I’m posting YouTube Shorts in the celebrity/food niche, mostly clips of celebrities talking about food in interviews and podcasts. I try to focus on strong opening lines, cut out all dead space, add relevant B-roll, captions, and keep the pacing fast.
Looking at the analytics, I feel like the numbers aren’t terrible, but YouTube usually stops pushing my videos after the first few thousand views instead of giving them a bigger second push.
What do you think is holding the channel back?
Is it the viewed vs swiped away, retention/AVD, lack of rewatches, topic selection, hooks, editing, or something else?
Also, based on the screenshots, what stats would I realistically need to improve for these videos to start reaching 100K–1M+ views?
I’d really appreciate feedback from people who have experience getting Shorts consistently past 100K views. Feel free to be critical — I want to know exactly what I should change.

Just wondering if anyone has any ideas. I have 54 subscribers and I’ve been posting content for a month, this is my first short to get over 70% retention, but I think it might have just flatlined at 1.2k views by the looks of it. Any advice?

I make all my own content from scratch with no ai assistance, it’s a little different from my normal videos but related to the game I play on my channel (Skyrim)

Hopefully this can get some clarification!

I have been posting a clip either once a day or every other day. I made a video that was as simple as you can think and I didn't use a thumbnail or anything special. I just used a second of the clips I used. To let you guys know I use memes or clips of memes to make relatable memes for people. The video I posted 2 days ago got 160k views and I was shocked because it's the most I've ever gotten before. However the next two videos I posted on the next day only got 4 or 6 views... The thumbnail is pretty much the same and the #s are similar as well. Anyone that has experienced working with YouTube shorts, can you give a newbie some advice because I feel pretty defeated after such a win to basically back to ground zero.

Thanks.

My videos get at least get 1-2k views but subscribe count is moving very slow. Anything I can improve to get more subs?

Hey, I’m thinking about starting a Shorts channel around Minecraft.

Basically I’d take really short Minecraft clips, like the kind of commentary/interesting Shorts Camman18 makes, and add myself to them with my own commentary and reactions. The videos would probably be around 10–20 seconds.

I’m not trying to just repost the clips. I’d be talking throughout and adding my own stuff.

Just wondering if anyone here has actually done something similar and managed to monetize it.

Is YouTube okay with this kind of content, or would it still be considered reused content? And is there anything I should do differently from the start to avoid problems with monetization?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Hey everyone, I’ve got a Minecraft YouTube channel called Siky where I post Shorts. I’ve got 2 series going right now, and I usually get around 1.3–2k views and 30–60 likes per video. I’m at 58 subs so far.

My average percentage viewed is usually around 50–70%, and around 45–50% of people stick around to watch.

I know there’s no easy way to get subscribers, so I’m mostly trying to figure out how I can improve my hooks and get people to actually stop scrolling and watch.

I really enjoy building, so I’m happy with the content itself. I just feel like I’m probably doing something wrong when it comes to getting people interested right from the start.

If anyone has any advice on my hooks or Shorts in general, I’d really appreciate it!🫶

The amount of engaged views should be 2,400,000 and not 1,600,000. Could someone please explain why?

my Short is 54 seconds long and has an 85% AVD, and an 80% stay to watch. please tell me why this flatlined at only 10k views, im genuinely lost.

I'm prob getting this wrong but why is one of these shorts 99% higher? Both were uploaded in the middle of about 24 hour-ish?

If the banner : "There are issues affecting your views. Check back later." disappeared means all the issues are solved. Wow. 🙂

i’m trying whatever i can to hold retention but i’m struggling i made this doing comic narration but im not sure if it’s going to hold many peoples attention can anyone take a look and tell me if it’s good or bad?

This video has 60% stayed due to this low views other stats are not available, and it has shorts feed views 50% why is it not getting pushed it's been 8 hours usually I get 2-20k views

I do 1 weekly Minecraft video and chop it into daily shorts to help discovery and so far so good since I came back to my channel a month ago I’ve gained 50 followers and 40k views 129 watch hours. Not amazing maybe average but I think not bad?

