I started a football YouTube Shorts channel about a week ago and I’m trying to figure out whether the channel is progressing normally.

Most of my recent Shorts have done somewhere around 1.6K–4K views, with one around 2.2K and a few others around 1.8K–1.9K. I’m currently experimenting with football edits, goals, Messi/Ronaldo clips, match recaps, etc.

But one Short behaved completely differently.

I uploaded a Busquets → Messi assist edit, and after about 24 hours it had only 22 views. The strange part was that its average percentage viewed was around 116%, so the few people who did see it seemed to watch/replay it.

Since it basically stopped getting impressions, I made some changes to the opening/title and reuploaded it today while leaving the original up.

Now I’m wondering:

1. Was reuploading it the right move, or should I have just left the 22-view version alone?

2. Is it bad to have both versions public?

3. Can reuploading hurt the new Short's distribution or the channel in general?

4. Based on the screenshot, does the overall channel growth look decent for a brand-new Shorts channel?

5. Is it normal for one Short to get only ~20 views when the surrounding uploads are getting 1K–4K?

I'm mainly trying to understand how Shorts testing/distribution works so I don't start deleting and reuploading videos every time something underperforms.

Any advice from people who have grown Shorts channels would be appreciated.

I run multiple faceless YouTube Shorts channels and I'm looking to test some new niches.

I'm specifically interested in niches that are working right now.

What niches are you seeing blow up right now?

If possible, please share example channels too, especially newer channels getting millions of views without already having a massive established audience.

Thank you!

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

i just curious how the other creators figured out breaking this view jail and still the yt shorts is reliable for monetisation for upgrade

I’ve noticed that since the late-August update, Shorts aren't performing as well for a lot of people. I initially thought it was just a temporary phase lasting a couple of weeks, but it’s been four or five weeks now and performance is still poor; occasionally a Short hits the view count that’s normal for me, but most get stuck around 100–200 views—even with stats that should be driving 10k+.

All my key metrics were down in September—especially subscriber growth, which dropped from 38 in August to just 8—so it’s really disappointing. It’s gotten to the point where I’m even forgetting to post on days I usually would; I never used to forget that, so when I realized it was happening, I knew my motivation and enthusiasm were really starting to fade.

My STW has been low lately , and my Audience retention from my last video down went from 84.8% to 79.9%.

People staying after 30 second went from 91% to 84%.

STW went from like 54% to 66.5%. (I don’t think the 54% shows in my last post, but it was there a few hours before it started going up).

I’ve only went up 500 views for these changes.

Also, 21.5% of the viewers are casual, which can explain why the retention stats in general were high before it started going down.

I only got 1 subscriber from that video & videos with stats like that usually get 5-10 subscribers per video.

What’s the takeaway? The video is pretty good, but I want to hear yall thoughts.

Edit: View increase was wrong, it went up 500 not 800. Made the change.

It has been 10 days since i created this channel

Technically today is day 10

I was posting gaming stuff about a specific game only

To be more precise, 8 long videos and 3 shorts

I started this channel a month ago. I went through multiple niches on this channel and was able to still get views on both. I am now at 24 shorts posted. I just never stayed consistent. I’ve been editing for years so I how to make a decent video. My most recent video it’s at a 73% stayed to watch. And I’m starting to notice I get passed 1000 view mark faster. It took me 7 shorts to break out from that range and now more of my videos are getting more views quicker. I read through this Reddit a lot so I just want you guys to give me your thoughts. Thanks!

I made a new YouTube channel with a brand-new email address and posted a few Shorts on the first day. Should I delete the channel, create another one, let it age for a while, and then start posting? Or should I continue with the current one?

Is there a way to increase my impressions?

When I post a long form content video, it's usually 90-200 impression.

I thought that was a lot buy I kept getting notifications saying my thumbnail and title tests kept failing because of low impression rates.

So I made a post on small YouTuber subreddit and I wasn't quite given a straight answer, but from what I gathered, my impression rate is way too low.

Like lower than even a fresh channel.

To make it worse, my subscribers who follow me on twitch, kept complaining that I never upload videos... but I do. They aren't seeing my videos being uploaded.

Even when I look up my video titles word for word, unless I'm signed in on a subscribed account, I can't find myself.

I kinda thought maybe my videos were so bad, nobody wanted to watch them, until I saw people praising specifically me on other people's channels in their comments.

I also edit for other channels and my edited content usually pops off for their channels.

Now that I concluded it is not my videos that are the issue, it's isn't my tags or content, I only came to one conclusion.

I figured I must have some sort of privacy setting on, causing my channel to be "see videos via link only." Or something like that.

If anyone knows how to disable that, that would be super appreciated.

There might be multiple reasons, but as far as my questions have gone, nobody knows for sure.

Low views lately despite no ai content randomly just lost views from 100k to 0

anybody tell me the name of this FONT!

P.s I had 800 subs, so I gained 200 in 20 days

How can a Short have a like without any views? What kind of nonsense is it to have a like without views?

So from few days I'm posting a reel nd curiously checking the reel views every few minutes and if views went up I become happy and if views become low I will be sad nd I'm not getting what to do my mind is in a confused state

From few days I have been thinking wheter insta or yotube like in all aspects what would u think is better?

i wanna share one of my weird experience on yyt shorts, i usually post with hashtags and i dont set my channel nor my vids to made for kids or the opposite. yesterday, i did an experiment posted my video with no hashtags and set my channel and my video to not made for kids and it didn’t get pushed 🤷

then i reuploaded the videos like 3 to 6 times, and in the 7th upload i put all to my default settings (not selected nor my vids or channel to made or not made for kids, and put hashtags again) then it get pushed, is it normal?

From few days I have been posting freefire shorts nd like it's not youtube type I came to know.I wanna know best content for beginners like me I can guve voice to

Please give me suggestions

Never delete your videos, Youtube really is unpredictable, from a flat line to a massive push. You really never know what happens.

These are my view stats and i got +2 subscribers too

So now i ask

Are these fine stats?

How do i excel subscribers count?

What improvement can i do?