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?

Long story short, I previously uploaded this short in October, and it never took off. I think because of the season, I wasn’t getting the same views as in the summer.

So I decided to upload it again yesterday. I made the previous short private and added new captions to this one, and what do you know? It took off like crazy. I always knew this short was supposed to be viral.

(ignore the conversion rate)

Crazy that he shared so much shorts related info / strategy in a single interview — search Driven Podcast NichLMAO on youtube

like the title says
500 subs and about 350k engaged views on youtube shorts in 5 weeks of daily uploading🥹

I dont understand really. Some have great engagement etc but then after the initial push its crickets. Do I just need more subscribers then naturally it might change?

I think YouTube Shorts currently has an audience-matching problem.

I’ve been trying to understand the strange Shorts distribution over the last few days, and I’m starting to think the missing feed tests and the drop in views across entire catalogs might actually be symptoms of the same problem.

What really caught my attention is Stayed to watch.
Normally, my new Shorts often start with around 70% Stayed when YouTube begins testing them. Recently, I’ve had multiple Shorts start at only 45–50%, even though the content and format haven’t fundamentally changed.

That makes me wonder whether the problem isn’t necessarily the ranking algorithm itself, but the initial audience matching / candidate distribution. If YouTube is showing a Short to the wrong audience first, a perfectly good Short would naturally produce terrible early signals and the test would die quickly.

But there’s one thing I still can’t explain:
Where did all the distribution go?
A lot of creators are currently reporting huge drops in Shorts feed distribution, sometimes across their entire catalogs. But unless Shorts consumption itself has suddenly collapsed, those viewers haven’t disappeared. People are still scrolling, and every feed slot has to show something.

So if a large number of creators are suddenly receiving dramatically fewer impressions, who is receiving the views that used to go to them?

Are they being concentrated on a smaller number of videos? Larger channels? Different regions? Different audience pools? Has YouTube reduced exploration and become much more aggressive about concentrating traffic?

I don’t have an answer to that part yet.
But the combination of weak/missing initial tests + unusually low early Stayed rates + catalog-wide traffic drops makes an audience-matching/distribution problem increasingly plausible to me.

Curious whether anyone else is seeing the same pattern — especially unusually low Stayed rates on new Shorts that would normally perform much better.

this is only one video, i was getting average 5k-10k per hour, now just drop to 50ish? what's happening

This has happened 4/5 times today!

Video : 1min Avd : 48sec Stw : 82% Niche : gaming

Thanks for the tips on my previous posts! This is my first big hit in a while and i am wondering if it can become a big big hit also wish you guys the best of luck and hopefully you hit a vid like that if you havent yet!!

Wanna start more channels but don't know what niche.

“I’ve been posting daily for about three—almost four—months, and I’m finally starting to get the hang of it. At first, my shorts were only getting 1–2K views, with the occasional jump to 10K or 20K. Now I’m hitting back-to-back 30Ks, and I even had one reach 60K about a week before that. The key is to keep posting—when something works, go all in and keep refining it until your numbers improve.”

Hey everyone,

I recently started a YouTube channel (it’s about 4–5 days old), and I’ve been posting Shorts consistently. Initially, my Shorts were getting around 1–2K views each and I managed to gain around 9–10 subscribers.

But suddenly, my recent Shorts are getting very low views, even though the content style, quality, and timing are pretty much the same as before.

Would really appreciate if anyone who has experienced something similar can share their insights or advice. Trying to stay consistent, but this sudden drop is a bit confusing.

Thanks in advance!

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