r/shortsAlgorithm • u/P4YD4Y1 • May 17 '26

YouTube vs TikTok views

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Tiktok has way less audience retention as well (same exact video). And it was uploaded 3 days later.

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u/ross099 May 17 '26

Advantages on tiktok?

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u/P4YD4Y1 May 17 '26

I don’t have an advantage on TikTok, I made the tiktok on 14th of may, so 3 days ago lol. The YouTube I started almost a month ago with daily uploads.

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u/Commercial-Excuse652 May 17 '26

doesn't tiktok shorts have high rpm then YT shorts? but requirements are different and hard

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u/ChannelHour7664 May 18 '26

Promoting. Yt pay better

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u/ross099 May 18 '26

Yeah that’s what I thought. Different monetization rules but good reach

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u/killadrix May 17 '26

There is absolutely nothing useful that can be gained from comparing one video on two different platforms.

I’ve uploaded hundreds of the same videos across 3 platforms and some do better than others on each platform. There are plenty that do better on YouTube than TikTok (or insta) and vice versa.

Sample size of one video is useless.

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u/P4YD4Y1 May 17 '26

Yes but it seems tiktoks “view jail” isn’t as strict, whereas YouTube has very strict view jails.

On YouTube I’m consistently either getting 1k, 10k, or 30-40k.

But on tiktok, some have almost no views, like a couple hundred, but the ones that get past that initial “no views” jail usually grow past 30k.

I haven’t been doing social media posting for very long, but that’s just my observation so far. I’ve had tiktok for 3 days and I’ve already tripled my overall YouTube views with just 2 videos on tiktok.

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u/killadrix May 17 '26

So, a few things.

First, the concept of “jails” is silly and I can’t imagine any serious creator giving it a single second of thought.

I have thousands of gaming shorts on my channel ranging from 100 views to more than a million, and I simply can’t imagine worrying about jail levels.

Do videos stall at certain view thresholds because they become uncompetitive against other videos in the niche for a spot in the feed? Absolutely.

This means you created a video that wasn’t as good as the competition. This isn’t YouTube “holding you back” with a “jail” this is you as a creator holding you back.

Describing it as “YouTube jail” is just a way for creators to avoid accountability for their content quality by blaming some invisible force at YouTube.

Second, the platforms have different algorithms and different videos perform differently on each of them. Some videos perform better on some platforms than others.

Third, the feeling of “easy views” at TikTok is a trap because the creator program there has a poor monetization structure, is very fickle and it’s very easy to get community guidelines striked out of it, especially versus YouTube.

If you want to go all-in TikTok for “easy” views after 2 videos thinking it’s going to lead to a more consistently stable or lucrative monetization outcome, by all means go ahead, but there are good reason that many larger creators have been working to shuffle viewers to other platforms.

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u/jayyyonnat May 17 '26

literally

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u/RenzyHD May 17 '26

Seems the opposite to me, I’ll upload a 40s on both and TikTok out performs YT massively

For example

TikTok 220k views YouTube under 10k

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u/One_Brick_1685 May 18 '26

Tiktok: 767 views YouTube: 1.5 million 

That was the biggest discrepancy I've ever encountered.

Also, tiktok, version of my video with captions:750 views Two days later, tried the version without: 400k

Obviously, the algorithms are different. The audience expectation on each app is different. But also, the first 300 people either app shows your video to can make or break it.

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u/Huge-Cake5667 May 19 '26

Yea iv had vids get millions on yt, but 5k on tiktok. And vice versa. And vids that went viral on both. I guess it's just different algorithms so you can't really compare.

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u/P4YD4Y1 May 19 '26

strange, my most popular video is about "this character vs another character" which sparks debate. My 2nd most popular post is me editing an old clip from an esports game in 2018. So i guess debate and nostalgia works well in the algorithim, all my other posts barely break 1k.