Create a Series

One way to get more subscribers is to create a series. If you create a video that’s ‘Part 1’, this will make people more likely to want to stick around for Part 2. Essentially, you’re ending on a cliff hanger and this ensures people won’t want to miss what comes next. Often that will be enough to convince someone to subscribe even if they wouldn’t have otherwise.

Some channels are pretty much entirely made of a single ‘series’. Cinema Sins for instance is a very popular YouTube channel that is best known for the ‘Everything Wrong With…’ series. This series simply dissects popular films and points out the flaws and plot holes. And this encourages subscriptions because a) people want to know what will be looked at next and b) people know what they can expect from future videos.

Of course your content may not lend itself naturally to a series format. In this case, you can simply make sure to talk about what’s ‘upcoming’ at the end of your videos. Discuss the most exciting content that you have yet to come and tell your audience why they really should consider signing up.

At the same time, make sure that you are being as consistent as possible with your content. That means having a consistent quality but also being consistent in topic and tone. If someone watches one video you’ve made about fitness but the next one is about computer games, they likely won’t want to stay subscribed because a lot of your content won’t be relevant to them.