Rugby League on Youtube

People aren't subscribed because both channels are practically invisible. People aren't going to subscribe to something they don't know exists. The onus is on those who run the channel and the SL to make fans and non fans aware of their Youtube page. It's paramount to asking why many of the great websites on the internet aren't more popular - Poor marketing.

If these channels want subscribers they should show a bit of creativity and create/release videos that will grow attention. They need to do better than they are doing. Why don't they release compilations, player highlights? Why don't they actually upload interesting incidents, individual tries, tackles, great plays, even fights from games? Game highlights, surprisingly or not, just aren't that popular. And the highlights being offered by the official channels just aren't that good. There's never replays, even from TV broadcasts when replays are clearly available, and none of the highlights make sense -- Because everything but tries are ignored. For example, a team could go down to 12 men, an important moment in a game if there is one, yet there is never even mention of it on highlights. A star player could be injured and replaced, no mention of it. A 26 man brawl could take place, there would be no mention if it.

I enjoy the player interviews -- especially when they're taking the out of 'Roger' Chase -- but both those channels are ran by people who have NFI how to run a successful Youtube channel. It's actually shocking, bordering on the disgusting, how poorly run those channels are. Give me access to the same content they have and I would have you tens of thousands of subscribers and millions of video views within a year, and I'd do it easily... EASILY.

It sounds revolutionary but asking for subscribers usually results in getting subscribers, but I don't see either channel adding annotations to their videos and encouraging people to subscribe to the channel. This is basic stuff.