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I never ask people to subscribe. I just use the subscribe watermark thingy in the corner throughout the duration of a video.
First of all this but I'm going to add a bit of my own critique.In my personal opinion, the end. Asking people to subscribe (or like) at the beginning of a video is a bit obnoxious and appears manipulative. Because you're telling your audience to do something with your video before they've even formed their own opinion on it. Granted, you might get more subscribers because not all people stick around until the end.. But it's simultaneously going to tick a lot of people off.
Very good point. That will hurt your channel's ranking in the algorithm. When you upload a video, you need to make sure at least 5% of your subscribers watch it. Otherwise, YouTube doesn't think it's an interesting video because people aren't clicking on it. Dead subscribers increase the amount of views you need for the view-to-sub ratio, and since they aren't watching the videos, that will make growing much harder.These type of subscribers will likely have a lot of subscriptions. So they are more likely to become a product of subscriber burn and become inactive subscribers very shortly.
Definitely the end - personally when i watch a video i want to get straight into the video content, then aftee watching the content if someone asks to sub i can make a decision about it.Should I ask to subscribe at the beginning of the video, or the end? The beginning might work better, but I might look unprofessional. So when should I ask?
You're giving too much credit to people though. Lots of people love watching videos and never subscribe. Telling them reminds them / puts it in their thoughts.I personally would never ask my viewers to subscribe , if they like your channel and content they will naturally.