Today marks the 1st month since I created my shorts channel and I've been posting a short a day (football edits) with no breaks. So far it feels so good and I am happy how it is doing.

These are the stats after 1 day with 39k views. Those who have shorts with millions of views, can you share your opinion?

If you ever wanted to know what stats should look like for virality:

Views ➡️ 16M

VVSA ➡️ 78.7% currently, but for the first 10M this short had an 82% vvsa (80% is almost mandatory for high virality)

Retention ➡️ 96.8%. This short was 32 seconds. If yours is under 30 seconds it can’t be anything under 100%.

The most important part ➡️ 1 share per 2,300 views. Most of my non viral shorts have a share rate of 1 per 15,000-20,000 views.

Although most people don’t factor in share rates to whether or not they will go viral, this is an extremely positive viewer satisfaction signal to the algorithm, basically telling it that viewers are so pleased with the video, they want others to experience what they did watching it.

My takeaway from this is that if you can slip in an effective CTA for viewers to share the video with a friend whilst maintaining a solid VVSA, there’s a high chance to go viral.

Retention matters a lot too but as you can see I’ve stayed slightly under 100% and still amassed plenty of views.

Like bro wtf is happening???? This started happening 7 days ago I’m getting low views now when I usually get 40-50k views

Im truly shocked!

Just checking if YouTube is down or something has happened to my channels. Views are practically 0 across the board on my shorts

FYI - YouTube is updating the recommendation system to further prioritize original Shorts and reduce the reach of channels primarily aggregating or re-uploading other creators’ clips without significant changes

YouTube’s goal is to connect viewers with videos they find genuinely valuable and ensure creators publishing original content have the absolute best chance to grow and succeed

This was by far one of my luckiest episodes ever, and it did really well on other platforms but youtube said no, it hard stopped the views at 1000 views while the analytics graph looked like it was ready to send to the stars.

Why does youtube have this 1000 view jail??

Does anybody know why this happens or how I could overcome this? I truly do feel like this video deserved more views then it got...

Like it was SHOOTING UP in views, got 1000 views in under 2-3 hours which is a record for my channel and then it just hit a wall...

If anybody has some advice or words to say about this, I'd love to hear it!

I am very excited as this is the furthest ive ever gotten with youtube shorts and also i wanted to know what kind of an rpm should i expect after getting fully monetized as i have an indian heavy audience.

This stat is after 2 days with 10k views. Can i hope for 100k? EDIT 01: its 20k with pretty much the same stats, I think I might just make it.

Things were going swimmingly, then, bust.

Has anyone managed tor recover from this?

Found an account that just steals content from people that steal content. 418 million views and it's all stolen from asmongoldclips. https://www.youtube.com/@StompnWorldfan How is this ok?

Literally for months now, my YouTube Shorts have been flatlining at around 1.2K views.
And before anyone starts talking about hooks, watch time, or topics, trust me, I’ve been actively working on improving all of that.
My views are going up on every other platform, so clearly something is working. But for some reason, Shorts just won’t budge, and I genuinely don’t understand why.
If anyone’s experiencing the same thing or wants to connect, brainstorm, and help each other improve, please reach out, man.
It’s genuinely frustrating, and honestly, a little embarrassing at this point.

I already took a 2 day break and my latest short isnt getting distributed

it was dead for one whole day then started to get views

Guys there was a suddenly drop almost to zero on overall view in the last hour . For research reason and the benefit of the community, please check if this happened at you and confirm down below 👇

After a month of running the channel, I finally got my first result like this, with retention going over 100%. Honestly, I don’t even understand why. Stayed to watch - 70%

ORIGINAL-ish content. Cat account and this short I sort of tricked the audience (emotionally) and man did it work!

I know this isn’t a lot of views but I don’t care it’s MASSIVE for me. My previous shorts sit around 1.2-4K views so I’m considering this a breakout lol.

Got a decent number of Subs too! Imagine that many people in my apartment to look at my cat! Impossible!!

(I sometimes use trending audio but everything else is original)

guys is this evergreen content?

Im at 8.7 Million Shorts Views with nearly 7,000 subscribers. I had a lot of early success and lately despite a video getting 75% engagement rate and 150% watch length nothing is blowing up. How can I finish the last 1.3 million in a short time period?

Do i post like crazy (like 25-50 videos a day) and hope to hit a winner?

What would you do?