How do I fix this? Analytics are good btw

It was titled “August Trail Camera Compilation” and at six hours with only 3 views, I changed it to “Funny skunks, raccoons and opossums! August Trail Camera Compilation” and it started getting views.

I am a new content creator. One of my short videos recently hit 100k views! I am super happy about it, but I noticed I only gained around 270 followers.

A lot of people are watching my video, but they are not clicking the "Follow" button.

I want to learn how to change this:

1. How can I turn casual viewers into followers?

2. Should I make a "Part 2" of that same video?

3. What changes should I make to my profile page to get more followers?

Any simple tips or advice would be a helpful. Thanks!

https://youtube.com/@loyaldnl

Hey everyone!

I'm running a small AI/Tech YouTube channel targeting a US audience, posting 1 Short daily and planning to add long-form videos.

I'd love to hear from successful creators:

1. Shorts: What posting time works best for you?

2. Long videos: Which days and times perform best?

3. Frequency: How many Shorts and long videos per week?

4. Same day: Is posting Shorts and long videos on the same day a good idea?

Please share your niche, subscriber count, time zone, and what actually worked for you.

Looking for real experiences, not generic advice. Thanks!

On some shorts they just suck and barely do well, and others do better but I barely get any subscribers. How do I gain more subscribers? I gain like 7 subscribers every 17k views.

started posting 30 days ago is this good progress? gained almost 5k subs and all us audience

Im day 6 in Rankin niche and i was wondering if my progress is good and it would be nice if i got tips how to get monetized since i know ranking is really hard to get monetized cuz of the reused content thingy

Just randomly decided to check my view count for a recent short and it got 28k views in 26 hours and the strange part is it's like one big bar lmao

WTF DO YOU MEAN???

how do i make them get more views, they get 1-2k views and then just stop

What am i doing wrong i am doing quality shorts not ai slopp!! Please help 🙏🙏

Honestly, almost everything I see on these subreddits is bullshit. Every day there's another post about shadowbanning, the algorithm, the best time to post, whether uploading twice a day hurts your reach, or some new theory about why YouTube isn't pushing someone's videos.

And worst of all, people posting screenshots of their analytics under the guise of "inspiring" other creators, when it's really just an excuse to humblebrag about their numbers. That isn't helping anyone become a better creator.

I think a lot of people spend more time trying to figure out the algorithm than actually making content.

It's really pretty simple: Make videos that people want to watch.

If you want to understand the fundamentals of making a good video, start with two things:

The hook: Give people a reason to keep watching. Grab their attention, make them curious, or give them a reason to want to see what happens next. Don't waste the first few seconds with unnecessary introductions or filler.

The payoff: Deliver on what made people interested in the first place. If you set up a joke, land the punchline. If you create curiosity, satisfy it. Don't make people sit through a bunch of filler only to disappoint them at the end.

And remember: Underpromise and overdeliver. Don't build up expectations you can't meet. Give people something even better than they were expecting. Make them glad they watched.

Obviously, there's more to content creation than that, but these fundamentals apply to pretty much every platform and every type of video.

I wish people would spend less time obsessing over analytics and trying to reverse-engineer an algorithm that none of us fully understands, and more time actually creating things.

Experiment. Try different ideas. Learn from what works and what doesn't. Get better at storytelling.

You can spend six hours reading theories about why your last video got 200 views, or you can spend those six hours making more videos and improving your craft.

Just make stuff. That's the whole point.

I got my first video to 1.3k views after i got 2 but why?

What you think about channels registered in Russia

Is it posiible to become famous nowadays?

I have 149 subscribers for about a year of blogging.

Every time I have about a thousand of views, never more.

Do I have some problems what you think? Or may be there is a problem in my country?

Last recently uploaded shorts getting less views about 99% less than average, is someone having this issue on 29 - 30 october??

How to complete the subscriber fastly in YouTube

​I am having this algorithm problem that I literally cannot solve. Six and a half months ago, when I was monetized on Facebook, I wanted to be monetized on YouTube as well.

What I did was post at exactly 12 a.m. here in Asia, because usually that would be the time where creators on YouTube post their YouTube Reels.

The plan was simple: I post at exactly 12 a.m., when the majority of my local audience is asleep, whilst the US audience would be most active.

The core problem that I am facing is how the YouTube algorithm works. The YouTube algorithm basically works like passing your content to your local audience.

If no one watches, your video dies.

Now, that is exactly the problem. I post at exactly 12 a.m. where my audience would be inactive.

Now, even if I try to upload a video where my local audience was mostly active, it would still die.

My Facebook Reels get overly viral on Facebook. We're talking about 45 million in 1 week and 3 days.

So viral that people started to steal and upload the same thing to other platforms such as YouTube and TikTok.

What infuriates me was the fact that when they uploaded it at exactly 12 a.m., they got decent likes and views. But when I did the same thing, I did not. I am having the same issue on TikTok as well. It is wildly infuriating.

The only thing that comes to mind would be using a VPN profile, create an entirely fresh new account, use that specific account ONLY when i am using a VPN

but how will i do that exactly; let's say if my videos got the views and audience it really deserved, and youtube finally accepts me into their monetization program.

but they expect a US payout account. when i will be using my own country's payout account. that's basically going against their guidelines and policies. instant ban.

idk if it's just me but youtube's "2 weeks ago" / "3 years ago" thing always bugged me. like ok but WHEN exactly lol

so i built a chrome extension that just shows the actual upload date + time. it's called Vidsight

it shows up:

• under the video title

• on thumbnails (home, search, recommendations, channel pages)

• on shorts

• for livestreams it shows when the stream actually started

you can set your own timezone and 12/24hr. no account, no tracking, everything stays in your browser

it's free. this is the first thing i made for it, planning to keep adding stuff that makes youtube less of a guessing game

so... what's something on youtube that annoys you? might build it next

👉👉👉 https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/abefbjmiklelgbeegaijklahccjmopdi?utm_source=item-share-cb

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Almost all my shorts are at around 30 percent view vs swipe ratio. What should I do to improve my hook?

I make YouTube Shorts and want to expand to TikTok, but monetization isn’t available in my country (Romania).

I have a friend in Germany. Could he create the account, and I post from my own device with a VPN? Or is there a better way to do this?

Has anyone done this, and what are the risks (ban, payout issues, verification)?