Best Organic Ways to Increase YouTube Subscribers

Jatin Kalra
4 min readJan 16, 2021

Are you a youtube content creator?

Do you also want to increase the subscribers for your channel?

Here’s a guide for the best ways to get organic subscribers.

Youtube is an online video sharing platform where you can find content on literally every topic ranging from finance to ‘how-to’ videos. You are just a search away from your query. According to Statista, 2019 there are 2 billion active users of youtube worldwide. Content of more than 500 hours is posted on Youtube every minute, and Youtube is expected to raise an annual revenue of more than US$15 billion. With such a big audience pool, Youtube is a great way to earn revenue by posting your content. But earning doesn’t start automatically and from the beginning. You need a good subscriber base and minimum watch time for getting the ads on your channel to earn revenue from them. Youtube being the second largest search engine, a Youtuber has to deal with an immense level of competition. This guide provides the best organic ways to increase your Youtube subscribers.

1. Go for quality over quantity

It’s the tried and tested notion that you must go for quality over quantity. A video with a high-quality content backed up with research gets much more engagement to your channel than four mediocre videos with mediocre content. Think before you plan your content.

2. Consistency is the key.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is even harder. You have to be consistent and regular with your content. Regular good content channels grow more quickly and have a higher retaining time. Dedicate yourself to your channel and be consistent with it.

3. Eye-catchy thumbnails and interesting video titles

The first impressions to your video are your titles and thumbnails. Invest your time in creating custom thumbnails for your videos rather than using the same thumbnail every time. Give your titles that sound interesting which make people wanting to see them.

4. Appropriate description

This is one of the first things a viewer sees in a video, making this as one of the biggest impression which goes a long way in creating the engagement you desire. It should include info about the video, links of equipment required and some basic details about you. Make sure to keep it short and crisp so that the viewer doesn't get amused by the tediousness of it.

5. Interact with your audience

Try to interact with your audience. Answer their comments, give them a heart, give them shoutouts, follow them on social media. This seems like a small measure but goes a long way in creating hype for your channel as your subscribers may advise the channel to their friends based on your content and your interactions.

6. Host your best video as the trailer to your channel

The trailer is the first introduction or video you see once you search a channel. Your best video as the trailer may provide the required attention towards the channel.

7. Make some Intimation of your next video

Create a hype at the end of your video regarding your next video so that the target audience can subscribe so that they don’t miss it. This is a great way to increase engagement and focusses more eye-balls.

8. Make a QnA video or ‘Behind-the-scenes’ video

This is also a type of interaction as QnA videos makes the audience feel that they have been held answerable. This paves a nice impression on the existing audience. A piece of odd advice would be to add some bloopers once in a while to one of your videos to provide an insight to your work ethics to your audience plus it may be funny them as well.

9. Organise Giveaways and invite Guest Youtubers

This is a step which is capable of catching the eyes of a large crowd. Giveaways arouse the public attention a lot quicker than you would be able to do on your own. Another good step would be by collaborating with guest YouTubers with significant audiences. This could be a big initiative in catching a bigger audience.

10. Longevity and Persistence

This might seem as irrelevant in increasing the number of subscribers your channel has but you got to believe that your content is good and valuable. You have to be persistent in your approach. Youtube as a platform for beginners can be quite difficult to cope up with due to its high competitiveness. But that’s when success tastes sweeter. Have belief in you and your content and just keep working and improvising on it.

These are some tips for increasing your subscribers organically. Plus don’t forget to edit your videos superbly, with the tools out there. There’s much more than this to increase youtube subscribers. It all depends on your practices, efforts and your content.

Keep learning, experimenting and importantly keep posting good content.

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Jatin Kalra
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