These days, the digital environment is becoming tougher to compete even on YouTube, due to the increasing number of competitors and ever-changing algorithms. Most content creators, especially those running new or small channels, seek these growth services like Youtubestorm purely to make their channels visible and improve their subscriber count quickly. They offer rapid results, but they are a concern for authenticity and sustainability. Getting more subscribers may make your channel look more perceived by organic viewers, but their impact in the real world on engagement and analytics might not be the same. I will relate in this article my personal experience with Youtubestorm and how it has influenced the overall performance of my YouTube channel.
What is Youtubestorm?
Youtubestorm is an online growth service that provides YouTube creators with tools of engagement, like subscribers, views, likes, and watch time. The main sales pitch is that it helps YouTube channels grow faster by giving them social proof and visibility for a short time.
When I discovered Youtubestorm, my channel had just over 500 subscribers. Upload consistently is all I can say; my growth was slow and stagnant. I decided to give Youtubestorm a try, curious to see how artificial subscriber growth would affect my overall YouTube channel analytics.
The Immediate Boost in Subscriber Count
About 48 hours after I purchased a humble package of 1,000 subscribers, my channel saw a sudden rise in the number of subscribers, lending my channel a more established look. I noticed:
- Increased social credibility
- More organic viewers are subscribing
- A slight increase in video clicks
From a psychological perspective, people show a tendency to interact with the content of platforms that already enjoy a great deal of popularity. The odd 50,000-60,000 subscribers provided by Youtubestorm acted as a catalyst for further genuine participative interaction.
Analyzing the Impact on Watch Time and Views
One of YouTube’s most important ranking signals is watch time, the total minutes people spend watching your content. After the influx of subscribers, I analyzed my channel’s watch time and found mixed results:
Positive Effects:
- Some videos saw a modest increase in views.
- My newer uploads began appearing in the Suggested Videos section more frequently.
- Engagement likes and comments improved slightly due to increased visibility.
Downsides:
- A significant portion of the new subscribers didn’t engage with my content.
- Average view duration dropped slightly.
- YouTube Analytics showed a lower engagement rate among new subscribers.
This suggested that although I had more subscribers, not all of them were genuine viewers interested in my niche. This can skew the algorithm’s understanding of your audience and impact future recommendations.
Effect on Audience Retention and CTR
After analyzing YouTube Studio metrics, I found two other areas affected by the influx of Youtubestorm subscribers:
1. Audience Retention
Retention rate is the percentage of a video watched, on average. With a large number of non-targeted subscribers, retention started to dip, as many didn’t watch my videos fully or at all.
2. Click-Through Rate (CTR)
My CTR dropped by about 10%. I suspect this was due to impressions being delivered to the new subscribers who weren’t interested in my content genre. The lower CTR indicated that YouTube’s algorithm was pushing my content to less interested viewers, possibly due to a distorted subscriber profile.
Did Youtubestorm Subscribers Affect Monetization?
If you’re going to try Youtubestorm, and you’re already in the Partner Program or hoping to monetize soon, be very careful.
YouTube lists 4,000 watch hours and 1,000 real subscribers as requirements for monetization.
Youtubestorm grows your subscriber count; however, YouTube can mark them as non-engaged subscribers.
Having inactive subscribers can slow down or deny your monetization process.
I had met the requirements before using Youtubestorm. However, I felt like my AdSense revenue was not proportional to the increase in subscriber count, a clear indicator that engagement trumps numbers.
Is It Safe to Use Youtubestorm?
Youtubestorm claims to use safe, very real accounts, and I’ve never suffered a ban or strike from YouTube in this case. That said, YouTube’s terms of service discourage artificial growth, so there’s always a possibility. Here are a few factors to consider:
- Inactive subscribers have always been purged every now and then by YouTube.
- Channels that display sudden and unnatural growth are likely to be subsequently flagged for review.
- Greater efforts are indeed being made to examine the quality, and not just the quantity, of engagement when analyzing YouTube.
Final Thoughts
Overall, using Youtubestorm subscribers has created an initial jump in numbers for my channel. This itself served as a great push to reach more visibility and social proof. However, many of these results were either temporarily or entirely not reflected in some core metrics like watch time, audience retention, and engagement. Such metrics are highly important for growth and monetization; therefore, inflated numbers alone do not equal success.
No matter how tempting these services are, use them very sparingly, and never consider them a substitute for organic audience development. They keep delivering content for an audience that may see them as organic, interspersed with continuing interactions with the community, and maintain a vast wealth of knowledge about the niche. At the end of the day, subscribing potential customers who genuinely care about what you have to say is worth far more than a quick dump of low-engagement customers.
