Smart YouTube Community

Growth Hacks for Agri Sector

3rd JULY, 2025

5 minutes read

A digital revolution is shaking up the Indian Agriculture industry. The go-to advisory on crop management, inputs, and expert advice for Indian farmers is now the digital media. For agriculture brands, building a strong digital presence that educates, engages, and earns farmers’ trust is essential. At PurpleZone, we help Agri brands achieve their business objectives by designing targeted, data-driven campaigns tailored specifically to the needs of India’s farming community.

As per credible surveys, YouTube is the most popular platform for rural community engagement. Slightly ignored as a platform, YouTube now has suddenly become the go to media, but community building efforts lacked focus from client and agencies.

In this article, we dive deeper into a case study where we hacked YouTube subscriber growth strategy with measurable results for our agricultural client.

YouTube is the GO TO Platform of Rural India

With ample research, the findings are unanimous. YouTube is the fastest growing

and go-to platform for rural India. To quote from a recent survey-

“YouTube’s ad reach in India is estimated at 491 million users, which represents over a third of the country’s total population and about 61% of its internet user base. Given that rural users are outpacing urban users in terms of growth, a substantial portion of YouTube’s audience now comes from rural areas.

Rural internet users in India are particularly drawn to entertainment and communication, with YouTube being a primary source of music, comedy, and educational content. This makes YouTube not just popular, but a central part of digital life for many rural Indians.”

Farmer

Following statistics showcase the exponential growth of YouTube in Rural India

Youtube
Social Media

Creating Awareness about YouTube and Strategies to build the Communities

We have a three fold tasks as a digital agency viz.

Draw attention
to YouTube

Developing robust content strategy to enhance the community

Smart media campaign strategies that leads to the community growth

1

A New Approach to Content Creation

When it comes to content strategy, we use “Outside-In” approach. To explain briefly, it means developing content that target audience wants to consume and not what we want to convey. There is too much content that is “Inside-out” that has been published on YouTube that repels target audience right away. So developing content that is with customer’s interest in mind can create impact. Dishing out product information is not enough any more. As we embrace advanced farming techniques, there is a need for education, farmer query resolutions etc. and this needs to be done in engaging and interactive way. Developing new IPs and branding with targeted communication also works wonders with the audience.

Finding interesting new ways engaging the audience and catching up with the latest trends is a continuous process.

2

Achieving Subscriber Growth with Targeted Campaigns

Our approach to subscriber campaigns not just ensures higher subscribers, but also higher viewership

  • Optimized Content for Greater Visibility
    The videos started with directly addressing the core concerns of the farmers and hooked them and incorporating agriculture-specific keywords to improve search visibility
  • Custom Audience Targeting for Relevancy
    Using custom audiences we were able to specifically target relevant audiences (i.e. farmers) enabling us to make campaigns that resonated with them
  • Educational Focus for Repeat Viewership
    Content delivered actionable crop management tips, encouraging increased watch time and repeat viewership
  • Device Optimization to Match Preferences
    Recognizing farmers’ predominant use of smartphones, videos and channel layouts were optimized for mobile devices, enabling us to attract relevant audiences at a lower cost

All these strategies have been used for a crop nutrition company and results have been phenomenal

Optimized Content for Greater Visibility

+ 15 %

viewership
over 90 days

Custom Audience Targeting for Relevancy

+ 50 %

subscribers
in a month

Educational Focus for Repeat Viewership

+ 16 %

watch time
over 90 days

Device Optimization to Match Preferences

- 48 %

cost per
subscriber

We found out our mojo with right strategy and practical application

It is important not only focus on product promotion, but creation of a meaningful knowledge-sharing community for farmers – one which empowers, educates, engages the viewers, and keep them coming back for more!

Tune in to the next story to know more!

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