribe to your channel.
3. Add Relatives & friends
Add all your real life buddies & your relatives who happen to have accounts on YouTube. It’s easier to convince people you know closely to subscribe to your YouTube channel!
4. Watch, Comment & then Rate
These are very important steps. Whenever you watch videos, make sure that you leave behind nice comments or you rate the video. There will be times when you do not like a video at all, & you will want to leave behind a really nasty comment. DO NOT allow yourself to leave behind any negative comments. Instead, you could be polite & maybe write down constructive criticism, without having to demean the person. The best way to do that is by writing down something like; “That’s a good effort, except maybe for the next one, you could try doing ______”
5. Try & advertise your YouTube channel!
Every time you come across videos that in some way are related to the videos on your channel, you could leave behind a comment saying; “That’s a funny video! You know what- It’s somewhat like a video on my channel….check it out!
6. Customize Your Channel
Yes, YouTube allows you to customize and add extra elements to your channel to make it more attractive than the default one. You can even make it look like your blog/website, like as if it is embedded in your blog. You can check Digital Inspiration’s YouTube Channel below.
7. Use the subscribe button
If you own a blog or website, or maybe even a Facebook page, you can use this iFrame code to embed an easy subscription button for your YouTube channel. Replace ‘username’ with your own username.
<iframe src=”http://www.youtube.com/subscribe_widget?p=username”
style=”overflow: hidden; height: 60px; width: 300px; border: 0;”
scrolling=”no” frameBorder=”0″>
</iframe>
The subscribe button will look like this :
8. Keep updating your channel
So make new videos. You could maybe upload new stuff every week, once people notice that you offer a variety of things that interest them, they’ll be more than willing to subscribe to your channel.
9. Use Promotion Services on YouTube
There are numerous companies which will endorse your videos & channel on a dozen websites, moreover guarantee results! No doubt, these services will charge you, but it’s also a quicker way to grab the much-needed attention to hype & popularize your YouTube channel!
10. Funny videos always attract people!
Who doesn’t like a laugh!? So having funny videos & updating them will help you get new subscribers who might even share your channel with their relatives plus friends!
11. Write about YouTube
If you have a blog, you can write articles regarding YouTube and encourage your readers to subscribe to your channel at the end. You can also embed the videos on your blog and increase the views.
Simple Tips In A Nutshell
- Write catchy titles for your videos.
- Ask questions in the video to get comments from people.
- Choose entrancing center images for videos on your channel to draw the attention of viewers.
- In the videos, you must remind the viewers to subscribe to your YouTube channel.
- Try & Add a dash of your personality to the videos.
- Stay connected to your viewers.
- Promote your latest video & channel on Facebook & Twitter.
- Have good audio & video quality.
- Publicize all your previous videos in the current videos with annotations.
Really great article. One good method that helps out is creating Playlists! If a title of a playlist is worded just right, it will show up in the Google search.
Thanks for the information,
Emilio
Commenting on others videos, Adding funny videos in between increases number of subscribers.
Effective way for promotion.
Actually, You tube will be more attractive and you can add more channels to attract the readers side on here. It will be interesting tasks on here. Great work on here 🙂
It's very like Twitter massfollowing idea.
I am not much with youtube, now thinking of go active and collect some subscribers.
It is true. Having a online network of friends can always be used to generate audience to your blog/ YouTube channel etc. However, to retain them it is necessary to make your blog/YouTube channel attractive.
good formula.
Sharing Mutual Connection and ideas will help lot in getting more subscribers as well as popularity..
That's a lot of thing to do. While watching YouTube videos, I've learned something that will make you more subscribers naturally. Sexy videos and Funny videos often have lots of subscribers. I guess we can incorporate this in our marketing videos?
Yes Stephen, Catchy titles (or like you said, sexy titles) have more appeal to the viewers. 🙂
Yes, Stephen, that'll work well. 🙂
Having trusted pool of friends is really helpful for your online marketing campaign, and same applies to Youtube. Very interesting article though. 🙂
Really interesting article, I haven't promoted any video as yet but it always seems very tough to me, but really this article is so helpful and gives your confidence. Great work!!
subscribe badge is really very nice.keep sharing mate 🙂
Awesome work author…………!!