What does subscribing in YouTube do?

it basically means that you’re following their channel and watching for updates from your favorite youtubers, which means when they upload a video it will appear in your subscription feed.

It helps to separate the pops from the non-pops. It makes the difference for some to gain employment. YouTubers often receive notoriety according to how many likes and subscribers they get. Some are paid for being regulars when they are consistently popular.

The system counts on people like my 7 year old son, who excitedly opens his email from YouTube every day looking for new videos from his favourite channels.

@Skunky Yes, but what does it do for them, other than the satisfaction of knowing that they’re being followed by x million people?

YouTube has a profit sharing plan with people who have high numbers of subscribers. I dont know offhand what the threshhold number is but for some people it has proven to be quite profitable.

The little kid from “David After Dentist” is going to have his college education paid for so for some wildly popular ones it can be life changing.

Maru, Grumpy Cat and Sparta (The Mean Kitty song and channel) have unexpectedly paid off quite well for their respective owners.

In the case of Sparta, it also helps that his owner is extremely creative (writing the song and subsequently doing short creative videos of his life)

Most of these hugely successful channels werent initially started out as a purposefully money making enterprise. They were just happy accidents which turned out extremely well.

There has been quite a bit written about many of these cases and a basic search will turn up a lot of interesting reading.

I personally have been a subscriber to the Mean Kitty channel for years and love it. But i dont go crazy subscribing to a whole raft of channels. The only other one I subscribe to is Ask the Android Guy and thats pretty much it. Otherwise you just end up with a cluttered inbox and it becomes a tedious chore.

When you subscribe to a channel, you receive notifications on your homepage feed when that particular channel uploads a new video.

For the subscriber it means you don’t have to search for stuff you like as you’ll be getting updates regularly and for those running it they get good amount of money if there’s is a hit based on no of visitors. If you have subscribed then it is more likely that you will visit their page rather than if you haven’t..isn’t it ?

As for what it does for the person running the channel? Well it will maximise the amount of views the have if they manage to get a large amount of subscribers. And if they are on the partnership program or YouTube Red they will receive revenue from Google based on their views. The revenue is based on the Google ad sense for the most part.

THE MEAN KITTY SONG

(Take a look at the total views. Yes, that’s millions.)
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https://youtu.be/Qit3ALTelOo

I have seen all they mean kitty videos. He is sooooo funny.
Talking kitty is super too.

OK, I see. I didn’t know about YouTube Red.

For the owner, bragging rights. Big ego. And more views if people tell others about the channel.
For the subscriber, you get to see how popular the channel is, enjoyment out of watching your favorite youtubers, and a much more convenient way of accessing their videos.