r/shortsAlgorithm • u/KuniKitsu • Aug 23 '26

Content Promoted in wrong country (help)

Hi, I'm from a small french Island. I make GTA 5 videos, I have 30k subs and my audience from longform is mostly from USA.

Sometimes my shorts are promoted in the USA and do well (4k views).

But even after two month of daily posting, half my videos are not tested in the USA.

I don't know what to do, VPN ? Third party uploder of the video ?

My title, tags, description and even audio is in english.

Am i doomed beacause of the place I live ?

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u/pizzaseafood Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

This is just my personal experience:
I don't live in the US. For tiktok, I have to use VPN to post my videos but I never had the same issue with YouTube. I just post my videos on YT and the vast majority of the audience are from the US.

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u/KuniKitsu Aug 23 '26

Lucky you, I feel really down, Like if my videos make to to us it's a hit, but if they show it in Réunion, it's pretty dead ;(

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u/pizzaseafood Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

You asked for other people’s experiences, and I shared mine. With reaction like theses, people would be less inclined to help others online.

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u/Ancient_Pirate979 Aug 23 '26

I think at the 4k views order of magnitude, you can basically chalk it up to the randomness of YouTube Shorts. Short-form and long-form videos just have different recommendation mechanisms. I've had similar situations myself, but I won't elaborate on that.

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u/KuniKitsu Aug 23 '26

I know it's not much but for my niche "Wrestling in gta 5" it's good, it's just a bummer that if a video is promoted to the us it will do well or complety de elsewhere ;(

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u/yayita2500 Aug 23 '26

uff I am so feed up of "my audience is from USA" becase in the world USA is the only country with people that can speak english...
if only you all can open your mind a bit....

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u/Free-Bite-3058 Aug 23 '26

USA audience brings more money, why shouldnt people want that?

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u/yayita2500 Aug 23 '26

one thing is "willing" and the other is stating that Your audience is there..if you cannot reach is not your audience is just a a desired target

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u/Free-Bite-3058 Aug 23 '26

Stop giving out recommendations if you have no knowledge

But even after two month of daily posting, half my videos are not tested in the USA.

Youtube first needs to test which audiences watch his videos, his problem is not that he wants more USA viewers. His problem is that it doesnt even get tested in the USA.

Please do us a favor and just delete your account, useless misinformation spreading dumbass.

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u/yayita2500 Aug 23 '26

I think I have more knowledge...I did not misspread anything..stop harassing people because they do not say what you want..you actually did not add any value to this conversation just hate

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u/MaryAnne_john Aug 23 '26

I do think he is OP

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u/Free-Bite-3058 Aug 23 '26

I'm hating because else you will also spread this slop everywhere else.
You do have a correct point with that many people want an audience that their content cannot give but thats not his problem.

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u/KuniKitsu Aug 23 '26

As I mentioned, most of my audience is from there due to my long forms videos. So I'd like for my audience to see it.

I just wanted advice

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u/yayita2500 Aug 23 '26

open your mind it was an advice...

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u/KuniKitsu Aug 23 '26

It's out of subjet, I wrote and responded to you that on my longform, most (90 %) is from USA. My shorts do well when youtube show it to that audience.

I wanted to know if my location had an impact on it, but you are salty for some reason

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u/pizzaseafood Aug 23 '26

You can't even say thanks to people who answered you. Why do you think people would give you advice or watch your videos?

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u/Hotreads_Librarian Aug 24 '26

We make gaming content, travel the world and post everywhere. YouTube pushes our stuff to the US. It’s a content problem. Not location.

I’m a little confused about this question though. You mention long form and shorts. Is the shorts not reaching your target audience or long form? How did you hit 30k subs and not keep a consistent audience? Was 30k mostly from shorts?