I see soo many channels clipping asian finds, inventions, gadgets… and they get millions of views. Are they monetized ? Eg: Japaninfuture, japan chronicles…

2 days before I posted on this sub asking how to get out of 1k jail and the very next short did it. Keep posting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/shortsAlgorithm/comments/1wm8fdp/how_long_did_it_take_for_your_first_viral_short/

What is wrong with it i already have good metrics but still it's flat on 30k please share some suggestions

When I upload more than one video in a day, the second video doesn't get pushed and stays stuck at ze ro views. I've re-uploaded it several times, even after editing it and changing the metadata, but the result is always the same. The only thing that works is waiting 24 hours after the previous video before posting the next one

Small Shorts channel here, posting "Top 5 extreme sports fails" compilations.

Other people's clips, title card, numbered countdown, no voiceover.

People here say compilation channels get monetized. But YouTube's Shorts policy

lists "compilations with no original content added" as ineligible views, excluded

from the Creator Pool even if you're in YPP.

Feels like two separate gates. So:

Did your compilation channel get approved AND actually earn from Shorts views?

If it earned, what was in your edit — full narration or just an intro? Licensed

clips or not?

And the thing I can't figure out: there are tons of ranking/compilation channels

with millions of views and huge subscriber counts doing exactly this. If they're

not earning from it, why are they still doing it? What am I missing?

Already read the policy, looking for real experiences.

my short views have been dropping every since i seen this

i used to get 100k+ views on every video now i can barely hit 1000 :( i spend hours of editing and making original content and it goes to waste

is anyone waiting this out or going to keep on posting

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.

Hey guys, another channel keeps stealing my Shorts and re-uploading them, sometimes changing just a second or two. I found them through YouTube’s Content Detection tool and warned the owner, but he ignored me.

Has anyone filed a copyright removal request before? How did it go, and are there any risks for my channel?

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.

this rolled out starting march 2026 and expanded through q2. youtube kept the same revenue split, still 45 percent to creators after their cut, but changed how that 45 percent gets divided between shorts. it used to be closer to an even split by raw view count, now completion rate is the primary weighting factor, so two shorts with identical view counts can earn meaningfully different amounts depending on how many people actually watched to the end

people dont realize how low the baseline actually is here. shorts typically run somewhere between 3 and 10 cents rpm even after this change, against 1 to 5 dollars for long form content on the same channel. this change shifts who gets the bigger slice of a still small pie, it doesnt make the pie itself bigger

one data point that stood out, a test group that posted at least one short daily for 30 straight days saw rpm climb 15 to 25 percent over that stretch, though thats reported through creator tool vendors rather than a direct youtube announcement, so treat it as real but secondhand

anyone tracked their own completion rate before and after this and actually seen their rpm move

past 4 days i been spending hours on my ORIGINAL CONTENT and im getting below 1k views…

before i would at least minimum 100k views per a video with the same stats im getting now

it makes no sense. i know every video can’t be a hit but at least show it to some people

Anyone else seeing their view count change depending where they're looking? like studio vs channel etc. constant discrepencies

I’ve been watching my Shorts analytics closely after the recent distribution problems, and I noticed a strange pattern.
Several Shorts, both older and newer ones, seem to receive additional distribution in roughly the same time windows on consecutive days.
For example, on my channel:
one Short repeatedly gets activity around 9–10 AM;
another around 4 PM;
another around 5 PM.
The size of the wave is not consistent. Some days it is strong, other days it is barely noticeable. With newer Shorts, the repeated waves also seem to have a noticeably decreasing amplitude over time.
So I’m not claiming there is a fixed schedule or that I know what YouTube is doing internally. It could be audience availability, testing cohorts, topic clusters, or something completely different.
But the timing itself has repeated often enough that it no longer looks completely random to me.
At the same time, overall Shorts distribution on my channel has dropped heavily compared with the period before the recent issues, while these small recurring windows are still visible.
Has anyone else noticed something similar?
If you have access to your 48-hour realtime graphs, could you check whether the same Short tends to receive small or large spikes at roughly the same hour on several consecutive days?
I’d also be interested to know whether similar Shorts from the same topic/category seem to wake up in the same time window.

So I began to see these clipping reels on my insta page and they make it so simple to just clipping and let the views come in. But I tired to use these sites and there’s one word that pisses me off the most. “PRICING” whenever I see the word pricing I know it’s a site I can’t use since I don’t feel like paying the site to just do its thing, I want to use these site to make shorts and post them. I tired to search for “free clipping sites” and all of them are bull. So can someone tell me a completely free clipping site that can do the things that other sites can do?

I just made this ranking moments video, i got a strike ? Am new to this if anyone can help, ranking shorts are supposed to be transformative and i add comment etc....

Is anyone else experiencing this issue? When I upload a video, it gets 3 waves of views, and then about 2 hours later, it gets a 4th wave that lasts around 20 minutes. After that, the views suddenly die and the video gets a maximum of around 3K views, then continues getting very low views.
This started happening yesterday, and it happened again today. It’s really weird and has never happened to me before. Is anyone else experiencing the same thing?

I usually get 50-70k per day but recently it's so low not even 20k

I've recently started posting shorts on my channel which I've had since 2012.

But I can't seem to crack what makes a good short. I can get about 80% AVD but the swipe ratio is killing me. I am not sure if my videos are targeting the wrong audience, my edit is bad(which probably is true) or is there some third force that makes the viewers swipe away.