Youtube Channel Turning Point Explosive Growth

I haven't seen it yet. I'm about to hit 2200 subs, and it's just basically steady growth. I don't have a type of channel that really lends itself to a huge burst of growth, I don't think, so I don't know about the wisdom of saying that any particular number will put you on the bubble. There are tons of 2K, 4K, 6K channels out there that simply grow slowly or stall out after a while. Many also do get really big, but it's (I think) unrelated to a number that's existing and more about the content they're producing and what happens to be popularly searched and recommended at the time.
 
I think when you hit 1000, things probably start getting interesting. getting to that 1000 though is no easy task. I'm way off that milestone!
 
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adams eats said:
I think when you hit 1000, things probably start getting interesting. getting to that 1000 though is no easy task. I'm way off that milestone!
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I hit the 1000 mark yesterday and don't see any change yet, but i agree getting to the 1000 mark is difficult. Some people say 2000 is when the snowballing effect start to kick in.
 
There really isn't any "turning" point - there are those who sit at 2k forever, some sit at 5k forever -- I guess it kind of depends if you can continue the effect of "snowballing" by constantly uploading good content. If you can get 1 video viral however and keep going with that, you'll be snowballing a good amount.
 
Some will say that there are set "subscriber thresholds" regardless of your channel's content, but it's not as clear cut as it seems. It is heavily content-dependent. If your content doesn't appeal to a general audience, you'll see steady growth throughout your entire YouTube lifetime based on people's perception of your content's quality with "explosive" events occurring either from an external source, or a video that was featured/suggested and garnered a good response from a broader audience.

Expecting your channel to finally "snowball" based on hitting a certain amount of subscribers is wishful thinking. Just look at sub rates on different popular channels across different genres and sub-genres. They all not only gain subscribers at different rates, but some "snowball" or "explode" at different points.

Personally, I saw steady growth from 0 to 50,000 subscribers with a steady increase in subscribers per day, capping off at around 250 subs a day excluding days that I was featured in online articles. It wasn't until my content was picked up by YouTube itself through features/suggestions that I broke through the 250 threshold, with my sub rate now sitting at roughly 1k per day.

You're best to project the growth rate of your channel based on growth trends you already see within your channel.
 
personally 20k is where i started to notice the ball rolling. and 50k it really started to snowball.
but that might just be content.
 
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