History Main / PleaseSubscribeToOurChannel

* In the beginning of his videos, ''LetsPlay/{{Dream}}'' shows us his [=YouTube=] statistics, then tells us that we don't have to like him or his videos, in a way that feels like we're not pressured to.

* You could argue that crowd-funding sites like Website/{{Indiegogo}} and Website/{{Kickstarter}} are this sort of thing on a professional level. For example, ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'' used the former in order to make Seasons 3 and 4.

* The makers of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosCrossover'' already ran a successful Website/{{Kickstarter}} funding for their ''Super Action Squad'' project, but are now asking for more donations so they can devote more time to developing it. There's a meter below the game's main menu showing how much they raised and how much they need, between which there is a ''big'' gap.

* Blind Ferret Enterprises, the business developed for producing ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'' and ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'', founder Ryan Sohmer is viciously against this. Whenever he comments about webcomics in general or tries to give advice to people wanting to make webcomics, this is one of the first 'don'ts' on his list, right after 'fail to update when you promise to'. Sohmer does, however, post about his various Website/{{Kickstarter}} projects in the NewsPost section.

You've heard it a thousand times. You're watching a video on Website/YouTube, and suddenly you're asked to "please subscribe to our channel", or maybe you're told where the subscribe button is located since you could never hope to find it on your own. Typically, any "professional-ish" Website/YouTube video closes with anywhere from 15 seconds to 2 minutes of screens full of flashing animated "Click Me! Click Me!" buttons trying to entice the viewer to subscribe and/or watch all the other videos in the channel, as well as exhortations to like and/or comment on the video. This is [[InherentInTheSystem encouraged by the site]]: likes, subscriptions, and comments are all factored into the algorithm as a sign that the video is worth spreading, so it is basically mandatory for creators on the site to encourage that engagement to grow or maintain relevance and visibility.

* Hundreds of LetsPlay, most often on Website/YouTube, do this.

* ''WebVideo/{{Stampylongnose}}'s'' ''Let's Cress'' channel {{parodie|dTrope}}s this by obscuring key parts of videos with 'Like The Video!!!' text, which flies onscreen with an increasingly long and ridiculous whooshing sound each time. At the end of a video, he also asks people to subscribe and share the video on Website/{{Facebook}} and Website/MySpace.

** The official Website/YouTube uploads have the following in their descriptions: "Follow us and watch the latest animations of ''Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf''."
** Several of the official Website/YouTube uploads end with Weslie pointing to the subscribe button and Wolffy pointing to more videos.

[[OlderThanTheyThink This isn't limited to YouTube.]] Many magazines, for instance, have full-page ads near the front begging you to subscribe if you haven't already, or subscription cards that fall out as soon as you pick up the periodical. Premium TV channels tend to have ads asking the viewers to renew their subscription. Of course, the trope starter might be Creator/{{PBS}} and Creator/{{NPR}}, who both use appeals and special programming to get viewers and listeners to donate to their stations to continue to provide the programming.

** This has even got to the point that [[https://youtu.be/tro8orISlYE once]] while playing ''VideoGame/AmongUs'', Techno called an Emergency Meeting ''just to tell the people playing with him to "Subscribe to Technoblade"''. [[spoiler:The aforementioned other players immediately voted him off, and it turns out Techno ''was the Impostor'', meaning that he would rather lose the game than miss out on promoting his channel.]] It must be seen to be believed.

* Creating a link that says 'CLICK HERE to subscribe' using annotations was extremely common on Youtube before these customizable boxes were replaced with picture links restricted to the end of the video.

* Starting with episode 4 of ''Anime/CapRevolutionBottleman'' (which has an English dub on the [=YouTube=] channel for Litt Tak Toys), the previews at the end of episodes are ended with Natsu and Momo's catch-phrase "Bottle battle go!", then "Please don't forget to subscribe to the channel!"

* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' has Yatzee mention this while ranting about the crowded interface of ''VideoGame/SystemShock2''. In the video uploaded on Youtube, you can actually click on the text that pops up to subscribe to the channel.

* WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}} has made a thing out of this at the end of most of his videos as well .
---> Caddicarus: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_yxweTIO0 Ay-ay-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay-ay, subscrriibe!]]

* The Critical Drinker used to end videos with the standard "like & subscribe" request, but according to a Q&A, he eventually decided it was cliche and unnecessary, since it rarely persuades viewers who don't care to subscribe. His new signoff is a terse "Anyway, that's all I have for today. Go away now!"
* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/DYKGaming Did You Know Gaming]] ends every video not only with a request to subscribe to their channel, but also the personal channel of whomever is providing the narration for the video in question (with varying degrees of eloquence).

* Every episode of ''WebVideo/MrDeity'' since the third season ends with a sketch in which Brian Dalton (sometimes in character) encourages viewers to donate and/or subscribe. In some cases these have been longer than the episode itself.
* When WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick had Andre the Black Nerd on her Blip show, he instinctively closed the show by asking viewers to like and subscribe, saying that Youtube will violently punish those who don't include that message.

* One ''WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals'' video ends with Harry making this request of the audience, after which a cut back shows Hermione and Ron standing to the side.
--> ''''Hermione:''' "OK, Harry, we will do those things you just told us to do."\\

* ''WebVideo/{{Stampylongnose}}'s'' ''Let's Cress'' channel {{parodie|dTrope}}s this by obscuring key parts of videos with 'Like The Video!!!' text, which flies onscreen with an increasingly long and ridiculous whooshing sound each time. At the end of a video, he also asks people to subscribe, and share the video on Website/{{Facebook}} and Website/MySpace.

