Does asking viewers to subscribe actually matter?

*shrug* I guess I'm just defining my target audience as people who know where the subscribe button is and will use it if they want. I might use subtle cards/annotations but saying it out loud doesn't flow with my video.
 
I think it helps, for me I feel like it shouldn't be predictable considering that people will see it coming and know that's the end of the video and move on. My call to action is really predicable and something I need to work on. Being creative with it would really help I think.
 
It does make a difference, people can just be forgetful and not think about it. Mostly if their just running through a playlist of different videos. Just try not to seem rude about it, and don't push it too much.

Commitment consistency bias is best way I think to ask for subscribers. Create a enjoyable experience (the content), affirm the experience at the end of the video, (ex: did you enjoy watching this review?), in their head they should say yes, now you have them already commited through a simple question, then follow it up with with (ex: well, im glad you enjoyed! make sure to subscribe so I can continue to provide you more great reviews such as this one for your enjoyment). Theres definitely several other ways.

ex: its like a marketer saying, "yo you want to make more money?" and clearly you would say yes. Then the marketer would say "well heres a program for you to make more money." u dont want to do the program but in your head you already kind of made a commitment to wanting to make more money to this marketer. so it makes it hard to decline. "well didn't you say you wanted to make more money? -marketer

If you say it a end of a video, it shouldn't interfere at all with any of the content so I don't see the issue. You can really do it whenever you could even make little small pop-ups reminding people to subscribe. theres endless ways.
 
Yeah, like others already said, I'd imagine that it'd be a helpful reminder. I find it annoying, so I don't do it, but it's probably beneficial.
 
on the one video where I did mention it I didn't see any difference so I'm just going to leave it as a visual thing in the credits rather than my voice
 
Well more than clearly saying that I leave an annotation in the final part of the video that people can click for subscribing (along with the spotlight annotation in the end card) and I rarely say that loudly. I don't know if that can help, but maybe it can if done correctly: you need to act cool while doing that, and not begging because you could obtain the opposite.
I'm not sure if people are so oblivious that forget to subscribe but I guess they are a thing so we need to remember them from time to time!
 
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