A note beforehand, this is not a tutorial on how to get more subscribers for a new channel, this tutorial implies that you already have a half-decently sized subscriber base of approximately 1000 active individuals. This tells you how to use your existing subscriber base to your advantage to grow even bigger on YouTube.
If you're a content creator, which no doubt you are reading this, then you're probably looking to how you're going to be able to get the most out of your subscriber base. You want to know how many people are watching consistently, and are in tune to most of your uploads. Those are the people you're going to want to target.
Many people hop onto YouTube to see what their favorite creator is going to upload around the time that they are waking up. For many of them, it's the first thing they do in the morning. I know I do. From here, we'll make the example that most of your subscribers live in the New York, EST time zone and wake up around 6am. For those under 18, 6am is a likely time, and for those working 9-5 jobs, it is much the same.
YouTube ranks your videos partially based on its popularity, it's popularity is defined by its total views, watch time, community engagement ratio, total community engagement, driven subscriptions, shares, playlist additions, embeds, and most importantly, view rate. A video with a high view rate from the start (especially when compared to other videos on similar topics) is going to result in a higher placement in search since it is seen as a more popular video.
If you upload a video when the bulk of your subscriber base is sleeping, you'll start off with a lower view rate, which in the big scheme results in a lower result in search over time since you're not getting enough views then and there. If you upload when they're waking up and beginning to get active, you'll have a higher view rate and be seen as a more popular creator to YouTube's algorithms.
From here, you schedule your video for release a (example) 6am EST, to hit that bulk of subscribers, and then you start with the higher view rate. Thus the higher placement in search means more people searching for one of your tags (which need to be optimized nicely, a tip for those little guys reading) are going to see your content before the content of others, making YOU the more likely choice to be clicked first, leading to a higher view rate, more views, and more potential subscribers.
If you're a content creator, which no doubt you are reading this, then you're probably looking to how you're going to be able to get the most out of your subscriber base. You want to know how many people are watching consistently, and are in tune to most of your uploads. Those are the people you're going to want to target.
Many people hop onto YouTube to see what their favorite creator is going to upload around the time that they are waking up. For many of them, it's the first thing they do in the morning. I know I do. From here, we'll make the example that most of your subscribers live in the New York, EST time zone and wake up around 6am. For those under 18, 6am is a likely time, and for those working 9-5 jobs, it is much the same.
YouTube ranks your videos partially based on its popularity, it's popularity is defined by its total views, watch time, community engagement ratio, total community engagement, driven subscriptions, shares, playlist additions, embeds, and most importantly, view rate. A video with a high view rate from the start (especially when compared to other videos on similar topics) is going to result in a higher placement in search since it is seen as a more popular video.
If you upload a video when the bulk of your subscriber base is sleeping, you'll start off with a lower view rate, which in the big scheme results in a lower result in search over time since you're not getting enough views then and there. If you upload when they're waking up and beginning to get active, you'll have a higher view rate and be seen as a more popular creator to YouTube's algorithms.
From here, you schedule your video for release a (example) 6am EST, to hit that bulk of subscribers, and then you start with the higher view rate. Thus the higher placement in search means more people searching for one of your tags (which need to be optimized nicely, a tip for those little guys reading) are going to see your content before the content of others, making YOU the more likely choice to be clicked first, leading to a higher view rate, more views, and more potential subscribers.