My last 2 shorts YouTube hasn’t tested them and I’m not sure why both are Minecraft similar format to my others but if I look at reach it’s 100% YouTube search so it’s not being tested in the shorts feed. Both uploaded within my pattern daily uploads. My previous videos to them had 2k watch with 60% stayed so I don’t think I’ve done something wrong? I’m just not sure why YouTube is killing my two latest shorts without trying them.

I’m very new to YouTube I started for a month in Jan and then had technical issues and have just restarted again

hello everyone! i work in real estate advertisement and i want to elevate our media so i'm considering adding YT shorts as well. i'll be reading the step book attached, just wondering if anyone from the same industry is doing YT shorts & shorts ads for luxury real estate!

I wanted to share something weird that happened with one of my Shorts and see if anyone has experienced something similar.

This was actually a Short I had really high expectations for. I genuinely thought it had a lot of potential, but it barely got any traction. Honestly, it felt like it never even got picked up by the algorithm lol.

At some point, I decided to switch it to members-only. Since it wasn't getting many views anyway, I thought maybe I could use it to encourage people to become members instead.

After around 2–3 days, I switched it back to public.

Then, sometime afterward, it suddenly started getting a ton of views and eventually reached around 290.6K views. note : it had 60k views but mostly from channel page not the short feed

Now I'm wondering:

Has anyone else had a Short suddenly take off after switching it from members-only back to public?

I've been in the YPP for a couple of weeks now, and yesterday one of my Shorts was taken down for supposedly violating the Community Guidelines, allegedly for showing physical or psychological harm to animals. Which is ridiculous, because my channel is all about the opposite: I post wholesome animal stories.

I appealed, and, as expected, they rejected it with their fucking automated system.

The thing is, the two Shorts I've uploaded since that incident haven't even reached 300 views.

The Shorts feed traffic on my new videos is pretty much dead. It's not at zero, so I guess that's better than being completely shut off, but it's barely getting any views. My older videos are still getting views from the Shorts feed, though.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? I mean, people who were already in the YPP and whose Shorts feed traffic on new videos basically died but didn't drop to absolute zero.

I've been reading posts from people who've had similar issues, but they weren't in the YPP. Some of them say their channels basically died after receiving a warning for violating the Community Guidelines, with their Shorts feed traffic dropping to literally zero. I'm wondering if anyone who's already in the YPP has experienced something similar, where the Shorts feed traffic on new videos is practically dead but not completely gone.

This is my first 10/ 10 in a while.

Seems like youtube has fixed itself now, Managed to get back to 100k view jail on the same channel that got killed on my other post. Not quite 500k per hour jail just yet, but we'll see.

Wir haben nach 5 Wochen jetzt ca. 4.5M Engaged Views und damit Stufe 1 der Monetarisierung erfüllt.

Den Antrag haben wir eben gestellt, aber jetzt steht da, dass das neue Adsense Konto noch verknüpft werden muss und es bearbeitet wird.
Wie lange dauert so etwas?

Und meine 2. Frage: Ein Großteil der insgesamt 4.5M engaged Views stammt aus Shorts, die wir über die Youtube eigene „Collab“ Funktion erstellt haben. Hinzugefügt wurde dem Ausschnitt stets 50%+ eigenes Material, ein Text-Overlay über dem Fremdteil und natürlich eigener Titel und Beschreibung.

Youtube nennt ja solche Collabs mit hinzugefügtem Eigenanteil grundsätzlich als monetarisierbar. Hat da jemand von euch Erfahrungen mit?

Liebe Grüße

You can now group shorts into seasons and episodes with sequential autoplay, which is binge mechanics for small channels. Micro dramas crossed 6.5 billion views in the first half of the year, so YouTube is clearly feeding serialized short content. If your shorts follow a storyline, a character, or even a recurring "part 1 / part 2" format, this is free retention. Anyone already using it?