How to Get More Subscribers on YouTube
About 1 minute · Checked November 2026
For us, Shorts brought in far more subscribers than long videos. Across 341 Shorts and 228 long videos, we averaged 28 subscribers per Short and 6 per long video. Shorts brought in 86% of our first 10,465 subscribers.
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Do Shorts or long videos get more subscribers?
For our channel, Shorts did, by a lot. Check your own numbers in YouTube Studio, since every channel is different.
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After publishing 595 YouTube videos, I found this YouTube native tool that helped us get 86% of our 10,465 subscribers. Today's day three on the road to 100,000 YouTube subscribers, and we're sharing the 10 tools that helped us get to 10,000 subscribers. Before I tell you today's tool, which you think got us more subscribers, long-form videos or shorts? Well, we published 228 long-form videos and 341 shorts, and we average six subscribers per long-form video and 28 subscribers per short. Our top long-form video brought in 587 subscribers, while our top short brought in 2,100 subscribers. So, if you haven't guessed it yet, today's tool is YouTube shorts. And if we never posted YouTube shorts, we'd be around 1,000 subscribers today instead of 10,000. I checked the numbers. So, if you want to know how to get more subscribers on YouTube based on our experience, post YouTube shorts. They're quicker to make and generally more effective. Subscribe to join us for the next tool tomorrow.
We're Justin and Megan. Along with the how-tos, we share a few minutes of faith every day from the season we're walking through right now.
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