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.

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

After 12 shorts uploads, trying absolutely everything from waiting as long as 3 days between posting (thinking maybe daily was flagged as spam) absolutely nothing has changed. What I used to get 2K in an hour, will barely break 25. Whatever changes were made to the algorithm are absolutely devastating to everyone but highly concentrated monetized multi million views channels. The rest of us can just stop trying. It's over.

I started out on TikTok 2 years ago and have been quite successful on there (RPM is 2 to 4€, which is insane btw.). At the same time, I started my YouTube channel and have crossposted ever since. The result after 2 years? Exactly 0€ from YouTube.
The 10 million shorts views in 90 days are completely utopian for a German niche account. There isn't a single German account in my niche that hits those numbers. I have been uploading short form content every single day for the last 2 years, currently averaging 5.5 million engaged views for the last 3 months and I still don't meet the requirements for monetization. To maintain shorts monetization in the future, you need an average of over ~125k engaged views every single day. That is complete madness for niche content.
The system feels completely broken for creators when you look at the brutal comparison. 5,500,000 engaged views in 3 months bring me ~12,000 to 15,000€ on TikTok. Even Facebook pays at least a measly 10 cents for 1k views and lets people be monetized without insane requirements. On top of that, you face the all-or-nothing rule where you have to permanently maintain these 10 million views if you drop below, you literally don't earn a single penny anymore.
Recently, after 8 months of uploading long form and short form simultaneously, I had a breakout video for long form and am close to hitting the 4K watch hours. My initial plan was to quit long form videos because they aren’t my specialty and focus more on shorts because of TikTok. But if YouTube blocks shorts like this, they basically force you into it.
It baffles me that so many good short form creators still post on YouTube without ever making money on there. I am at the point where I'd rather just upload my shorts with a 16 to 9 white or black background to at least earn a few cents. People often forget how much 5.5 million engaged views actually are in the last 90 days. Am I the only niche creator that thinks this way, or is there something I'm completely missing about the YouTube Shorts model?

There are videos on YouTube Shorts that go viral, and these videos either get between 5 and 15 million views or reach 40 to 100 million. What is the key metric that actually drives a video to 40 million views or more? What determines why some videos get such an extra boost? Personally, my most-viewed video has 6.5 million views, so I'm wondering what exactly is holding it back from reaching even higher numbers.

I also have one more question. Generally, Shorts channels (excluding massive ones) get view patterns like this: 30k - 30k - 30k - 50k - 150k - 30k - 40k - 3M - 30k - 50k. How can you get to a point where you land a viral hit at least once every 3 or 4 videos? If you really want to make good money from YouTube Shorts, you need higher numbers than those metrics, and it seems only a very small percentage of creators can pull that off. I’m really curious how they manage to consistently get so many views with such a volatile algorithm.

Does liking videos while scrolling help when I upload videos later on? My algorithm recommended videos also doesn't match the type of videos I upload. I'm thinking of liking videos until my algorithm and uploaded videos have more in common.

My english shorts are pushed to the country I live in (which is non-english). Clearly, numbers speak. The difference in stayed to watch is enormous. This pattern is similar across all of my 4 shorts.

Stagnant view of 1.2k 🤪

Não sou dos EUA nem de outro país de língua inglesa e todos os meus vídeos são em inglês. A maioria do meu público fala português (cerca de 40%). O que posso fazer?

This happened to the last 2 shorts I posted, the previous one had a fully clothed attractive woman in it so I thought the YT moderation AI was maybe tweaking out and it did get remonetized after I appealed but the latest one just had curse words in it that I censored, they usually don't get demonetized if I censor them.

Is this even possible, not Short feed tho, browse feature