I invite people to subscribe to my YouTube channel every time I upload a new video, but
what does it mean to subscribe on YouTube? Here are some questions that I often get asked.
How do I subscribe? Where can I find the channels that I've subscribed to? Where do I see notifications
of new content? How do I know where people are subscribing from? Stay tuned to the end
of the video to get the answers to these questions. When you subscribe to a channel it means that
you're interested in that content and want to be notified of new uploads from that channel
owner. Here's how to subscribe to a new channel from your iPhone. Tap YouTube app. Search
for the channel or video you wish to subscribe to. Here is my channel, so if I wish to subscribe
to this channel I just tap subscribe. Now if you want to see notifications, I'll
tap the bell notification icon. Notifications are off, so I tap it. Tap allow notifications.
Now if I go back to the channel, tap bell I've got three options. If I tap all, then
I receive notifications for all uploads. If I tap personalized I'll receive notification
for some uploads and live streams. This is based on my watch history and how often I
watch videos from that channel. None means I don't receive any notifications from this
channel. I highly recommend selecting all, so you can receive all notifications from
the channel. You can also subscribe from watching a video.
For instance, if I'm watching this video, I can just tap subscribe. Tap the bell icon,
then I can select all, personalized or none and that's how you subscribe from the iPhone.
The settings are very similar for your Android phone. I'll place instructions for Android
in the description below this video. By the way, if you're getting value from this content
so far, hit the subscribe button and click the bell notification icon so you'll be notified
of new uploads like this every week. Tap the YouTube app. Go down to the bottom
of your screen. At the bottom of the screen you got notifications so just tap notifications.
Now I can view all the comments for my channel. If you want to see your notifications on your
desktop make sure you're logged in to YouTube channel. Then go to youtube.com and click
on the bell notifications icon and see my latest comments. I can also see more notifications.
Here's a heads up, you'll no longer receive email notifications for channels you've subscribed
to. You'll still get notified on your mobile phone via the YouTube app, on your desktop
via the Chrome browser if you have notifications turned on. If you haven't turned on notifications
for your channel, you can turn these on in notification settings. Click the link in the
card to learn more about these notification settings.
Tap the YouTube app. Tap subscriptions. Now you can see all the channels that you've subscribed
to. Make sure you're logged into your YouTube account or Gmail account before you subscribe
to another channel. You can also subscribed to a channel by watching one of its videos.
Here's how to check your subscriptions from you desktop computer. Click subscriptions
on your left hand column. Now you'll see all the channels you've subscribed to.
Here's how to view the most recent subscribers to YouTube channel. Log in to YouTube channel
and go to YouTube studio. Under recent subscribers click see all. I can see their channel, the
date they subscribed, subscribe account and action. You can select last 90 days, last
28 days, last seven days or lifetime. Keep in mind this only includes people who have
made their subscriptions public. Subscription source refers to where people
are subscribing from on your YouTube channel. To check your subscriber sources log in to
YouTube channel. Click the profile icon. Click on YouTube studio. Click analytics. Click
see more. If you click on subscription status, you'll see that most people viewing my videos
are non subscribed. 95.6% of the people viewing my videos are non subscribers.
Later on I'm going to talk about seven ways to attract more subscribers to YouTube channel.
Keep watching to the end. 4.4% of my viewers are subscribed. If I click on subscription
source, I can see all the pages where my subscribers are coming from. Also shows the total subscribers,
the subscribers gained and subscribers lost. As you can see most of my subscribers come
from my YouTube watch page. These are subscriptions from the subscribe button on the video watch
pages. Secondly is my YouTube channel. These are subscriptions from the subscribe button
on my channel page. Thirdly is interactive features. These are
subscriptions from interactive features on videos such as end screens, branding watermarks
or annotations. Fourthly it's YouTube search. These are subscriptions from search results
based on these queries. Fifth is from external. These are subscriptions from videos or subscribe
buttons embedded on websites other than YouTube. If I click on external I can see that most
of these come from Google. Smaller number comes from Bing, Yahoo search, Search my way
and ask.com. Now you know where the view where most of your subscribers are coming from.
Let me ask you a question, which source on your YouTube channel attracts the most subscribers?
Put your answer in the comments below. I'd love to read them and I'm sure others would
too. Here are some tips on how to attract more
subscribers. Number one, invite viewers to subscribe in your YouTube video. Instead of
just telling them to subscribe, give them a strong reason why they should subscribe
to your channel. Number two, research the correct keywords. If you find keywords that
have a good search volume and low competition, then you have a good chance of ranking for
that particular keyword phrase. If you rank on the first page of YouTube,
you'll attract more views and subscribers to YouTube channel. Number three, add a channel
trailer. Your channel banner and channel trailer is the first thing people see when they visit
your channel homepage. Create a short channel trailer that outlines the benefits of subscribing
to YouTube channel. Number four, add a subscribe watermark to all the videos across your channel.
The subscribe watermark appears at the bottom right hand corner of each video on your channel.
Click the link in the description to watch my video on how to create a subscribe watermark
on YouTube. Number five, add a subscribe link on your
YouTube description. Add a subscribe link in the first three lines of your YouTube description
so people can see it while they're watching your video. Number six, pin a subscribe link
to the top of your comments. When viewers go to leave a comment under your video, they'll
see the subscribe link and be motivated to subscribe to your channel.
Number seven, add a subscribe link to your channel banner. You can do this from the about
page. Let me show you how it's done. Make sure you're logged into YouTube channel. Click
customize channel. Click the about link. On your about page, I highly recommend describing
what your channel is about so people will be inclined to subscribe to your channel.
You can change the description by just hovering over the description and clicking on the pencil
icon. When you're finished, just click done. If you want to add a subscribe link to your
channel banner, just click the pencil icon, click add, put your link title in there, a
maximum of 30 characters, and your link URL to the right. I've done it already here where
I've added subscribe to the left. Then I've put my special subscribe link to the right.
Just keep in mind you can only overlay five custom links on your YouTube channel banner.
When you're finished, just click done. Now you can see that there's five links overlaid
on my channel banner. If I hover over the red icon, it says subscribe. If I click on
it, I get the pop up subscribe box, which says, 'Confirm Channel Subscription'. Are
you sure you want to subscribe to Drost video? Then all the person has to do is click the
subscribe link. But Herman, how can I make a special YouTube
subscribe link so I can add it to my website? No worries, just watch my next video on how
to make a YouTube subscribe link. A pop up subscribe box will appear when they click
on the link and they'll immediately be subscribed to your channel. Thanks for watching and we'll
see you in the next video.