How Do I Keep Gaining Subscribers?

[MShadowlawn]

In the opening releases of my main work, I usually managed to get one or two subs per chapter, more or less, but it's been at least 5+ chapters or so where my work has no new subs every chapter. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

My work, for reference:

Urban Wolf: On The Run | Tapas

[thedude3445]

I have no idea about this either, but novels are quite small on Tapas. If the story isn't romance or premium, it's going to have a hard time even on less populated genres. I learned that myself recently. Hopefully you'll get a lot of new followers though!

[BarBarKetrab]

Unfortunately, this is the way it seems to be for most of us creators here on Tapas. Unless you promote the heck out of your work tirelessly or participate in a lot of sub4sub threads (which some creators don't like doing), there's a high chance that your novel/comic will sink down into the abyss after some time, especially if you are relatively new here.

My advice would be to simply keep doing what your doing and to never stop promoting. Even if your first or second work doesn't set sail, you'll have plenty of opportunities to get better and increase the size of your audience with time.

[ISNEKO]

22 subscribers since the first post in March seems pretty typical for around here, in my opinion. Problem is, it's always been that way and never ever changed since independent novels started.

The only ways I know to get yourself some traction is to upload daily if possible, have an appealing cover, have a curious name, and be of a genre that's hot. I had a lot of books on Tapas at one point and the only time any of my work had a consistent time of growth was when I was able to update every 1-2 days for a month. It's frequency in the recently updated lists got clicks, and then those new views added to the algorithm, getting the book to hang out in the Trending list, which in turn helped it again.

The moment my real life didn't let me upload often, it died. Straight into the ground.

[PaleOcra]

It's quite the norm to have 0 subs. I have 0 subs and 0 views down the road. Which led me to a brilliant 3 subs for a year in Tapas. And they are all dead subs, nobody sees my newest chapter according to analytics.

[wekanian]

I also experienced this with my comic. I got steady flow of subs when updating daily and the moment my buffer caught up and my updates turned to a 10-day update, it’s really difficult to get a sub, even 1 view/day is quite far in between.

So, from this I am thinking to pile up my updates and once I finish 1 arc, I will update it daily in Tapas. Like seasonal comic.

[sleepy_puppy97]

This site has made it nearly impossible to get new subs now. It didn't always used to be like this, but now that Tapas is only featuring those corporate sponsored romance animes that get them a ton of money, they don't even try to draw attention to actual creative, diverse comics. I remember when my home page was often full of new, random comics from regular people creating just to create, and they often had barely any followers at all. The Staff Picks was a way to boost creative works from all kinds of artists. Now it's all just sponsored stuff.

The only things I can recommend is promoting through forums and on other platforms. This is only going to get worse as Tapas focuses more and more on those promoted comics.

[sushy00]

yeah same, I wish they would also feature things that weren't already popular. I have this both as a viewer and creator.

[mcarrowolga]

I no longer gain any subscribers on Tapas, only lose one or two a week

I made a list of resources for webfiction promotion. Take a look, maybe you'll have more luck with them than I did.