Youtube subscribes....why are people so selective?

I rely on the subscriptions feed and what to watch so much and I hate being someones dead subscriber, if I wont watch something at least fairly consistently it is rare that I subscribe, when I find I aint watching their videos I tend to unsubscribe. I used to subscribe to anyone where I just enjoyed one of their videos but I have changed.[DOUBLEPOST=1410334381][/DOUBLEPOST]
markkaz said:
Almost all of us are creators. This place is more for us to learn together rather than looking for customers.

Check the view-count of this topic. It hasn't even crossed 300 views. It would be better for you to go after the millions of YouTube viewers rather than the relatively small number of people here.
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It just doesnt make sense to me creators solely promoting to creators, sure some people here will watch every so often or click a signature video but YTtalk is never going to hand an audience to anyone on a plate. Just like any other site though it can help a little. I couldnt agree more and your thoughts about YTtalk is something I am glad people have :)
 
I don't know if this always happens but when I made a new YouTube channel a while back, it gave me suggested channels to subscribe to; All those channels were big YouTubers. No wonder that most subscription boxes on YouTube look the same lol
 
chottom said:
Just to add - similar to shoutouts are collabs (collaboration with other channel with similar to your content). If the colab. channel turns out to be much bigger than yours you have both colab and shoutout in one - the best of two worlds! :)
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I have done a collaboration video in the past, and at the time it was a video that was watched more than any of my other ones. Now, nearly half a year later, we're doing another one. And I bet that that one again becomes one of my better watched videos since we've both grown since then, and he is still about twice as big as me. ~1000subs to ~500subs for me.
 
TheDutchTexan said:
I have done a collaboration video in the past, and at the time it was a video that was watched more than any of my other ones. Now, nearly half a year later, we're doing another one. And I bet that that one again becomes one of my better watched videos since we've both grown since then, and he is still about twice as big as me. ~1000subs to ~500subs for me.
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Believe it or not we have our first ever collaboration video scheduled to be released on 15th this mouth. It was done together with much bigger than our channel (2.5 times bigger). Our domains are overlapping (Japan, Japan culture, Japan vlogging) so I am excited to see what will happened!

But yes in general good collaborations seems to be one of the best way to increase your subscribers number!
 
I don't think people are selective, they just subscribe to channels that videos they watch and would like to watch in the future. There are many channels that have only one good video or stop posting videos. Then I don't see the reason to subscribe to them :)

If you will upload on regular basis quality content sooner or later you will get subs that like your content and are hungry for more :)
 
I am selective too and I tend to avoid most of the super large (Pewdiepie) or super popular (Markiplier) simply because quantity doesn't always mean quality. 90% or more of my subscriptions are under 50,000 subs or less with just a few with over 1mil subs (Boogie2988, Vsauce, Angry Joe)
 
I don't sub to Pewdiepie even though I sometimes watch him, because he uploads too often. It like spams the sub feed and because he's so popular, he gets priority so I just had to unsub.

I sub to my real life Youtube friends to watch them and see what they've been upto, but other than that I'm just not big on subbing. There is only one Youtuber who I'm subbed to and watch a lot, but she's my favourite and she's very original.

I guess I'm more a creator than a watcher?
I dunno...

Quite often when I've lost subs its because I havent uploaded regularly... and on "closed accounts" but yeah.

I do worry that I'm not original enough to build subs/views as Youtube is now so oversatured and now caters to the bigger channels as they can make more revenue from them...
 
susans said:
I'm new to having a youtube channel. I notice that a lot of people are very selective when subscribing to a channel. Why is that?
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To be more effecient with your time, it makes more sense to subscribe to channels that you are more likely to want to watch again. I had over 700 subscriptions when YouTube added the ability to group them into collections. I don't want to make the time to sort them all so I'm at the point that I really need a reason to subscribe to a channel. Mild interest isn't enough.
 
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