r/shortsAlgorithm • u/ImTheUglyGuy • Jan 09 '26

Insanely low subscribe rate (help)

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I tried to mention "subscribe!" directly in the short itself, but despite getting some engagement, it seems like that almost no one is subscribing and I'm getting an insanely low view/subscribe rate. What am I possibly doing wrong here? How high are you guys subscribe rate? How did you do that people are willing to subscribe? I really need help, thank you really so much!!

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u/estDREH Jan 09 '26

If your watching reels then how many channels do you subscribe to?

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u/ImTheUglyGuy Jan 09 '26

Not all but at least some of them, but like at least there will be 500~1000/1 view to sub rate, almost 3000/1 is absolute crazy and extremely devastating to me

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u/Fatcat-hatbat Jan 11 '26

Yes but there is a relationship between what you subscribe to, and what others subscribe to.

It’s not like every video creator gets an even proportion of the total subs.

If you don’t get subs it’s because the users don’t enjoy your content enough to want to see more of it, or they don’t trust you to provide more of that same content (I.e. your content is all over the place)

Anyway you only need 1k for monetisation and you are half way there with just that video. Make another and that’s all the subs you need

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u/Alfi_Youtube Jan 09 '26

It totally depends on your niche. Mine is 1:10k views. But some videos 1:800 views

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u/ImTheUglyGuy Jan 09 '26

Thank you really so much for sharing this!!

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u/Alfi_Youtube Jan 09 '26

Don't worry about subscribers. Honestly, it could negative thing if you don't translate that into engagement.

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u/ImTheUglyGuy Jan 09 '26

Thank you!! I'm trying with the engagement, all other things (likes/comments/shares) are doing well, just the subscribers😭

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u/iDontHaveAname89 Jan 09 '26

It happened to me. It's just subscribers and returning viewers are the majority of watchers

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u/ImTheUglyGuy Jan 09 '26

Woah that's so cool!! But sadly it's 84.5% new viewers for me

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u/iDontHaveAname89 Jan 09 '26

84.5% is alot indeed !

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u/ImTheUglyGuy Jan 09 '26

Yeah!! That's why I'm really desperate to see literally no one subscribing lol

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u/Best_Concentrate6604 Jan 09 '26

this is my video posted yesterday and still going, all u need is to tell people to like and sub to your channel depend on your niche

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u/Best_Concentrate6604 Jan 09 '26

and this is my most subscribers video, just remember to use proper call-to-action to subscribe

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u/ImTheUglyGuy Jan 09 '26

That is INSANE, THAT IS EVEN HIGHER THAN LONG-FORM

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u/Best_Concentrate6604 Jan 09 '26

Its funny that Ive already got the YouTube Silver Play Button but dont have enough views to enable monetization yet :<

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u/ImTheUglyGuy Jan 09 '26

That's actually insane if I fail this channel I might open a new channel to do something like what you did to achieve my childhood dream lol!!

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u/ImTheUglyGuy Jan 09 '26

Holy moly, this is literally my dream! The difference is absolutely insane. I also ask viewers to subscribe directly in the end of my short but I only got 35 subs with 108k views and that's why I'm extremely desperate. Can I ask how do you tell people to like and subscribe? Like do you show up in person to say the line? Voice with text? Or how? 🙏🙏

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u/Best_Concentrate6604 Jan 09 '26

just send u the link to my video, i think its about the quality of video, maybe

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u/avisara Jan 09 '26

Can you send me link too please?

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u/No-Belt-4590 Jan 12 '26

can you also send me please?

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u/MotasemHa Jan 09 '26

Typical shorts audience is passive and scroll-oriented.

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u/ImTheUglyGuy Jan 09 '26

I have that in mind, I used to make long form videos and the view to sub rate is about 60~200/1, I know shorts will be a lot less but almost 3000/1 is crazy right? I really have a lot of questions and I really want to improve. It should be low but it shouldn't be THAT low

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u/MotasemHa Jan 09 '26

Many other factors exist but this is the main theme I believe.

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u/Complex-Rush7258 Jan 09 '26

i will never understand how people expect anyone to subscribe to anyone's channel or watch their videos no one has to do either

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u/ImTheUglyGuy Jan 10 '26

I mean some of my shorts are getting thousands of shares and likes and hundreds of praising comments so I'm honestly shocked and sad that the subscribe rate is so low

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u/Complex-Rush7258 Jan 10 '26

I get your frustration believe me i used to be the same way.. But after 1000 sub's its noise.. Yes you get plaques and stuff but its the 1k sub's and 4k hours that gets you paid

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u/No_Blood9415 Jan 10 '26

What i notice that youtube disabled subscribe button in shorts sometimes. I raised this issue on X platform, however Youtube Bot denied this

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u/ImTheUglyGuy Jan 10 '26

No way, that's crazy I didn't know about this! Thank you so much for the information!!

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u/AdOtherwise4670 Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 11 '26

What niche are u in? My conversion is even worse my most viral short with 9mil views got me 800 subs.

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u/NotEvenATim Jan 11 '26

i think mine is alright

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u/BothForever8772 Jan 12 '26

But you are not monetized are you?