About 80% of my views are from non-subscribers!

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Do you guys know any good strategies to convert non-subs into subs!
So, I took a look at my creator studio app and....about 80% of my views come from people who are not subscribed to my channel, meaning I could convert the 80% to potential subs which would tremendously help me grow my channel.

I have no clue how to, though. Anyone with expertise on this?

PS: I stopped uploading videos for 6 months because I uni, but now I'm 100% back at it again.

Thanks!
 
Subbing because I am in the same boat.
FYI, what has NOT worked for me is the new "Subscribe" End-cards.. So far after thousands of views they have received a whopping total of 2 clicks.. I can't find the report to show me how many of those actually subscribed, but even if 100% of those 2 actually subscribed, that's still something like a 0.0001% conversion rate.
 
Same here! I think this is the case for the majority of YouTubers, specifically smaller ones. Potential subscribers are more difficult to convince when the sub-count you already have is so low. People like joining crowds.
 
Hmm. If I look at my Analytics, over the last 28 days (which was a normal period for my channel), only 6.85% (0.0685) of my views came from subscribers, meaning 93.15% came from non-subscribers. Even worse, if I compare the number of subscribers I gained over that period to my non-subscriber views (meaning the number of people who viewed and then subscribed), it is only 0.076% (0.00076). So I get a new subscriber once every 1,315 non-subscriber views.
 
The percentage of subscribe to non-subscribe really isn't as important as some might think. I personally sit at 75/25. You should be more interested in the views you're receiving from your subscribers relative to the amount of subscribers you actually have. If only a small percentage of your subscribers are coming back to watch your videos, then that can be detrimental to your overall meta data for newly published videos. If anything, focus on creating content that caters directly to having your subscribers come back wanting to watch more. After all, they subscribed to you for a reason.
 
The NotARubicon! said:
Subbing because I am in the same boat.
FYI, what has NOT worked for me is the new "Subscribe" End-cards.. So far after thousands of views they have received a whopping total of 2 clicks.. I can't find the report to show me how many of those actually subscribed, but even if 100% of those 2 actually subscribed, that's still something like a 0.0001% conversion rate.
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Did you check how many people reach the end cards in your audience retention overview of your videos? If its only a few your conversion might actually be high?
Don't have access to my computer right now but I believe the end card statistics show how often it was displayed as well if I remember correctly to check your conversion rate.
 
PictureFIT said:
The percentage of subscribe to non-subscribe really isn't as important as some might think. I personally sit at 75/25. You should be more interested in the views you're receiving from your subscribers relative to the amount of subscribers you actually have. If only a small percentage of your subscribers are coming back to watch your videos, then that can be detrimental to your overall meta data for newly published videos. If anything, focus on creating content that caters directly to having your subscribers come back wanting to watch more. After all, they subscribed to you for a reason.
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Hmm, that's a little harder to figure out. Initially you may think that you take your number of subscriber views compared to your subscriber count, but if I go by the month, I received about 7x the number of subscriber views as total subscribers. So is daily a better statistic? Or as often as you upload? So if you upload once a week, then dividing your 28-day subscriber-view count by 4 and comparing it to your total subscriber count. That seems accurate. I upload daily, so I'll be dividing it by 28. So for me, my daily subscriber view count is 26% (0.26) of my total subscribers.
 
Most of my views come from non-subscribers as well, I mean it is what it is I don't worry about it myself too much I just keep doing what I'm doing.
 
PictureFIT said:
The percentage of subscribe to non-subscribe really isn't as important as some might think. I personally sit at 75/25. You should be more interested in the views you're receiving from your subscribers relative to the amount of subscribers you actually have. If only a small percentage of your subscribers are coming back to watch your videos, then that can be detrimental to your overall meta data for newly published videos. If anything, focus on creating content that caters directly to having your subscribers come back wanting to watch more. After all, they subscribed to you for a reason.
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yeah the amount of views to sub I get is over 10% and way higher than other smaller channels get, which usually have around 50 views per video, which makes me believe they do subforsub. I just think I'll keep uploading stuff and whoever is creeping on my account will eventually sub.
 
Idec Sdawkminn said:
Hmm, that's a little harder to figure out. Initially you may think that you take your number of subscriber views compared to your subscriber count, but if I go by the month, I received about 7x the number of subscriber views as total subscribers. So is daily a better statistic? Or as often as you upload? So if you upload once a week, then dividing your 28-day subscriber-view count by 4 and comparing it to your total subscriber count. That seems accurate. I upload daily, so I'll be dividing it by 28. So for me, my daily subscriber view count is 26% (0.26) of my total subscribers.
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I personally take the number of views from subscribers within the first 48 hours of releasing a video. If that number is high, you know your subscribers really enjoy your content and will watch as soon as they can. However, if that number is low, there's a good chance that your content is swaying away from the type of content people initially subscribed to watch. It also caters into the theory of "view velocity," where your content has a greater chance to be placed on browse features if there is a solid amount of your subscribers returning to watch a new video.
 
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