Goal Thermometer
The other psychology of the subscribe ask. No button, no cursor — just the count running up to where the channel actually is, the bar filling to the same fraction, and the bell ringing once under an ask in your own words.
What it's for
The other psychology of the subscribe ask. No button, no cursor — just the count running up to where the channel actually is, the bar filling to the same fraction, and the bell ringing once under an ask in your own words.
Reach for it when
- Approaching a round milestone — 10K, 100K, the next silver play button
- Channels whose audience is invested in the journey rather than the content alone
- Any creator who finds the cursor-click CTA format embarrassing
How it plays
Viewers close gaps they can see. A bar sitting at 87% is a specific, finishable request in a way that "please subscribe" never is, and the number and the fill are driven from the same value so they cannot disagree. Your formatting is preserved, so 87,412 and 87.4K both read correctly.
Not the right pick when
A channel with no meaningful milestone in reach — a bar at 4% argues against you. Use the Glass Subscribe Card for a direct ask.
The GLASS family
GLASS panels are frosted dark — translucent charcoal with a blurred edge and a hairline border. They sit on darker, contrastier footage: night streets, studio setups with a lit subject on a dark ground, gameplay, screen recordings. On a bright white kitchen they vanish, which is exactly why FROST exists.
Format and export
- Aspect
- Vertical (9:16) · 1080 × 1920
- Runs for
- 8 seconds
- Built for
- Darker, contrastier footage — night, studio, gameplay
- Publishes to
- Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts
- Exports as
- ProRes 4444, PNG sequence, MP4
- Background
- Transparent
- Plan
- Creator Pro and up
Edit it in the iReelz Studio — the transparent exports drop straight onto a timeline in Premiere Pro, CapCut, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve.