Anyone constantly checking their subs count constantly?

[Hirudov]

Hehe this is great!

I wonder if anyone has any stories of inadvertently creating a viral video, and the realtime stats just exploding? Must be so exciting! I'd happily take steady growth though.

I had one video that out of nowhere started getting 3K views per hour on my second channel. The channel barely had 100-200 views per day, so that huge jump made me remember that I had the channel at all. Thanks to this video the channel got enough subscribers to convince me it is worth uploading there as well. I started using it as a backup channel, where I upload inferior versions of my videos for people who don't have the right hardware/equipment to watch the videos on my main channel. It was a nice surprise, that I didn't expect at all, taking into account the video was already available on my main channel.

 

[darkstarmedia]

I've just come back from Summer In The City, so I'm eyeing up my numbers more frequently to see if networking has done me any good!

 

[Alexander Hoff]

Not that often. Only about 10 times an hour...

So, like I said, not that often...

 

[Idec Sdawkminn]

I don't normally. On average, I'll check my sub count once a week. I'll check my views once every 1 or 2 days. I've long since turned off all YouTube email notifications besides comments.

Lately, however, I've been more frequently checking my sub count since I've promised to upload a video when I hit my next milestone, and I don't want to miss it. If I don't keep checking and keep it in mind, I'll forget and get distracted with other things.

 

[Devin]

Yeah I check especially more often since I went under 200 I was happy with that now, I'm staring at the number hoping it goes back to 200.