- So, you wanna know how to buy subscribers
to help grow your YouTube channel?
Well, it's pretty simple.
You don't, you idiot!
- [Narrator 1] vidIQ
- [Narrator 2] vidIQ
- [Narrator 3] vidIQ.com
(synth music)
- Harsh words, but fair words.
Hello everybody I'm Rob and welcome back to vidIQ.
Educating you on your YouTube journey
and in this case click-baiting
you all into watching this video.
But trust me, if you've been thinking
about buying subscribers to grow your YouTube channel,
this is gonna save you a lot of pain.
Because put simply, you don't want to do it.
And this is the main reason why.
These are YouTube's Terms of Service.
You probably haven't read them,
and that wouldn't surprise me
because nobody ever reads them.
Especially when they are this long.
But if you have intentions of buying subscribers,
then you may want to read
Permissions and Restrictions section six.
Which states that you are not allowed to do the following.
"Cause or encourage any inaccurate measurements
of genuine user engagement with the Service,
including by paying people or providing them
with incentives to increase a video's views,
likes or dislikes, or to increase a channel's subscribers,
or otherwise manipulate metrics."
So it doesn't matter whether you bought your subscribers
from this website, this service, that platform.
And no matter how much they tell you
these subscribers are legitimate,
and will watch your content,
ultimately, you have paid somebody
to try and artificially grow your channel,
and to manipulate YouTube's metrics.
And that is against Terms of Service.
And the buck stops there.
YouTube are the gatekeepers,
and if they find out what you've been doing,
then your channel will most likely
be suspended or terminated.
Now let's say for argument's sake
that you do buy some subscribers
and YouTube doesn't take down your channel.
What are you actually gonna get
from those subscribers you paid for?
Well it's kind of similar to sub4sub,
which is a little bit like this.
Hey YouTuber.
Hey.
Fancy being sub4sub?
Absolutely.
Great.
(both sighing)
♪ Hello darkness my old friend ♪
Exactly.
You got a sub, what happens next,
usually absolutely nothing.
And I'm actually quite proud of our little skit.
If you wanna watch the full video on sub4subs,
then do check out the card
in the top right-hand corner right now.
And while we are on the subject of sub4sub,
I hope that it won't come as a surprise to you
to learn that this practice also falls
under the fake engagement policy.
Buying subscribers, sub4sub,
you know it's wrong, don't do it.
Now let's put on my hypothetical hat for a second.
I really don't suit baseball caps.
There's something weird goes on with my ears.
Let's say you were on the other side of a fence,
and somebody paid you to subscribe to a channel,
and maybe watch a video.
Once you've done what you were paid to do,
you're under no obligation to watch any more
of their content or to stay subscribed to their channel.
You didn't choose to watch their content in the first place,
there was a financial incentive.
That's not really the relationship
you want with your audience, is it?
It's not a recipe for success.
Now, granted, that was hypothetical.
But you know what I'm talking about, right?
Nobody said YouTube was easy,
and buying subscribers and indeed views makes it impossible,
because your channel will be terminated.
This is all blood, sweat, tears,
and hopefully at the end of it, some success.
But the important thing is, you need to do it organically.
So no, this isn't a video on how to buy YouTube subscribers.
This is a video on educating you
why you shouldn't buy YouTube subscribers.
And we hope you found it valuable.
If you did, you may be on the cusp
of subscribing to our channel.
And if this little graphic down here
helps push you over the edge,
which is allowed by YouTube, then go ahead.
And that's how you get subscribers the right way.
Hopefully.
You did subscribe, right?
Cheers.
Now I know some of you at the back of the room
are probably shouting at the top of your lungs,
you've just told us not to buy subscribers,
and yet you sell a YouTube tool
that feels like a hack to me.
Well let's address that point.
Well first of all,
the vidIQ software is certified by YouTube,
and that means we have to go through compliancy checks
every year or two to make sure
that our software isn't doing anything that it shouldn't.
We follow Terms of Service on YouTube.
And put simply, we are not a hack piece of software.
There isn't a magic button in vidIQ
that gives you more views and more subscribers.
What we do is signpost your journey.
Point you in the right direction.
Whether that be through researching YouTube,
finding the right keywords
to better serve your videos to the right audience,
analyzing every single video on the platform
to find out what's working for your competitors
or what's successful for a particular channel,
and how you can potentially follow that success.
Auditing your own channel,
going through all of those YouTube analytics
and bringing the important ones
to the surface with single clicks,
and suggesting actions that will help fix problems
on your channel and help you grow quicker.
Not necessarily help you grow by hacks,
but by helping you grow organically.
vidIQ is free to download.
There is a link in the video description.
Make sure to check it out.
Now as we're on the topic of growing subscribers,
there is one more gray area to take a look at.
Giveaways.
Can you encourage people to subscribe
to your channel during a giveaway?
You are allowed to hold a giveaway contest on YouTube,
but there are lots of rules surrounding them.
I'll leave a link to this page in the video description,
but the section we want to look at is here.
And it says, "You and any third party
may not manipulate metrics on the YouTube service,
including numbers of views, likes, dislikes, or subscribers,
such that those metrics fail to reflect
genuine user engagement with the YouTube service."
I also spotted this tweet from Team YouTube that says,
"Giveaways are still allowed!
What we don't allow is linking to sites
that solely aim to drive up subscriptions
or other engagement metrics like views or likes
through external contests and other means.
Since that's the case with this site,
it violates our external links policy."
And what YouTube were talking about here was Gleam.
This service helps users manage competitions
by giving entrants multiple ways of entering a contest,
such as following the user on Twitter,
or subscribing to their YouTube channel,
watching a video.
But unfortunately, YouTube doesn't want you
to do any of that anymore,
because it manipulates their metrics.
So again, our advice would be to not use giveaways
on YouTube that encourage the viewer
to subscribe to a channel to enter the contest.
If you wanna learn more YouTube stuff just like this,
then check out the playlist over here.
Or if you want to learn more about vidIQ,
and how it can help you grow your channel
and get more subscribers organically,
we have the beginner's guide down there.
Enjoy the rest of your video making day,
we'll see you again soon.