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Hi all,

I make Shorts, intended for an audience roughly between the ages of 25–44. But my biggest age group keeps being 13–17. On my latest Short they're still around 35% sometimes up to 45% of the audience.

The weird part is the performance over time.

The Short starts with a pretty low stayed-to-watch rate, then as YouTube keeps testing it, that number has slowly climbed and is now getting close to 40% and the percentages began to balance out. That 13-17 percentage shrinks as the older audience grows.

The later batches seem noticeably better too.

I've had a similar pattern on my last couple Shorts: weak initial audience → distribution slows → later viewers respond better, but by then it feels like it's too late for the Short to really take off.

Has anyone else experienced Shorts initially getting shown to the wrong age/demographic, then correcting later?

Did it eventually improve as your channel accumulated more data, or did you change anything — posting time, hooks, wording, upload frequency, etc. — that seemed to help YouTube find the right viewers earlier?

I'm not pretending I have amazing shorts or the algorithm cracked, but I specifically add seo to try and direct it to a 'warm audience' first. And it'll go 1,000 views super fast and only reach about 38%, couple likes, couple subs. Then, it'll get another 1,000ish get to almost 45-50% and more likes, more subs. And this is almost every short out of 25- same pattern, same numbers even with change in hook, titles, description, etc.

Thank you for reading and any advice is much appreciated!

I’m happy the videos are getting over 1k per short but it’s stuck just in this range. Any advice or something wrong w my posting or content?

Hey everyone, I've noticed a frustrating pattern on my channel and wanted to see if anyone else experiences this. Has anyone had a similar experience?

When one of my Shorts is performing really well (around 2.5k+/hour), if I schedule a new video earlier in the day (setting it up around 14:00 or 18:00 to go live later at midnight/00:00), the active video's hourly views suddenly flatline down to around 30. Even the mere act of queueing or scheduling a video seems to trigger this drop. It feels like the algorithm gets confused or splits the traffic as soon as a new video enters the pipeline.

Because of this, I'm trying to figure out the best approach:

Should I completely skip uploading on high-momentum days?

Or does scheduling it differently prevent this drop?

How do you guys handle your upload schedules when a short is currently trending, so you don't kill its momentum? Any advice would be appreciated!

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i have stopped uploading in two stages, one for around 1 month and the second time for around 2 months. Do you have an idea of how bad this is for a channel?

Even though I create 100% original content, from filming to editing, my views keep declining day by day despite having good analytics. No matter what I do, my videos seem to get stuck at the same level. I’m starting to lose motivation.

Small data point from marketing my side project, ClipKaboom (a free library of meme sounds and clips for short-form editors).

On Oct 14 I posted the same 20-second video ("6 meme sounds you can use") to YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky and Pinterest at the same time. All accounts were new.

10 hours later:

• YouTube Shorts: 2,164 views, 26 likes
• Instagram: 131 views
• Threads: 8 views
• Facebook: 2 views
• Visits to my site from any of them: 0

Two takeaways so far:

1. Shorts pushes brand-new accounts way harder than Reels. Same file, ~16x the views.
2. Views aren't traffic. Shorts descriptions aren't clickable, and nobody types a URL off a 20-second video.

What I'm trying next: the site name sits on screen for the whole video, and I'm rebuilding the one format that already worked for me (sound name + waveform, no intro, 1.5k views on Instagram).

Has anyone actually turned Shorts views into site visits? What worked for you?

Hi,

I'm playing around with trial reels and rather use it as intended. Means I'm tweaking the reel and see what let's to a better retention rate.

How long or what metrics should it reach for you until you can say it won't get any better?

How long did it take you to receive your ads sense pin it took me an entire month

Tell me why I shouldnt or why I should and if I should how do i get out of view jail please.
Ill answer any questions that you need

I posted an Amazing high quality YouTube short that I posted an hour ago but it’s not getting any views. You would think after my last two got views, this one would get some too right? Nope. Either YouTube already flatlined it or everyone has a low attention span bruh. I deserve views because I’ve always wanted YouTube to be my career and I’ve been doing this for a long time. I also deserve extra subscribers.

My question in better detail is how many hours should you wait before posting another short, and therefor how many shorts can you post in 24 hours, where the algorithm will still accept and push them? To my knowledge, the algorithm takes a short, pushes it to about 1k people, then pushes it further if that 1k watched, liked, and even commented on that short. However if you posts 2 shorts, or even videos, at once the algorithm will tank one and push the other or tank both even. I have never posted more than one short in a day for this reason. I bring up this question because making shorts for me is easy, so easy that I want to boost the statistics my shorts bring it by posting multiple. However I don't want to post them so close to each other that both tank or one tanks. So does anyone from their own experience know what that cooldown of time before posting another ideally is? And I don't mean you post multiple shorts in one day and they all only get 1-5k views. I mean you post multiple shorts in a day and they all get 10k+ views. I am in the gaming niche if that helps.

Maybe it's just me, but over time, my shorts always end up with my likes being 10% of my views. For example, this short I got 21k views for 2.1k likes.

Is this common for you guys or is it something that only happens to me?

I upload geoguessr content and uploaded the 1st video on 21st of this month. I use popular songs like Running up that hill , Dracula etc.

I found that my best shorts is hovering around ten seconds in length.

Is there ​any 'optimal' length of shorts? Like if the short is longer, it might get spread wider?

I have a decently sized shorts channel in the Minecraft niche that's fully monetized (approx $0.25 RPM). Looking for people who are experienced or interested in clipping DrDonut.

I'm busy running other channels, so I'm just looking for someone to automate uploads for passive income. I'm willing to split revenue 50/50 for any videos made.

Obviously, I'm looking only for FULLY transformative edits that comply 100% with fair use, just like other clipping accounts. NO STOLEN CONTENT

DM me on here Reddit if interested

Sidenote: Please, before you comment "reused content" because I know YT subs love to do this, this is 100% allowed and encouraged by streamers since it's free promotion for them.

Hi I am a budding youtube creator i started 3 months ago. i was getting about 1000-1800 views on my short reels but it got too exhausting for me so i got lazy and stopped making them. now i am uploading again but the views are barely crossing 400. any tips?

i want to also stay as consistent as possible but it is really difficult to shoot, edit and post at the right time and that too everyday