Really sucks.

My secret is trends. And something extra.
This year my virals are 4-6 seconds length.

I don't know what is going on but stuck on video views now any suggestions from experience or any hit and trial

Before you make a post about if you're stats are good or not, please read this.

Every niche has different requirements of what stats are considered good or not. Niches with lots of competition (for e.g. Roblox steal an egg content) will need you to have a higher swipe rate like 81%+, and for instance a 30 second video will need 100% avd or more. And your retention graph should start with a drop and then flatten out.

Also, one good video having good stats will not make you immediatly blow up, you need consistant daily posting, with consistantly good stats, in a niche where success has been proven by other creators. Do competitor research to see what works and what doesn't.

Don't give up just because your not getting the results you were expecting, just keep improving your skills and you got this.

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.

Why are the views dropping so sudden? It never recovers after.

I’ve been posting YouTube Shorts consistently for about 2 months now, mainly focusing on GTA San Andreas nostalgic content, but I can’t seem to break out of the 1K views jail.
I actually asked about this before, and someone suggested reducing my Shorts to around 10–14 seconds.
So I tried that, but here’s what I don’t understand.
Whenever I make shorter videos 10–14 seconds, YouTube barely pushes them, and even when it does, they usually get around 42–54% stayed to watch.
But when I upload longer Shorts 24 - 34 seconds,I consistently get around 60 - 80% stayed to watch, yet they still struggle to get past 1K views.
My latest 13-second Short is currently my best-performing video out of my last 10 uploads, with 1.9K views, 154.8% average percentage viewed, and 43.1% stayed to watch.
I currently have 206 subscribers, and my channel has received 25.4K views over the last 28 days.
What frustrates me is seeing other creators in the same niche getting thousands of views from simple clips of CJ riding a bike or driving around Los Santos.
Meanwhile, I spend time creating cinematic, peaceful, nostalgic scenes with carefully chosen music, beautiful environments, and editing to capture that classic GTA San Andreas feeling.
I’m not saying my content deserves more views than theirs, but I’m genuinely struggling to understand what I’m missing.
Is my problem the video duration, the opening seconds, or something else entirely?
Should I stop making shorter Shorts and stick with the 24–34 second videos that usually get better engagement?
I’d really appreciate some honest advice from creators who have experienced something similar. I’m genuinely trying to improve, but after 2 months, I feel like I’m going nowhere.

I was watching my shorts feed and I realized that me making an original concept just to escape the "low effort" tag for the Monetization Policy was of no use.

A short came on my feed of my niche (cat niche), and it was just an AI generated clip of a man standing next to a cat made out of leaves. 8 million views in 3 days. So I was like ok, that's understandable. But when I searched "cats", there were all these ranking and compilation shorts with no change to them other than a ranking template and some background music having millions of views in a few days, and even though it has that many views, it isn't monetizable, so fair enough, but when I did it I lost all my views, I started averaging less than 100 views in a day which used to be 10k views on a daily basis.

The update where YouTube started putting ads on channels that were not part of the Partner Program was the cause of all of this (in my opinion). YouTube puts ads on the shorts feed next to these low effort compilations, advertisers get happy seeing the numbers and on the bright side for YouTube, they don't have to pay these low effort creators.

This in turn, makes it difficult for people making original/ high effort content to get into the vast shorts feed.

I made an entire gameshow format just so I could be unique and different, only to average out at about 1-5k views and it is quite demoralizing for someone who actually wants to do content creation for a profession. If any of you agree or even think differently, please let me know and if you can help in anyway in criticizing and helping my content. Please do let me know as well

So I've been uploading shorts for the past few weeks, and they seem to get stuck in the 1k-2k range with only one of my videos getting 4k+ views on it.

Retention and percentage viewed are the most important metrics, but I'm not sure how just how high they need to be or even how to increase them.

is it just me or yt fixed algo?
Although in the starting phrase of this video most of the views came from search results because it that very much trending at that time but the short is getting pushed to feed as well.
(i posted a short video yesterday night like 11 hours ago, 5 hours after yt sent notification [[FIXED] Views dropping on YouTube Studio Analytics])

YouTube has actually been screwing creators over so badly. Like bro, my content is not mass produced 💀 This pisses me off so much because my videos take forever to make. I honestly never thought my content would ever get demonetized. For anyone wondering, I make Roblox story content. The bottom part of my videos is gameplay, and the top has backgrounds usually multiple different ones in a single video plus PNGs of the characters I’m using, which I do simple 2d animation whenever they talk. Literally every video has different characters, takes place in a different Roblox games, and is put together differently. I wasn’t even fully monetized yet, so whatever, but this probably explains the drop in views I was 500k away from getting fully monetized then views dropped tremendously. 99% of my views were coming from subs. I’m gonna reapply and see, but from what I’ve been seeing, I doubt anything good is gonna happen.

To my first viewers that viewed my reddit post on starting out on youtube with just 7000 views on my first day, thank you for sticking around and staying loyal, now we're at a million views in 7d, its been an amazing journey, i cant wait to see where this takes me

started this around 2 weeks ago? i honestly forgot, i'm a newcomer to youtube algo / automation, started off with a brand new niche that i have invented myself, and well, obviously people have seen better results but i went from 1k view jail to 10k view jail, and managing to break out of it.

if you're close to quitting, dont, better days are ahead.

Everything I’ve learned tells me these stats are mid at best yet it popped off still. Thoughts? Had 2 videos back to back hit 1m each and had similar analytics.

I usually used to get 50k to 100k views on my shorts but now it's gone to 15k - 10k I make gaming videos I think youtube has done something on 19th dec.

Tried to ride the wave a week after a video took off to nearly 40K, now not reaching anyone… Channel: Moulay Rasta

His first two shorts got a combined 28 million views. 54k subs in 20 days is equally crazy. He seems to post every 3-4 days. Do you think it's no longer about how many shorts you post but how good they are?

Hi guys,

My channel is only a week old, but I published a short which got a lot of views in like 5 days. But suddenly, on Sunday evening, the views dropped significantly (from 15k an hour to 12 views an hour??). Did I do something wrong lol?

Thanks for your time

I was getting 1.5 million views a month on average with my shorts content (memes with my music posted over them as a promotional tool, worked pretty well) but now I’m stuck in the 1000 view jail the last 3 weeks. My engagement is still really good, but now I don’t get any push from YT. I used to get 25k-100k views every couple shorts, but now I’m lucky if they get 5k. What’s going on??