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I've been stuck at around 450-500 subscribers for the past 2 months and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I post consistently (every saturday), my editing has gotten better, I'm using tags and descriptions... but i'm just not growing

Some videos do okay (200-300 views) but most get like 80-100 views and that's it. my subscriber count goes up by maybe 5-10 per week which is basically nothing

I'm in the fitness niche making home workout videos. there's definitely an audience for this but i'm not reaching them somehow

Has anyone else been stuck at a certain subscriber count? How did you break through it?

I was stuck at 600 subscribers for almost 4 months and it was brutal. felt like nothing i did made any difference

What finally broke the plateau for me was going back through my analytics and figuring out which video had the best click through rate and watch time, then making 5 more videos on that exact same topic/style

It turned out my audience loved equipment-free workouts way more than my dumbbell workout videos but i was making both types. once i committed to just the equipment-free stuff my growth picked up again

Also 5-10 new subs per week isn't nothing, that's 40 subs per month which means you're growing just slowly. if you can figure out how to double that you'll be at 1k in 6 months

Have you tried doing youtube shorts? i know everyone says shorts don't convert to long form subscribers but i found they helped get my channel in front of new people and some of them did check out my regular videos

Fitness content is super saturated so you really need to stand out. I checked out a few home workout channels and they all kind of blend together unless they have a specific hook

Are you just "guy doing workouts" or do you have an angle? like "workouts for people with knee injuries" or "10 minute workouts for busy parents" or "apartment friendly workouts that don't disturb neighbors"? you need something that makes you different

Also i'm gonna guess your thumbnails might be the problem. fitness thumbnails need to either show the transformation/results or have really clear text explaining what the workout does. if your thumbnail is just you in a gym it won't get clicks

500 subs is that awkward middle phase where you're not small enough for youtube to give you the "new channel boost" but not big enough to get recommended widely. the way out is to make one video that performs really well and breaks you into the algorithm

focus on making your next 5 videos REALLY good instead of just posting consistently. quality over quantity at this stage