Revealed: 7 Secrets To Boost Your Youtube Views and Subscriptions in 2019 and beyond

Boosting your Youtube Subscription and views

You've created your videos, uploaded them on your YouTube channel, got your Google AdSense account approved, and of course, monetized your videos.

 Great!

 Mmmhh…

After all the above efforts, your videos have only a few views, no subscription, and to your surprise the only views available are yours. And now you are wondering, is there a miracle to attracting views and subscribers? Do I need to be a celeb to get 1000+ views?

 Relax…

 Here are the unique ideas on boosting YouTube views and subscriptions:

1. Present your message in an educative and entertaining way

If you want to pass information, write it down. To make the recipient understand your message better, use action and images.  A video is a record of a combination of acting activities. Meaning it involves acting. While people love the content communicated in the video, what makes them always to remember it is the way of presentation. So, to win more viewers and subscribers on your YouTube Channel, ensure your message is informative and delivered in an entertaining approach. 

2. Develop a plan for your video

Failure is a product of unplanned actions. To boost YouTube views and subscriptions, you need a strategic plan of preparing the video content. I do not mean writing a thesis on a strategic plan. All I mean is having a laid out procedure of what you will discuss in the video. A plan is essential for three reasons:

•  It helps you in organizing the flow of ideas you are presenting in the video.
• The plan improves sickness to the discussion topic which enhances its content
• Audience identification is easy with a plan.

3. Upload frequently is can Boost Your YouTube Views and Subscriptions

People love continuity. As such, to enhance the following of viewers and subscribers to your YouTube videos, you need to upload videos regularly. You can schedule your upload program to weekly, biweekly, or even monthly depending on the topic you are discussing on in your videos.

4. Optimize your video titles and description

Yes, optimization. Most of you are familiar with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - making your content easily searchable and improving your ranking on the search engines.  The same knowledge applies to YouTube.  YouTube is the search engine for video content. Uses of keywords in your descriptions make it easier to attract viewers from a search engine. Hence it will boost your YouTube views and subscriptions of your videos.

5. Create short videos

According to Wistia research, shorter videos attract high viewers than longer ones.  The research shows that videos of 1-2 minutes attract the highest number of audience scoring 75%. As per the findings, the average length of a YouTube video should be between 4-5 minutes.  In fact, TED presentation organizers put the time limit bar is 18 minutes.   

Unless you are making a Hollywood movie, ensure your videos are short, informative, and entertaining.

6. Use a call to action annotations

Annotations are descriptive notes or comments inserted in an image, a diagram, or a video. Simply, this is words such as ‘subscribe to my channel,’ ‘click the link in the description,’ follow us on social media,’ among others that you see on the when viewing a YouTube video.

To boost your views and subscriptions on your channel, you have to tell people what to do through a call to action annotation.  
For more information on how to add or edit YouTube annotations, click here. 

(Note: from May 2017, annotation creation will be no more. However, the current ones will still be there.)

7. Collaborate with other YouTube creators in your niche

The famous acronym TEAM which stands for Together Everyone Attains/Achieves More is important. Here, you can exchange ideas to present or even do a YouTube video together. Through this approach, pull viewers and subscribers of both channels together which are a win-win situation. Hence, identify other people on your niche and connect.

Wrapping Up 

In whole, to boost your views and subscriptions on your channel, present high-quality content on your videos. Also, lay down a plan on how the ideas in the video will flow from the start to the end. In addition, ensure your video are short and entertaining. Collaborating with other YouTube creators in your niche and optimizing the title and video descriptions will enhance the viewership and subscription of your channel. Don’t forget to insert annotations on your videos.

Good luck!