—————SHORT VERSION—————
First off, I want to say that I absolutely love your product.
It’s clean, fast, and does what it’s supposed to do—every time. Unlike The-Competitor-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named, your company supports various platforms besides Google Chrome, doesn’t ask for ridiculous YouTube access permissions, and even has a mobile app. Not only that, Andrew’s videos on the TubeBuddy channel are awesome—love that guy. Throw in the affordable pricing and you’re heckin’ perfect. Almost.
The-Competitor-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named is nowhere near TubeBuddy’s level in the grand scheme of things but it does have one edge on us. Features. Specifically extra informative features. One feature in particular is something I cannot wait for TubeBuddy to implement—subscriber count next to account names site-wide. The-Competitor-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named already has this, every time a YouTube account name is shown, whether it is in YouTube Search, or on a specific video’s comment section, it has the subscriber count prominently listed.
Here are two examples images:
1) View: https://i.imgur.com/fyg7rga.jpg
2) View: https://i.imgur.com/ubmI32P.jpg
TubeBuddy already has this feature but only in a specific Comment area (don’t know what it’s called) of our channels.
Here is an example of that: View: https://i.imgur.com/bCHP2vv.jpg
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I’m assuming (?) that it won’t be too difficult to implement this site-wide like The-Competitor-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named? I even love the TubeBuddy design with the black status bars and text. This is honestly something I will gladly fork over $ for in a heartbeat, like no joke—Pro upgrade, here I come the second I see this added.
—————LONGER VERSION—————
Now you may be wondering—786X, why does this feature matter so much? Well, I’ll tell you. See, the sub count next to usernames is an invaluable feature used to gauge which channels are “better” to check out. See, back in the good ol’ days of YouTube, it was near impossible to differentiate a channel owner’s comments from an imposter on their own video unless you manually clicked to check the channel account. Nowadays, YouTube gives channel owner’s a check mark when they post a comment on their own videos. Problem solved, right?! Not quite.
What if we’re trying to check if the comment was made by another (not channel owner) prominent YouTuber? See, I, and I’m sure others, read YouTube comments quite a bit while watching a video. And we often run into comments by other prominent YouTubers that make us go “Huh, what is s/he doing on this part of the ‘tube?” only to realize it’s an imposter. Sub count next to individual comments would make that issue go away—no imposter can feasibility have the exact sub count as the account they’re masquerading as. Another reason why this feature may be useful is to find up and coming channels. Say you’re watching a music video and a comment says “Hey, this is such a great song! Reminds me of my new album that I released last week. Mind checking it out?”—most of the time I just shake my head and move on. But with the sub count feature, we will be able to see at a glance how large of an audience that user already has. Say he has 5K subs already... realistically I would go “Hmm, if he just started and he’s already gaining traction, maybe there is something special going on there. I’m gonna check him out.” You get the idea.
Sorry for the novel by the way, I write like I speak—expressive but completely disorganized.
First off, I want to say that I absolutely love your product.
It’s clean, fast, and does what it’s supposed to do—every time. Unlike The-Competitor-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named, your company supports various platforms besides Google Chrome, doesn’t ask for ridiculous YouTube access permissions, and even has a mobile app. Not only that, Andrew’s videos on the TubeBuddy channel are awesome—love that guy. Throw in the affordable pricing and you’re heckin’ perfect. Almost.
The-Competitor-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named is nowhere near TubeBuddy’s level in the grand scheme of things but it does have one edge on us. Features. Specifically extra informative features. One feature in particular is something I cannot wait for TubeBuddy to implement—subscriber count next to account names site-wide. The-Competitor-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named already has this, every time a YouTube account name is shown, whether it is in YouTube Search, or on a specific video’s comment section, it has the subscriber count prominently listed.
Here are two examples images:
1) View: https://i.imgur.com/fyg7rga.jpg
2) View: https://i.imgur.com/ubmI32P.jpg
TubeBuddy already has this feature but only in a specific Comment area (don’t know what it’s called) of our channels.
Here is an example of that: View: https://i.imgur.com/bCHP2vv.jpg
.
I’m assuming (?) that it won’t be too difficult to implement this site-wide like The-Competitor-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named? I even love the TubeBuddy design with the black status bars and text. This is honestly something I will gladly fork over $ for in a heartbeat, like no joke—Pro upgrade, here I come the second I see this added.
—————LONGER VERSION—————
Now you may be wondering—786X, why does this feature matter so much? Well, I’ll tell you. See, the sub count next to usernames is an invaluable feature used to gauge which channels are “better” to check out. See, back in the good ol’ days of YouTube, it was near impossible to differentiate a channel owner’s comments from an imposter on their own video unless you manually clicked to check the channel account. Nowadays, YouTube gives channel owner’s a check mark when they post a comment on their own videos. Problem solved, right?! Not quite.
What if we’re trying to check if the comment was made by another (not channel owner) prominent YouTuber? See, I, and I’m sure others, read YouTube comments quite a bit while watching a video. And we often run into comments by other prominent YouTubers that make us go “Huh, what is s/he doing on this part of the ‘tube?” only to realize it’s an imposter. Sub count next to individual comments would make that issue go away—no imposter can feasibility have the exact sub count as the account they’re masquerading as. Another reason why this feature may be useful is to find up and coming channels. Say you’re watching a music video and a comment says “Hey, this is such a great song! Reminds me of my new album that I released last week. Mind checking it out?”—most of the time I just shake my head and move on. But with the sub count feature, we will be able to see at a glance how large of an audience that user already has. Say he has 5K subs already... realistically I would go “Hmm, if he just started and he’s already gaining traction, maybe there is something special going on there. I’m gonna check him out.” You get the idea.
Sorry for the novel by the way, I write like I speak—expressive but completely disorganized.
