Are Subscribers Overrated?

Not at all. Success is pretty much subjective from person to person.

If you had 1 million subs and only 200,000 watch, that's about the average and pretty decent.

I myself have subscribed to many channels I barely watch. I subbed because I enjoyed a couple of videos and what to see more of what they have. Or I sub because I like a certain series they do.

I don't think many youtubers have all subs watching every video
 
Think about from your own view point. Do you watch every single second of every single video from every single channel you are subscribed to? Probably not. And to all those people commenting when you have under a few hundred subscribers your views might be quite a bit bigger then your subscribers, but once you get in the thousands subscribers are the most loyal audience.
 
Pewd's subscribers definitely are either subscribing for certain content like horror games, his multiplayer sessions and general indie titles, or he has many dead subscribers that subbed a long time ago and never go back.

If you look at Vanoss Gaming he actually racks up more views than Pewdiepie and he's about to hit 10 million subs. Most of his videos fall within the 4 - 7 million mark which far outweighs Pewd's 2 - 4 million. This indeed goes to show that subs don't count for much in terms of success but it's definitely a good way to measure it.

Pewdiepie has certainly gained a lot of attention and hype from the media and Youtube because of his sub count but there's Youtubers out there doing just as well if not better than him.

To summarise, You sub count is important to some extent, it shows that you have gained regular viewers and you've gained the trust of those people. It's a popularity gauge more than a success one.
 
If you have minimal subscribers but a lot of views it usually means people have checked out your video but aren't interested in sticking around for more from you. A subscriber will usually come back for more. You can't just go off of views.
 
Just like to point out comparing your total views to your number of subs isn't a valid point, as #1 your total views will always be higher than your subs and #2 you might of got a lucky video but your subs are still helping you with other videos.
 
Beastby said:
Pewd's subscribers definitely are either subscribing for certain content like horror games, his multiplayer sessions and general indie titles, or he has many dead subscribers that subbed a long time ago and never go back.

If you look at Vanoss Gaming he actually racks up more views than Pewdiepie and he's about to hit 10 million subs. Most of his videos fall within the 4 - 7 million mark which far outweighs Pewd's 2 - 4 million. This indeed goes to show that subs don't count for much in terms of success but it's definitely a good way to measure it.
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Vanoss to Pewdie is definitely a bad comparison. No one here is mentioning the fact that Pewdie posts a video every single day as compared to Vanoss who posts 2-3 times a week. Pewdie has much more content to watch and I'd say gaining 10% of your subscriber's views in about 24 hours is pretty impressive.
 
Well thing is, subscribers work in a unique way on gamers' channels'

Pewds is very unique even in his "genre", basically BECAUSE he's the most subscribed youtuber he gets a LOT more subscribers, just because of that fact, right now he is youtube's poster boy, so basically they will try to feed him on every channel possible + you used to get him suggested once you create a channel (not sure about now) and some people don't really understand what subscribe means, or simply don't care and are like "finally created my cha- oh words, oh yay the "next" button, my best pal" and get subscribed to him, and before you mention it, some people don't know they are subscribed to certain channels, hence why we have people with over 2k subs and not really watching over 10 of them.

Plus the gamers' thing, you see, Felix uploads like, 10~7 videos a week? which is a lot to "always watch" + that some games don't interest people, so there you have it.

Forgot to mention there must be a shitload of wasted accounts and banned ones in there, 32m is a HUGE number.
 
Kijana said:
Vanoss to Pewdie is definitely a bad comparison. No one here is mentioning the fact that Pewdie posts a video every single day as compared to Vanoss who posts 2-3 times a week. Pewdie has much more content to watch and I'd say gaining 10% of your subscriber's views in about 24 hours is pretty impressive.
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You're right that is impressive but that's not the point I'm making. I'm talking about video to video success.

In terms of subscriber engagement Vanoss is doing amazingly, theoretically he's gaining at least 50% of his audience per video compared to Pewdiepie's 10%. I don't think frequency of videos plays any part in consistent engagement. It goes to show that subscriber count doesn't necessarily measure the success of a video.

In the grand scheme of things, you can't really compare any Youtuber because each channel is different, I'm just providing some perspective.
 
Subscribers are key. Sure you can get a lot of views on videos, but subscribers create conversations which leads to sharing your videos. Discussing them among friends, creating controversy, thoughts and opinions. In the long run, subscribers will fuel your success. After all, they are your main audience. YouTube is your secondary audience.

You might get lucky with a video which gets a million views, but if no one subscribes, you've gained nothing but momentary ad revenue. Getting lucky with a million views again might not be that easy. I'll take subscribers over short term ad revenue any day of the week.
 
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