Welcome back. We're talking about some YouTube basics today. We're talking about
subscribing. How do you subscribe to YouTube? -So basic. -What does that mean? -We'll, even
tell you how to find out. How many YouTube channels have at least a million subscribers?
Alright, so let's just get things started. Let's not talk in really technical terms because this is
a fairly fundamental video about YouTube. From a user perspective even. So, we're talking
about subscribing to YouTube. What that means? What does that mean to subscribe to a YouTube
channel or to a video? -So, when I create an account on YouTube that's a channel. -You as a provider?
-It's me as a video creator I have a channel and if I make videos and you come along and you want
to watch more of my videos. You hit a little button that says subscribe. In fact, should we show you
let's do it. So, we're here on my channel let's open up yesterday's episode. -Now, so let's say that I'm
on YouTube and I'm searching around and I'm seeing things and so for whatever reason I stumble across
bBe The Hero Nate, Nate Woodbury, Be The Hero, Nate Woodbury right and I land on one of your
videos so now it's playing okay and I like it. -Now, I'm signed into my own channel so that doesn't
work. Let me switch accounts. We'll, go over to Cristy Code Red. -So, this way I can
see what it would look like if it's just me on YouTube. -So now, Cristy let's see if she's just...
Oh, she's not subscribed. -This will work perfectly. -So you come down here and you hit
subscribe. Now notice, this alert I'm not going to turn it on. I would love for people to turn
it on but I wouldn't turn it on on behalf of of Cristy. Because YouTube will send out an
email every time I upload a new episode. So it's a cool feature to have if people want it turn off
it's an alert. -So, the question then becomes. What does subscribed mean? What do I get
for being subscribed to you because to me in my mind as a beginner, I shouldn't have
to hit a bell to get a notification. Subscription should just mean ding Nate Woodbury's new video.
So, what happens with subscribing? -Alright, so let me show you the difference. So, if I just open
up YouTube fresh I haven't gone to any specific channel. This is me logged into my account and
and I get to see you know different channels that I'm potentially subscribed to. Most of these are
channels that I have subscribed or I've watched videos of theirs. Like this is interesting.
I'm subscribed to Casey Neistat but he's only uploaded a couple episodes in the last six months
and it's showing me an episode of his from seven years ago which is pretty interesting.
I am subscribed to yes theory. This one we recently I recently watched a video of his. Let's go
see if I'm actually subscribed to him. You know we just check real quick. No, so I'm not yet subscribed
but it did recommend his video because we were good one of his videos earlier. -Yes, uh-huh.
-The chosen is a channel I'm subscribed to beast reacts I recently subscribed to. So, a lot
of the videos that are shown on the home page are there because you've subscribed. -And this
supposes that I have an account. In other words, to subscribe I can't just go out on a public computer
pull up YouTube, click on subscribe. It's going to say well what's your account? You got to log into
what? Google? -Yeah, Google and Youtube I think it's, all the same. I use the same username
and password. So if you have a Google account you already have a YouTube account. -So, you up here
this little face of you. Is that your YouTube account or is that your Google account?
-It's my Google account. -Okay, but you can go down and open your YouTube studio and switch yeah okay.
So they're all kind of married? -Yeah and another way if I want to look just at my subscriptions
I can click that right there and you'll see. These are a lot of the channels that I... -Interesting I did
not subscribe to this channel. Let's go check it out and maybe your kids... -Maybe we'll
demonstrate. -Dr. Matt O'Dowd. -It says I'm subscribed. So I'm going to go ahead and unsubscribe. -And you
just answered my next question so thank you very much. -I did not know and these videos
have not been shown to me. It must have maybe I hit it by accident or something and you know. -Okay, so I
don't know if you ever answered the question. What is the difference between being subscribed and not
subscribed? What do I get so to speak and then with the little bell notification. Why is that an extra step?
-So, subscribing to different channels helps customize the channel to what you want to watch
and then if you turn on that bell that means that you like this specific channel so
much that anytime they upload a video you want YouTube to email you and notify you. -And that will
more than likely come through my Gmail account because that's all tied in with Google. -Exactly.
