I think it's important to remember that the channels associated with the growth of our channel aren't still that active (both the Youtube account and Twitter). It's very hard to attract new subscribers with just a teaser, even though it's something that it's associated with our forum. I'm sure that whenever we have more content to show - and thus more probability to attract audience - the numbers will eventually go up. If we think of it, most of the discussion that has happened regarding the channel took place right here, in this thread - we already discussed about values/ideas/directions that we would like the channel to follow - and I would consider that any subscriber that the channel has has most likely came from this thread. That number sits, as I write this, at 37 subscribers. This number, however, made me think regarding how much users have already participated in this thread and how active they were - can we extrapolate some reasoning behind the 37 subscribers? I decided to make a very rudimentary approach:

• Run all the 17 pages of this thread and take note of each user;
• I also tracked the amount of replies that each user has made. If his/her name was already on my list, then I would add a +1 to his/her reply count

A note of caution - I did this data collection all by hand and by running each page individually. It was nothing made by the aid of a scraping program, so there might be some errors (small % of error I would say). The results where the following:

• Total users that have joined the discussion: 78
• Nº of users whose replies were less (or equal) to 2: 56 (71.79%)

This leaves us with 22 active users that I think are more likely to subscribe to the channel considering how active they were in its discussion. Granted, this is a very loosely assumption, but I don't think its all that farfetched. One could argue that it's hard to define the limits to where we consider a user "actively" engaged in the discussion - I basically consider everything equal or above 3 - and how it translates to him/her to subscribe to the channel, but then again, this was just a simple exercise. For those who are interested to see the remaining users, here's a simple graph:



Do remember though that these users, despite being engaged in the discussion, may not decide to subscribe to the channel. Making a very big assumption - all 22 subscribed to it - we are still lacking 15 subscribers, that probably either came from Twitter, or from users who simply decided to open the first link in the thread and automatically subscribe to it.

Point is, I don't think that the current subscriber amount is something to worry about, at least for now. One year from now, assuming that we have a decent amount of content, we can see how the numbers look like and what we can do to improve them, but for now I believe we just should focus on trying to have solid videos, with a good balance between information and our ... "bitcointalk charm/touch" ?