--> Every time you like something without adding to favourites, a baby penguin dies. Think of the penguins; like AND favourite. Also subscribe or a piano falls on a baby giraffe.

* ''{{Magazine/Analog}}'': At the end of each issue is a reminder to subscribe to the magazine, offering a discount for subscriptions instead of full newsstand price. Some issues would have more advertising than just the end-of-issue reminder.

** Recent uploads relating to the classic series feature messages from their respective Doctors (Creator/ColinBaker, Creator/TomBaker etc.)

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by Creator/EmperorLemon, who frequently asks people who dislike his newer content (especially those who only subscribed his channel for his Pixar poops) to unsubscribe.

* Music/{{Numberock}}: Most videos ask to check out numberrock.com for a free trial and ad-free videos. Some integrate it uniquely, like Rob in "Number Lines Song" texting [[BreakingTheFourthWall the viewer]] to do this and the latter (labelled as "YOU") potentially agreeing depending on how the rest of the video goes.

* The ''Videogame/LittleBigPlanet'' comment function is never used to comment on the relevant level, but instead consists entirely of people begging you to play and heart their levels. This tendency was parodied in the ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' level pack, where [[spoiler:Liquid Ocelot's evil plan was to flood LBP with generic levels encouraging people to heart him so he can become the most popular player]].

* [=YouTube=] used to host contests which used the video rating system (the "five stars" system at first, then the "thumbs up/down" system which replaced it) as a way of tallying "votes". The page that listed those contests has since disappeared in one of [=YouTube's=] many redesigns.
* The ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' invoke this as a RunningGag, e.g.: "People from Japan! Please confirm this! Like, subscribe and comment!"
* Some episodes of ''WebVideo/NinjaTheMissionForce'' end with either Gordon being called by either Gordon or himself asking how they can support the show, he tells them to share their favourite episodes, etc. and acts like it's no big deal who just phoned him.

* ''WebVideo/MrDeity'' has attached to the end of each episode a clip of the creator rather shamelessly begging for donations. The clips are hilarious and have gotten increasingly elaborate over the years; the ones for season 3 form a mini-storyarc.

* Smoldep from ''VisualNovel/SmoldepsMagickalAdventure'' tells you to remember to like and subscribe to her Youtube channel, and maybe even leave a comment. This leads to a ButThouMust moment in which choosing not to do so will result in [[spoiler: Smoldep killing You.]]

* Creator/TomScott, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQGl-ffVtaM a video about science fiction premises]] (that for various reasons he can't develop into full stories), includes an unsettling cyberpunk spin on the concept of begging for likes and subscriptions. Tom brings up the concept of "unethical simulation and creation of conscious people, from scratch" within a computer system, crediting Creator/GregEgan and Creator/CharlesStross for "basically completing" the genre, then brings it back to Youtube:

* In ''VideoGame/Tekken7'', one of Julia's win poses consists of her begging the audience watching her stream her fights to subscribe to her channel.
* The Levincia Gym in ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' has a Gym Test where you co-star in a stream held by Iono, the Gym Leader. At one point during this, she encourages viewers to “Smash that subscribe button”, with the criteria for you passing the test being if she gets enough new subscribers from the stream.

* ''WebAnimation/FullyRamblomatic'' is an independent CreatorDrivenSuccessor by [[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee Croshaw]] of his now-defunct series ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'', and done [[ChannelHop as part of the newly-formed creator-owned group Second Wind. In the premiere episode of the series and the channel as a whole (a review of ''VideoGame/AlanWakeII''), Yahtzee ends with [[SincerityMode an uncharacteristically impassioned outro]] asking new viewers to support the show and others like it by other former-''[[Website/TheEscapist Escapist]]'' creators by donating to Second Wind's Patreon.

* LetsPlay/{{Technoblade}} did this to the point of MemeticMutation. Techno often promoted his channel at the most inopportune moments, and he even had a "Sellout Timer" set to go off every thirty minutes so he could remember to promote.

* ''LetsPlay/RabbidLuigi'' often injects this into his episodes in a comedic fashion, like claiming the GodMode cheat of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' also causes cryptic messages to rain down that tell you to "subscribe and ring the bell icon". As an example of Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, the comments are usually full of people lauding the way he put it in the episode.

* Occasionally a "like and subscribe" message will pop up as an easter egg in ''WebVideo/NowInTheNineties''. For example, it was used as Ryu's win quote in /StreetFighterII and edited into the Game Over screen of VideoGame/FridayThe13th.

* ''{{LetsPlay/Markiplier}}'' closes out his Youtube videos by pointing out other videos and his annotations, but this trope also became a RunningGag in his Drunk Minecraft series with Bob and Wade, wherein viewers are encouraged to "like favorite and subscribe if X" where X could be ''anything.''

* WebVideo/TheCriticalDrinker used to end videos with the standard "like & subscribe" request, but according to a Q&A, he eventually decided it was cliche and unnecessary, since it rarely persuades viewers who don't care to subscribe. His new signoff is a terse "Anyway, that's all I have for today. Go away now!"