- Yeah, YouTube has finally flipped the switch
on abbreviated sub counts, leaving us
tantalizingly close to 400,000 subscribers.
We're actually on this exact figure right now,
and if you want that for your YouTube channel
on any YouTube page, keep watching.
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- Hello everybody, I'm Rob, and welcome back to vidIQ,
the YouTube tool and channel that educates you
on your YouTube journey, and this particular video
gives you 100% accurate subscriber counts.
Oh yes.
If you've been literally living
in a cave for the last three months with no 4G signal,
let's quickly take stock of what's happened.
It does not matter if you are on a search page,
a channel page, a video watch page, or on the mobile app,
as a viewer you will no longer see a fully disclosed
subscriber count for YouTube channels.
Instead you will see this abbreviated number,
which will round down to the nearest figure
depending on the size of the channel.
For channels over 10 million subscribers,
like MrBeast, it's every 100,000 subscribers
it abbreviates to.
For channels over 100,000 subscribers, it's every thousand,
hence the reason we currently sit on 399,000 subscribers.
Damn you YouTube.
But if you want to know exactly how many more
subscribers we got since we started recording this video,
it's over here.
Now we're not here to discuss the how's and the why's,
and what a terrible idea this is.
You can watch all of that in detail on this video over here.
Unless YouTube decides to change their minds,
you're gonna be stuck with abbreviated sub counts
for the channels you follow and subscribe to.
But if you are new to vidIQ we can give you a tool
that will give you accurate subscriber counts,
no matter where you are on YouTube and it is 100% free.
Right now if you want to find out
the exact subscriber count on your channel
you have to go to your creator studio analytics,
and on the dashboard you'll get the figure you are after.
But, let's be honest.
This is a clunky, time consuming step
just to check your sub count, isn't it?
So what we've done is taken that figure
and put it in the top right hand corner of the page.
Oh, and we're not just talking about
the creator studio page.
We mean the YouTube search page, channel page, video page.
Wherever you are on YouTube you can see
your subscriber count for your channel.
We call this the real time stats bar,
and it shows you more than just your subs.
It can show you your channels views per hour,
views over the last 48 hours,
watch time over the last seven days,
and if you mouse over the figures,
you can drill into the data even further.
It will even track your journey to monetization,
showing you how many hours of watch time you have
over the last 12 months as you work towards 4,000 hours.
Once you hit that magical number,
your figures will turn green.
And all of this comes from just one
free tool that vidIQ has to offer,
that represents the tip of the iceberg.
We've got tools that will help you research YouTube,
find the right key words for your videos,
analyze every single video
on the platform to minute detail,
offer you 24/7 channel audit service that will
give you actual steps that will help grow your channel.
vidIQ is free to download.
There is a link in the video description.
So while YouTube has hidden exact subscriber counts
for all channels, that shouldn't make it more difficult
to find out your exact subscriber count, should it?
And lets be clear about this.
Exact subscriber counts over 1,000 subscribers
are now at privates to the channel owner,
and we are only sharing your data with you.
This is not publicly displayed anywhere,
so you can use it as you please
and be safe in the knowledge that we're not
sharing it with anybody else.
If you want to watch the last channel we were
able to track hitting 100 million subscribers,
before subscriber counts were abbreviated,
that was Pewdiepie, watch the video over here.
And if you want to learn more about vidIQ
we've got the beginners guide down there.
Thank you so much for watching,
and enjoy the rest of your video making day.
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And just one more thing folks.
We could not have done all of this without all of you.
Thank you.