{"id":14761,"date":"2022-06-30T22:39:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T22:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/youtube-disables-hidden-subscriber-counts\/456447\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T22:39:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T22:39:40","slug":"youtube-disables-hidden-subscriber-counts-via-sejournal-mattgsouthern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketingnewsbox.com\/?p=14761","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Disables Hidden Subscriber Counts via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As part of a more significant effort to fight creator impersonation across the platform, YouTube has stopped allowing channels to hide the number of subscribers they have.<\/p>\n

Hiding subscriber counts is one of the ways spammers succeed at impersonating other channels when leaving comments.<\/p>\n

A low subscriber count is a dead giveaway that someone posing as another creator isn\u2019t who they say they are.<\/p>\n

Comment spam and identity-related abuse are top of mind for many people on YouTube today.<\/p>\n

In response, several updates are rolling out to help protect viewers and creators from comment spam while making it harder to impersonate creators.<\/p>\n

The updates include:<\/p>\n