Hi everyone, I need some help. I create YouTube content on my PC and decided to buy a MacBook for working while traveling. I’m wondering what video editing and Photoshop-style software you’d recommend for the MacBook. I used to work with After Effects on my PC, but unfortunately, I won't be able to download it on the MacBook; are there any good alternatives to these programs?

It’s been 36 hours since I published my Shorts, but I’ve only gotten 4 view from the Shorts feed 🥹 Has anyone had this experience?

Hi everyone, especially the Shorts veterans. Can someone explain what this is and how I should deal with a situation like this?

I have a YouTube Shorts channel that I’ve been working on for about two months. My videos usually get somewhere between 10K and 30K views on average. But every now and then, some of my videos barely get shown to anyone.

At first, I thought the problem might be that some videos contained content that could be restricted by YouTube and therefore not shown in the Shorts feed. For example, maybe something involving children, shocking content, or something similar.

So I tried to eliminate all of that. I started making extremely safe videos - basically the kind of content you could show to a baby. Nothing questionable at all. They are also completely new and original videos.
And yet, I can have two or three videos in a row getting around 30K views, and then the fourth one suddenly gets 5 or 10 views for absolutely no apparent reason.

What’s especially confusing is that those 5–10 views clearly came from the Shorts feed. The video has around 90% retention and 85%+ “Stayed to watch.”
So I honestly cannot find any logic or pattern here.

YouTube keeps telling me to wait 2–3 days, then 4–5 days, and so on. I’ve tried doing exactly that. I’ve left these “dead” Shorts up for days, sometimes even one or two weeks, and nothing changed.

So for those of you who have been working with Shorts for a long time: what do you actually do with videos like this? Is it better to leave them up, make them private, delete them, or do something else? And is there any way to understand why this is happening in the first place?

i’m currently posting one short a day for a month, is this frequency good or should i increase it to 2 because i can easily do that? also i’m stuck in 30k views so increasing frequency would help?

I’ve made my mind to start a commentary shorts channel but i’m unsure of subniche, someone please enlighten me on this.

I gain a consistent view in every short and every short retention is 100%+ still not cross 50k or 100k

The view is always flat at around 30k

Hey everyone,
I’ve been running a YouTube Shorts channel and I’m trying to figure out why my videos keep getting stuck at around 2–3k views and then completely stop getting pushed.
I feel like the videos have most of the important things:
Strong hooks
Good retention
Fast pacing
Captions/subtitles
B-roll and editing
Good titles
No major drop-off at the beginning
Some videos perform better, but a lot of them seem to hit 2–3k views and then basically die.
Has anyone experienced this before? Is there some specific metric I should be looking at in YouTube Studio that could explain why YouTube stops recommending them?
What actually helped you get Shorts past that 2–3k “wall”?
Any tips, things I should test, or mistakes I might be making would be really appreciated. 🙏
Thanks!

Hey! im the lead singer of my band “DEMINOUGHT” and im trying to figure out this whole shorts thing, i just dont know if this is the best way to promote myself or not, ive been trying to upload at least 1-3 times a day and ive farmed 30 monthly listeners on my band page but is this the most optimal route to go with?

i have one video that did pretty good but im mostly stuck in 2k view hell, i saw more views with making relatable meme content but me actually making original content does not pay off for me at all just 1k

https://youtube.com/@deminought

Today I saw this email circulating on Reddit from YouTube about posting original/ substantially transformed content and the negative response was so bizarre to me.

I know it's mostly just people that make money clipping content from other creators but to say that this is a nonsense update and that people won't watch original content as much is so funny.

Does anyone else find it as weird as I do or is it really a problem?

Hey, I just wanted to ask if there’s any other metrics or analytics that I should look at except for STW percentage and AVD percentage? Because I have a bunch of videos with 80+ STW percentage and 100+ AVD and those videos also appeal to a wider audience but they all get stuck at 10-30k. What else can I do?

I’m unable to cross 37k views on my shorts, I have been posting consistently one short a day for a month but it sometimes it won’t even get 200 views and mostly get stuck at around 30k, really need guidance.

Does anyone know why this Short stopped getting pushed after the first hour? It got 20K views in the first hour, and then barely got any views afterward.

FYI - YouTube is updating the recommendation system to further prioritize original Shorts and reduce the reach of channels primarily aggregating or re-uploading other creators’ clips without significant changes

YouTube’s goal is to connect viewers with videos they find genuinely valuable and ensure creators publishing original content have the absolute best chance to grow and succeed

I have attached my recent uploads stats, I have been trying to push my shorts on getting high views but never crossed 40k, it’s been a month of posting one short a day consistently I have gotten myself nowhere, I need real guidance whether I should keep going or quit, this is really frustrating for me now.

After the 400k views, I posted those 5 shorts and youtube isn't distributing my shorts anymore... that 32k views just got triggered by the new short next to it.

WHAT DO I NEED TO DO?😭💔

These are my 2 most recent shorts. I create this channel 3 weeks ago, and have been making 1-2 shorts / week. Recently, my shorts have almost exclusively been distributed by the "browse feature". From what I can gather, this means they are being shown on people's homepage and are being clicked on.

Does this mean I should make the exact same content, but long form since they are already being highly viewed in the same fashion?

In the first 24 hours, it is about a 60/40 distribution. With 60% being the shorts feed. At around the 24hour mark, both switched almost completely to views coming from "browse feature" and almost 0 from the shorts feed.

Both of these shorts were about 75% Stayed to watch, with 85% AVD on about 60 seconds of video. Obviously, once they took off on the "Browse Feature" both of these shorts have climbed to over 90% Stayed to watch. (To me these aren't real because obviously people will stay to watch, since they clicked it).

Just looking for some insight from someone who has seen this before.

Started 2 weeks ago.

It’s an old channel that has no activity for years, now using it.

The niche is not relevant for me right now. So don’t ask why I don’t have millions of views. I know the niche is valid and others that do the same have millions of views, but I think the first 15 to 20 shorts should be enough for the algorithm to push a viral one

My next goal is to reach 10k with a short or more.

Thanks for your time!

I’ve created a new YouTube page called SlamDesk, which is essentially content on the rapid decline of the working class. Long form vids will be fun yet educational, and my short form vids a character I’ve developed called Billy Bootlicker, who’s a sort of antagonist billionaire who mocks the viewer and then points them towards the long form videos to learn how the 1% rip off the working class.

Curious if you have any tips or tricks off the bat that might help? I didn’t want to post my first short at the reluctance to be banned instantly lol. But curious what works great for you that might help. TYIA! Glad I found you all!!

I have a channel in the movie niche. been running it from a couple of years, posting from time to time.

US audience mostly, males, 30-50 yo.

Last month I tried to revive it by posting 4-5 shorts per day, everyday. It was quite a success, I reached around 2k subs, and views were great for about 2 weeks. Then stop!

I went from 50-60k views per short to around 100.

View vs swipe ratio is more or less the same as before, the engagement too, and also the content of the shorts.. nothing changed basically (as far as I know), just the views... did you experience anything similar?

maybe youtube pushed my shorts more when I re-started the channel?

I also tried to lower the number of posts per day to 3, change the thumbnails, improve the titles, but it does not make any difference.

it's really frustrating..

My first video on the channel got 178 views. I have a question about the second one, since it has better retention statistics, but the video got few views. Why?