Daily

Get told when you pass a subscriber milestone

Your subscriber count is tracked daily and you hear each time it crosses the next thousand.

Runs: Daily
Apps: YouTube
AI: Not needed
Access: API key

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day, check my subscriber count and email me when I pass each 1,000.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Channel growth feels invisible from day to day, then suddenly a number rolls over and people congratulate you. Creators who check YouTube Studio only occasionally miss the exact moment they pass 1,000 or 10,000 subscribers, and with it the chance to post a thank-you, apply for monetisation or tell a sponsor, while the news is fresh.

Each day, your channel's statistics, subscribers and total views, are read and stored. The new numbers are compared with those saved before, and when a milestone you set is crossed an alert is sent. The stored history also gives a daily snapshot of growth.

Small and mid-size creators building toward monetisation thresholds, and managers reporting growth to a brand, tend to rely on it. Each night's numbers are saved, so you can see both the milestone and the path to it.

What you get out of it

Milestones are celebrated on time
A thank-you post on the day you reach 10,000 subscribers lands better than one a week later, and the audience that helped you get there sees it. Moments like that are what viewers share, and they only work on the day.
Monetisation thresholds are not missed
Passing the subscriber count needed for partner programme applications is a trigger to apply, and an alert stops you from finding out weeks after becoming eligible. Applying promptly means earning sooner, which matters for a channel that is growing on a tight budget.
Daily history shows the trend
Seeing subscribers and views each day reveals which uploads gave a spike and which weeks were flat, helping you learn what drives growth. Learning from those peaks tells you which topics and formats to repeat.
Sponsors get timely numbers
When you reach a new tier, you can update your media kit the same day and approach sponsors with current figures instead of last quarter's. Brands respond to current numbers, and stale ones can cost you a better deal.
Hidden subscriber counts are handled
If you hide your count, the statistics may not return it, and you will know that the milestone alert will not work, rather than waiting for something that never comes.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Once a day, ClickRuntime checks your YouTube channel's subscriber count.
It compares it with yesterday's count, which it saved on the last check.
When you pass the next thousand, you get an email such as "You passed 13,000 subscribers", with today's and yesterday's numbers. On other days nothing is sent.

Before it runs live

Connect YouTube

What you get

RunsDaily

Get told when you pass a subscriber milestonetoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · You passed 13,000 subscribersNow at 13,042 (yesterday 12,968).

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other YouTube steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

subscriber_milestone_alert.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state, notify

CHANNEL_ID = "UCxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    stats = http.get("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels", params={
        "key": credentials.secret("YOUTUBE_API_KEY"), "part": "statistics", "id": CHANNEL_ID,
    }).json()["items"][0]["statistics"]
    subs = int(stats["subscriberCount"])
    last = state.get("subs") or subs
    state.set("subs", subs)
    if subs // 1000 > last // 1000:
        notify.email_me(f"You passed {subs // 1000 * 1000:,} subscribers", f"Now at {subs:,} (yesterday {last:,}).")
        return {"milestone": subs // 1000 * 1000}
    return {"subs": subs}

FAQ

Common questions

How are milestones defined?

You choose the numbers, such as 1,000, 5,000, 10,000 and every 10,000 after that. The run compares today's total with the stored one and alerts when a milestone falls between the two, so skipping over one in a day does not miss it.

Will it alert for views as well as subscribers?

Yes. The same check can be applied to total views, so you can be told when the channel passes a million views. Tell your AI assistant to add the view milestones you care about and approve the change.

Where does the alert go?

By default to your email, though Slack is an option too. Teams often send it to a shared channel so that editors and managers celebrate together, which you can arrange by asking your AI assistant to change the destination.

What permissions does it need?

API key. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (daily). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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