-I see, okay. And now that you're unsubscribed from Dr. Matt O'Dowd space-time these probably won't
show up in your recommendations? -Well, I don't think that they have been. I don't, so I must have been
something that I subscribed to a long time ago or something. Now, that I'm unsubscribed and if I
don't watch any more of their videos. Then yeah it will fade away. -So, either you click on the bell and
get notified of a new video or you just have to go search for it yourself? -Yeah, oh and now I
clicked on subscriptions that's why it's showing me everything that I'm subscribed to. I remember I
haven't seen a Chad Prather video for years. I wondered if he was still doing his cowboy
hat videos it looks like he is. But I'm gonna go ahead and unsubscribe from him as well, sorry chad.
-Yeah, you're really cluttering things up with your one video every nine years.
Now, it doesn't cost anything to subscribe? -No, to subscribe to... YouTube is totally free but
there are ads. So, subscribing to a channel that that's a feature within YouTube to choose what
channels you want to see. There's no cost for any of that. If you want to turn off ads you
can pay extra for that and turn off ads. I think it's like 12 bucks a month, I pay for it.
But up here you see premiums. -That's what premium. -That's what premium is but YouTube is free and
you don't have to pay for that and subscribing to a channel has nothing no impact
on price or anything. -So, can you so show us now how to turn that off. How many subscribers are on
my site? I'm embarrassed, I've got five and I've got five kids. So you do this. -It is kind of hard
to find so you hit settings down in the corner. I kind of have to search around for this and then
you go to channel you go to advanced settings and then just scroll down and then right here. Display
the number of people. So, if I didn't want people to know I would uncheck that so I'll obviously leave
it checked. But yeah, you can display or not display how many people are subscribed to your own
channel. -Suffice to say, when you're beginning in YouTube it doesn't hurt to look under the hood
and kick the tires, right? I mean really like explore the different links. -And yeah it
really is awesome what youtube provides. What we can customize our channel and all the
analytics the data it shows us. -Okay, so we promised before we started that we wanted to see if we
could find out how many YouTube channels have at least a million subscribers. Now, how do we do that?
-You go to channelcrawler.com I believe. -So, you're taking us away from YouTube. -Yeah, check this
out. Alright, so you can really do whatever you want. So, if we want a minimum
of 1 million subscribers put that in there as a minimum and I hit search. -It's that simple.
-It takes a while to think. -It doesn't even look like it's thinking.
-It's right there it's thinking. -I couldn't see it with all of your master tabs.
-There must be a lot of channels that have above a million. -Either that or we lost our
internet connection. Okay, so after a brief wait. -It found over a thousand different channels and
you see there this one's got 1.42 million 1.2 3.2. -Let's sort by the most subscribers. Now, that's the
latest video. Let's get the actual subscribers decent descending 174 million subscribers
and I've never even heard of it. Have you? -No, I have not. Looks like it's a
channel from India and then there's PewDiePie which is crazy and then I don't see. -I don't see you.
-Oh, there's Mr. Beast. -Yeah, oh dude perfect is that big? I had no idea their channel
is that big. Like I've seen some of their stuff but I didn't think it was as good as Mr. beast
type stuff. -I'll be done Justin Bieber's in the top really 11. -Does he post, he's got 198 videos. -I don't
I think he could post anything he wants and people will subscribe and watch it. Oh, well. -Alright, what
else are people asking us? -Well, I see I always understand that the real money to be made or the
real power of YouTube is in the number of views of your videos. So, what does it matter if I have
x amount of subscribers. Does that really matter? -It's a good benchmark but it doesn't really
have any exact value. You can have two channels that both have a million subscribers. One could
be making a million dollars a month the other one could be making 100 bucks a month.
It really depends on a lot of other factors like obviously the views are their ads on the channel.
Do you have a lot of engagement do you have a real audience or did you pay for all these subscribers?
So, it can be an inflated number. But in most cases you can kind of look at that number as like how
much work you've put into it or how you know typically the more videos you put out the more
subscribers you get. -And do you find that people really take the time like you did here today to
unsubscribe when they're not happy with what they're seeing or if the person stopped posting
videos. How would you ever really even know? Because it's not going to show up in your recommendations.
So I mean, is it a way that obviously we've seen in the past that you've got somebody who still
has a million subscribers and they don't even post anything anymore. -You know, that would be a
good feature for YouTube to have to say hey you haven't checked out these channels. Do you still
want to say stay subscribed? That would actually be really cool. Because no like if I don't
watch videos from a channel for a while it will I guess obviously I still stay subscribed to them.
But I don't see any more videos from... -We saw that here it was a dumb question forget I even asked.