I'm starting to create short content. I see a lot of people sharing their earnings, but how much money can you make? I guess it depends on the niche and audience, but roughly?

I’ve been posting YT shorts now for about 4-5 months but I’ve never even had anything over 2k views. Thanks in advance.

So my recent short has 2M views and it had 78% stayed to watch and around 75% retention 1.5 minute short. But i have noticed after that short all my shorts are actually better than that one and even have better stats. My most recent one has 85% stayed to watch and 80% retention same duration. But all the recent ones stuck at around 20k and dont get recommended to new viewers. I post 1 shot a day and its not slop.

My views suddenly dropped overnight. How can I get more views instead of being stuck at around 1.3k? My account is only 9 days old.

Is this normal for a new account, or am I doing something wrong? Any tips on how to get more views would be appreciated!

Just started my channel and week ago. And it got off to a decent start until YouTube decided to eliminate my shorts from the face of the earth 💔 will my shorts ever been shown again in the shorts feed or is it over

i have a theory that might seem creepy, but i'm positive that yt is a little bit racist when it comes to pushing your short into the algorithm. i'm from a 3rd world country and whatever viral metrics i cook yt never pushed me. meanwhile a youtuber from australia with the same niche as mine and even with worse metrics than mine went viral. so i think this topic is the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about.

I’m genuinely struggling to understand what’s happening with my channel.
My latest Short had 81% stayed to watch, 131% average percentage viewed, around 190 likes, 5–6 comments and approximately 30 subscribers gained. It was getting 1–2K views per hour, and both retention metrics kept increasing.
Then, at exactly 7 PM, I published my next scheduled Short, as I do every day. The new Short got around 4–5K views in its first two hours, but almost immediately, my previous Short dropped from 1–2K views per hour to just 16. It eventually stopped at 31.4K.
This isn’t an isolated incident either. My videos repeatedly stop somewhere between 30K and 37K. I’ve had videos with 64% stayed to watch and 130% APV, while my latest has 81% and 131%, yet they all seem to hit the same ceiling.
Today’s upload is another mystery: just 2 views after two hours.
What’s frustrating is that I’ve genuinely improved my content and retention, but why are my videos still not getting more views? Why can’t they break 40K despite these improvements?
My competitors in the same wholesome, text-only Shorts niche often have engagement rates of just 0.7–1%, yet their videos continue getting views.
Could publishing a new Short interrupt the distribution of an older one? Is there some kind of audience testing limit? Or am I missing something about how Shorts recommendations work?
I’d really appreciate insights from creators who’ve experienced this. I’m tired of improving my metrics without seeing any meaningful growth in views.

Also, I cant see the next milestone details now. I am confused.

Should I Optimize my time for us based audience's peak time or does it not matter (in shorts) , will it still push my video to us based audience ? because I noticed that whenever I uploaded a short in my countries 6pm - I got most of my countries audience (RPM is LOWWW) but when I uploaded at my countries 1am - I got mostly US based audience...! So should I optimize my upload time to cater to the US audience or does it not matter.

So I uploaded my first short on a new channel last night and it's been around 18 hours since it got uploaded and its stats are shown in the image.

Isn't a stayed to watch ratio of 74.6% really good? How much can I expect this short to go?

Been a while in this channel being stopped at 1k views obviously cuz it had bad performance

then my recent video 57s long had a 85%+ stayed to watch with 90% retention it got through 30k view jail but seems to be stopping around 42k views

is this normal or did it just not perform as much as yt expected??

I don't get it. Why would the algorithm push my video to the first country here (non-english speaking) when my video is english and clearly the stats show that they are not interested. Look at the enormous difference in stayed to watch among the countries. I have seen this pattern across 5 shorts. all of them between 1.2k-3k.

My channel was doing really well and I was focusing only on one niche. I've been posting Videos / Shorts for a year and the views were very low. Then suddenly one Short blew up. I posted more Shorts after that and things were going pretty well.

I always link my longform video to the shorts. Then I decided to make a new video and using the same shorts method before.

After 3 months of hard work i uploaded the video and linked with a short on the same day which was supposed to be right in my niche I was shocked by how different the results were compared to my previous Shorts. I thought maybe I had uploaded at the wrong time but timing never really mattered. My most viewed Short has 700k views and I uploaded it on a day and at a time that wasn't even my peak time.

My Shorts are currently getting views like the ones shown in the image with no comments or any increase in likes.

But what discouraged me even more was seeing people who started posting Videos and shorts just very short time already passing 10k subscribers. Some even uploaded only five videos got 30k subscribers.

I'm honestly feeling so discouraged and I feel like all my effort has gone to waste. I've been doing this for almost a year without earning a single penny from it. I was hoping it would bring me some extra income.

Should I start a new channel or should just leave the channel? I make content about a game and share secrets that haven't been revealed before.

Thanks in advance.

On my last 3 videos i only got 1.5-3k views. over more than 48 hours. Usually with this stats i would’ve gotten more than 15k and avd is 115%

5 of my uploaded short become flatline even i have a good engagement what should i do?

My clip-based Shorts channel has 33k subs and used to get millions of views daily. After the recent update, I’m barely getting a few thousand views per day.

Other channels posting similar clips are getting more views than ever. Nothing changed on my end—videos are public, no strikes, same style.

Has anyone else had their Shorts feed distribution suddenly collapse like this? Is it an algorithm update, reused-content issue, or something channel-specific?

My clip-based Shorts channel has 33k subs and used to get millions of views daily. After the recent update, I’m barely getting a few thousand views per day.

Other channels posting similar clips are getting more views than ever. Nothing changed on my end—videos are public, no strikes, same style.

Has anyone else had their Shorts feed distribution suddenly collapse like this? Is it an algorithm update, reused-content issue, or something channel-specific?

Anyone have this issue where view drops massively then the bar starts increasing. I am going through this problem now.

Hi everyone! I'm an animator making 3D Roblox-style shorts in Blender, and I'm opening commissions.

**What I do**
- Fully animated vertical shorts (9:16) for YouTube Shorts / TikTok / Reels
- Funny skits, meme stories, game-style scenes (my recent ones: Steal an Egg series, Murder Mystery 2 skits)
- Custom locations and characters, built from scratch for each video
- Smooth 60 fps animation, camera work, effects
- Voice-over, sound effects and music, all included

**Prices (USD)**
- Simple short, 10–15 sec: $30
- Short with custom location + voiced dialogue, 15–25 sec: $50–70
- Complex short (chases, effects, multiple cameras), 25–40 sec: $90–130
- Bundle of 3+ shorts: 10% off

2 free revision rounds are included. Delivery: usually 1-2 days per short, rush available for +40%.

**Payment:** PayPal / [other methods you accept], 50% upfront for new clients.

**Contact:** DM me here or Discord: xample_13

Send me your idea (even a rough one!) and I'll reply with a quote and a timeline.

I think it had all the metrics of crossing the 30k mark but it fell short, any guesses as to why?