How to Get Subscribers on YouTube Fast – 9 Ways

Free Ways

Let’s start with methods that do not require you to spend any money, but only creativity and time.  Yes, what you will definitely have to stock up on is time. If that’s what you don’t have, then you shouldn’t even start right away. Using the options described below will give you the opportunity to get the first subscribers and to gain invaluable experience, which will come in handy later.

Traffic flow

YouTube is more of a visual social network, with absolutely no focus on live communication. Maintaining other social networks will allow you to better understand the interests of your viewers and communicate directly with them, not just through dry statistics. Just tell about your channel on other platforms, leave a link, make a post, and invite subscribers to your YouTube channel. You can also arrange, for example, a poll to see if a particular video came in or not.

Previews in social networks

This tool on Instagram is very often used by musicians and bloggers. On their pages, they post something like a trailer for their YouTube video. Naturally, they announce the release date of the video. Thanks to such an announcement, the video gains views and users are more likely to subscribe to the channel.

Communication

Besides the standard phrase at the end “subscribe and like”, ask viewers questions inside the video, like “What do you think (question about the topic of the video)”, followed by “Write your opinion in the comments”. And by the way, the number of comments directly affects the relevance of the video in search. That’s why the more viewers are engaged, the more popular the video will be and the more subscribers it will have.

When saying goodbye, don’t forget to tell your viewers that there’s a cool new video coming out soon and it’s worth subscribing to so you don’t miss it.

Hashtag

We think everyone learned the rules a long time ago, you can’t post anything online without hashtags. This is a tool that you can use to raise the video in the search results, and therefore gain subscribers on YouTube. Choose the most popular and relevant to the topic of the videos and the channel hashtags, look at 5-10 quality channels of your competitors and select the appropriate for you.

Paid Ways

Now let’s talk about paid ways to get subscribers on youtube. Yes, you will have to splurge on them to some extent, but they also, or even more effectively bring new subscribers to your YouTube channel. There is an alternative options, you can use the following paid advertisement methods:

Advertising

As with any platform, there are different types of advertising on youtube. And they may not necessarily be in video format. I’ll tell you about all kinds and formats, and then you can choose what suits you best and how to make advertising on YouTube more effective for you or your company.

Lifehack – Keep a hand on the pulse and quickly work out the negative comments and encourage positive ones. This is easy to do with the mention monitoring service. By the way, you can search for them using keywords or the name of the channel.

Embedded advertising

You start watching a YouTube video and you are immediately shown an ad to grab your attention from the first seconds. After 5 seconds, you’re given a choice – either continue watching or click “Skip Ads”. This is the beauty for the advertiser, as the money is deducted only after the client will watch more than 31 seconds of the ad (ie, the first 30 seconds are completely free).

If the duration of your video is less than 30 seconds, the charge for viewing occurs if the user has watched the clip to the end. Therefore, this type of advertising in YouTube videos is called CPV or Cost Per View – pay per view.

If your ads are 15-20 seconds long, you can make them scroll through in their entirety, without the “Skip Ads” button appears.

Embedded ads are also divided into 3 types, which you’ve definitely seen when you work with YouTube:

• Pre-rolls – ads that are played before the beginning of the video you choose;
• Mid-rolls – ads that are played in the middle of your chosen video;
• Post-rolls – ads that play at the end of your chosen video.

We advise to start with preroll, and then to test. Clients will see the ads in the beginning, but not all the way to the middle, much less to the end.

Banners

YouTube has its own banners, they can be two options, and now we’ll look at each.

Option 1: Banners located in the upper right corner, in front of the video, which is recommended for you. Externally, this banner looks almost the same as the recommended videos. That is, if you do not look closely, you can not understand that this is advertising. In fact, promoting your video is almost one of the best options because of its effectiveness. That is, people watch similar videos and will naturally click on yours if it interests them (here, of course, much depends on the title and image).

Option 2. Banners that pop up at the bottom of the screen while watching the video. It usually appears on the 15th second of viewing and the user can close it by clicking on the cross in the upper right corner.

Such a banner, unlike the first one, can lead the viewer both to your video and directly to the sales site.

Advertising in Google Adwords

Google Adwords is a kind of contextual advertising. In short, the idea is that your potential customer enters a certain request and your offer appears in search results marked “Advertisement” in addition to the usual results. Read more about Google Adwords and contextual advertising in our articles.

In all of the above direct advertising methods, it is difficult to predict the audience flow because it depends on the following indicators:

• The quality of the video, banner, or ad;
• The selected parameters of the target audience;
• Budget;
• The period of time in which the ad is shown;
• The duration of the advertisement.

Hence the conclusion that there is no formula for correct advertising. You need to test different types, tools and the result will definitely come.

Advertising from bloggers

The big plus of such advertising is that it is native, that is, it is imperceptibly embedded in the plot of the video. And at the expense of this is able to cause audience loyalty, and all because the blogger acts as an opinion leader. Before you run to find a blogger for advertising, decide on the type that is right for you:

1. The blogger mentions a service/product that he himself uses. For example, during a story, he reaches for and orders a pizza through the advertised food delivery app. He also shares a unique discount promo code with subscribers and talks about the benefits;
2. This is also a type of ad embedded in a commercial. However, there is an important difference. This type of advertising the blogger does not make independently, the customer sends it in advance, and the blogger just inserts it into the video;
3. The blogger tells almost the entire video about his experience with the product/service. Keep in mind, it’s unlikely that the blogger will agree to blatantly lie about the benefits or hide the flaws of the product. But on the other hand, if the product is really cool – you will get a sincere positive review and recommendation.

For advertising with bloggers on Instagram, two formats are suitable: a preview or announcement of a video or a review of an already released video. Only unlike on YouTube, you don’t have to do a long review with details. It’s enough to say that the blogger came across a cool video that he advises everyone to watch. In addition to YouTube itself, you can get advertising from bloggers on Instagram in the same exchanges.

Another way to get subscribers on YouTube is to promote your channel in Tic Toc. Here it’s better to use the format of the preview and integration of advertising – dance to the openers of your video. If you have entertaining content, and there are a lot of funny statements in the released videos, then try to make a trend in tick-tock and add a piece of the record to the audio.

For advertising with bloggers on Instagram, two formats are suitable: a preview or announcement of a video or a review of an already released video. Only unlike on YouTube, you don’t have to do a long review with details. It’s enough to say that the blogger came across a cool video that he advises everyone to watch. In addition to YouTube itself, you can get advertising from bloggers on Instagram in the same exchanges.

Another way to get subscribers on YouTube is to promote your channel in Tic Toc. Here it’s better to use the format of the preview and integration of advertising – dance to the openers of your video. If you have entertaining content, and there are a lot of funny statements in the released videos, then try to make a trend in tick-tock and add a piece of the record to the audio.

To avoid wasting money, start by asking the blogger for stats. Analyze the activity over the past 3-4 days, see if your target audience is right for you, and also check the blogger through third-party services for scamming, for example.

Pranks

Great for raising audience engagement, increasing the number of subscribers, and at the same time moving the video to the top. Pranks on YouTube are different from pranks on other social networks. They come in the following types:

1. When a subscriber has to do something, like write the best comment or come up with a title for the next video, and then the best one gets some prize;
2. Either to find some ciphered hints in the video or to be the first to notice something. In this case, the one who wrote the right comment gets a prize.

TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT

YouTube has long ceased to be just a platform where everyone publishes videos, now it’s a whole world in which many people are very well earning. Therefore, in order to earn there, and even more to gain popularity is not enough to make mediocre content.