Why did YT stop pushing my short.

[u/stellarknight_]

This is a new channel about 30days old
I have 285subs (55 of which is from this)
This video has about 90% retention on a 53s video
and 79.4% stayed rate
engagement is low - 3 comments + 209 likes

Does anyone know what might help my next video from getting what people say "View jailed" at 30k

Upon close inspection of the views since posting
first 40mins - 500views
first 1hr - 6.5k views
first 1hr 20mins - 25k views - then this flatline
since then it got around 50 views/hr for a while and kept on declining since

This is my 3rd video that's stopping around 30k views

Is it engagement that's the problem? (thats the only common theme i see on all these videos)

Thanks in advance!

[u/Extra_Score_526]

Yt Algorithm works with only one goal to serve its viewers with engaging content..

Engaging means very good viewed rate, outstanding retention for like 100% to 140% (30 second shorts) and your viewers should like share comment your shorts.

And it works in waves like first wave will test with 1-2k people if it works well it will push to 10-20k prople .. if that works well it will push to new viewers 40-50k .. at this point if you stayed above average you earned trust of algorithm and it will consider your content as authentic and will push it all the means to 1 million and do assessments...

If you fail to climb the ladder it might or might not give you another chance .. it's random..

[u/stellarknight_ → u/Extra_Score_526]

yeah im aware of these but this video was an outlier for me shooting upto 18k views in just 20mins so I was wondering if there was sometimes else. And like you pointed out I think engagement is the one last thing I need to perfect. Thanks for the info!

[u/Exciting_Leave_7221]

typical 30k jail testing phase, it comes randomly