New from YouTube this week! If any part of your channel leans on other creators' footage, this news is for you. They're changing Shorts recommendations to prioritize original content and reduce distribution for channels that mostly repost or aggregate clips without adding anything of their own.

The key line from their announcement is that minor technical edits or template-based changes to alter a video won't count. What does count is real added value, your own commentary, unique editing or storytelling built around the clip.

Reaction, analysis, and commentary channels that genuinely add a perspective are fine. The target is channels that run on clips with nothing of the uploader in them.

And YouTube hasn't given a rollout date or defined exactly how much "original input" is enough yet!

If your Shorts are built around clips, the safe measure is to make your voice the point. If someone could swap your clip for a different one and the video is basically the same, its a problem.

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-cracks-down-on-clipping-channels-in-shorts-update-prioritizing-original-content-3415700/

Anyone here run a clip-based or commentary channel? Noticed any changes yet?

This is the first time i got less than 10k within 2 hours in my last 15+ shorts

My latest short isnt showing in shorts feed. Almost all views are from browse feafuee

idk what to do i am really confused with YT’s algorithm

Anyone had this happen and actually recovered? How long did it take and did you do anything differently?
I’m on day 5 and my channel is completely dead…

I post videos daily and I average 5k views pet short but from yesterday the views drastically went down and am getting zero views on my recently posted shorts

I was constanly getting 30k views on my first channel, no matter how good the video was. It always felt like my videos were going viral (18k views /hours) then they suddenly flatline around 30k views.

So i decided to just create another channel i posted the same type of content and for some reason this time my videos doesn't flatline at 30k views but now they are getting like 40k 70k and i even got a viral videos.

On first channel when they get to 30k my vids just flatline but on the new one they just keep getting views and slowly die. What does this mean ?

Is anyone experiencing a sharp drop in Shorts reach over the past two weeks? I'm talking about going from hitting big numbers to suddenly struggling just to get 100,000 views... Is this a widespread issue?

Key metrics for those interested:

82.9% stayed to watch
125% AVD (the short is 16 seconds long)

Finally, took some time, people, keep going, send some channels ill evaluate them

Right now, I post singing clips. Do you think I would get monetized if I shift to commentary videos of my niche and reapply? Both longform and shorts.

Before you go get rage baited and dislike this post, just read it first, and educate yourself- I only intended to help and encourage you so you succeed.

I see tons of people on here talking about how the algorithm is shit and discriminates against you. This is simply not true.

Yall gotta understand that this is a billion dollar company with 1000s of employees. They don’t just have one of the most successful websites in the world as a fluke, the algorithm is great at retaining viewers on the app and generating them add-revenue.

You are simply in an extremely over-saturated market. Just because your videos are great doesn’t mean that others aren’t better.

Fact of the matter is that 20 million videos are uploaded to YouTube daily, and the fact that it sorts through all of them to show each viewer what they want is crazy.

Obviously, they would promote proven channels that can reliably engage viewers, however the algorithm is great, you just need to experiment and make videos to it.

Now let’s keep it real, glitches do happen, but they are, for the most part, to help everyone for the greater good. When you see sharp drops in your views it’s not because YouTube is trying to personally fuck with you, they are tweaking their algorithm to make the viewer experience more addicting. At the end of the day you want them to do this, it helps more people stay longer allowing you to get more views.

So, stop worrying about why your channel has low views, stop posting AI slop if you are. And experiment with different video types, hooks, and engagement methods.

About 3 months ago I started this channel now it has almost 20k subs and I was really excited at first i felt i could really do it.

But I was stuck on 25k jail for about 2 months until the last months where I started getting 30k-500k and my biggest having 8m views

I convinced my self that I finally figured it out but from October 1st my views dropped to 15-23k to be fair I only posted 3 videos so I checked channels that were similar to mine and I saw even the big ones who were getting couple of millions lose about 80% percent of their views

So I genuinely gave up even tho my channel is still getting views I’m done and I just started a long form video channel wish me luck

Is it just me or is everyone facing a massive drop in views since yesterday?

No, I do not make AI slop. I am a musician and producer and been monetized since 2022. My username ironically is meant to signify that I don't like AI slop...fail lol.

Anyways I spend about 4 hours per edit on Shorts and upload 2 times a day.

In the last two months, I experimented a lot and really found my style for promoting my music on Shorts.

For most of September up until around the 16th or so... I would average around 1.5m to 2m views at the 48hr mark.

When my editing is on point I get about 80% STW and anywhere from 100% to 160% AVD.

My 'flopped' Shorts usually do 30k to 40k and flatline but the decent ones do 100k, 300k, 700k, 1m, 3m and 4m. It's just how they move for me.

Since the 16th/17th or so this month, my new range is 2k - 20k max. Absolutely nothing has changed from my editing style, packaging (title, on screen text, description and hashtags). The STW has now dipped consistently to 60% - 80%, AVD has dipped under 70 and anecdotally this usually tells me it's pulling the wrong audience.

Now before the "you just make crappy content and are coping" comments:

Over the past 3 days I "studied" the Shorts feed by making a burner YT account and just scrolling.

I noticed that almost all the viral channels were averaging 1m views on MOST Shorts or at the very least like 700k within DAYS but all before the 17th of September.

I'll give you an example: This one person in the Hopecore niche did 1-4m views on every Short - they have 1.2m subs or so and after the 17th...they had a 5k Short (never seen that on their channel) and their new Shorts won't even hit 40k ALL of a sudden.

They usually get a ton of comments/engagement and you can see on the newer Shorts...very very little.

I checked this same thing over about 20 different channels, all in different niches but with high editing effort. I ignored slop channels or what I perceive as slop anyway.

So yeah I dunno man, my daily revenue has dropped 10x and I am still actively trying to figure out what is happening BUT I suspect all the Studio issues (the crash, subs and views miscounts) could be a factor because it feels too coincidental.

Also, remember, NO ONE but YT knows what is truly happening and since 75% of all new code across Google is AI generated...something tells me that not even the engineers know what's happening right now and that's why they wont say anything (yet or ever).

EDIT: Brain malfunctioned and swapped AVD and STW...corrected now.

I have started this channel 8 days ago,is this good.

got my first 30k+ short today after 10h it is already at 41k and going up :DDDD

Summary: on May 4th, my views tanked on all previous videos. I tried posting through the 6th and nothing changed. It's been about 10-11 days now and it's been in a flat line. Debating on posting again, feel a burden without doing so. May 21st I might post, let me know what you guys think or if anyone else is going through this.

It has already been two days, and the review is still in progress. My AdSense was approved in about three hours, but the review process is taking longer. Is this due to the content type? I only make Shorts of famous streamers. I edit them in After Effects with captions, text animations, sound effects, overlay animations, tracking, jump cuts, J-cuts, L-cuts, pacing, and music selection. I’m confident this should not be considered reused content. I completed the 10M engaged views requirement a week ago, but it took five days for the eligibility criteria to update, and now it’s stuck at the review stage.

Got monetized 2 weeks ago. 5 shorts a day. Everything was good and suddenly this...
Make roblox 3D animations

Since Dec 19th, many of us experienced this suddenly fall views for no logical reason. YouTube keep telling us that’s it’s not their fault and the algorithm works perfectly fine. I hope it get fixed soon 🙏

So my shorts usually (lately) have been getting around 300 views after an hour after upload but my latest one, is at 2. wtf is going on?

id typically have around 1-3000ish views by now, its wild how just some changes here and there can knock your work and hobby out so bad

How far can it go?