YouTube are Removing all off the In-Active + Invalid Subscribers

[Michael Carlyle]

Hello again guys!,
If you haven't already heard Today (9th Febuary 2012) YouTube are going to be Removing all of the In-Active + Invalid Subscribers from the Subscriber Counters (on Your Channel!)

I think this is good because if there are Invalid subscribers on my channel, then they might as well be gone because they are not going to be watching my videos...but on the other hand this could be bad, because not all subscribers watch every video, but if they're going to watch just one of my videos every 3 months then I don't want to be losing that subscriber because they're viewing my videos....Hopefully YouTube doesn't screw up with this, or it could be bad for a lot of people!

What's Your Opinion?

 

[Michael]

Im not so bothered myself but I can imagine those with hundreds of thousands being at least a bit bothered, people like Fred for example, they must have thousands if not hundreds of thousands of inactive subscribers or deleted accounts. It really depends on the criteria on what is classed as an "inactive subscriber" are these people who dont watch your videos? People who have deleted their account? People who haven't been active on YouTube in a long time? I aint bothered though, I think I might lose a couple of hundred maybe and if they're just deleted accounts I dont mind.

 

[Michael Carlyle]

Im not so bothered myself but I can imagine those with hundreds of thousands being at least a bit bothered, people like Fred for example, they must have thousands if not hundreds of thousands of inactive subscribers or deleted accounts. It really depends on the criteria on what is classed as an "inactive subscriber" are these people who dont watch your videos? People who have deleted their account? People who haven't been active on YouTube in a long time? I aint bothered though, I think I might lose a couple of hundred maybe and if they're just deleted accounts I dont mind.

I think they class not watching videos as a un-active subscriber and an Invalid subscriber are subscribers who have closed their account or have been banned....also bot accounts...

 

[Michael]

Well if thats the case the bigger partners will see a big drop in their counts especially ones who started when YouTube started and the count does mean quite a lot to potential subscribers, a lot of people wont subscribe to someone who doesn't have counts that appear popular but I suppose the views will stay the same. In a way I can imagine this affecting newcomers the most as many will sub them just to help them out etc

 

[Michael Carlyle]

I have a feeling that my subscribers will drop about 20-30 (I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but to me every subscriber counts!)

 

[JostenVlogs]

I lost a couple but not as many as i've seen from other people on youtube
It's good I suppose I just wonder how its going to play out in the long run.

 

[Symph]

I have a feeling that my subscribers will drop about 20-30 (I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but to me every subscriber counts!)

Hey bucko.... if you dropped 20 subscribers, that'd be my whole audience. What are you trying to say here? HUH??? HUH????

 

[Michael]

Mine has dropped down from 2157: http://yttalk.com/threads/post-your-youtube-stats.250/page-6#post-7177 to 1961. 196 total lost after this, I guess it isnt too bad considering how long I have had my channel for. Has anyone notice any partners stats being affected by this because you would expect theirs to have dropped loads?