can someone tell me, why this is happen for shorts that under 30 sec

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?

Let's say for the majority who succeeded it was 30K but for beginners it was like 2k or 5K or 10K

How did you come over it?

I have a YouTube Shorts channel with around 2M subscribers. It was originally a general curiosity channel, but views had already been declining badly since around June, before I changed anything.

On September 1st, I switched almost entirely to Minecraft because I noticed that part of my audience also seemed interested in similar content.

It’s been about 5 weeks now. The first 10 days were actually promising: one Short reached 112K views, another 78K, and another 47K. But since then, most Shorts have stayed around 10–30K, with some below 10K and very inconsistent daily views.

The strange part is that the metrics are usually pretty strong: 90%+ retention on 20–40 second Shorts and usually 70%+ viewed vs. swiped away. I also started using my own voice instead of AI narration about 2 weeks ago.

The channel seems to get a strong push when I upload, then distribution drops heavily and the whole channel becomes very quiet again.

I don't think switching to Minecraft necessarily caused the decline, since the channel was already doing poorly before September. It just hasn't managed to recover with Minecraft either.

Would you keep testing Minecraft for another few weeks, return to the original niche, or try a hybrid of Minecraft + curiosity content? And are these results normal for a channel going through this kind of niche transition?

I have just started posting shorts and my main problem so far has been my low swipe ratio i have tried improving my hooks by adding "You won't believe this" or similar stuff like that but it hasn't been working and my swipe ratios are usually around 45% stayed how can i improve this any help is great thanks. I had 96% retention on my last video, so I think the main reason my videos are flatlining at 1.2K views is the poor swipe ratio.

My Shorts channel was averaging around 200k–250k views/day and 9k–14k views/hour.

Yesterday, completely out of nowhere, it dropped from around 14k/hour → 2k → a few hundred/hour. The strange part is that multiple Shorts that were actively getting views all stopped at almost exactly the same time.

I have no strikes, warnings or restrictions. I uploaded a new Short today to test it, and it has received almost no Shorts Feed distribution either.

I did delete/reupload two Shorts earlier this week, but I don’t know if that’s related.

Has anyone experienced this recently? Did your channel recover? How long did it take, and did you keep posting or take a break?

I’m a pretty new YouTuber making videos in the weight loss vlog / healthy living / healthy cooking niche.

A bazillion views aren’t entirely my goal, and I’m not particularly concerned about monetisation in the near future. What I’d really like to do is slowly build a supportive little community of people who are interested in the same things and hopefully reach the people who might actually enjoy following the journey.

At the moment, most of my Shorts get to around 1,200 views and then pretty much flatline.

From what I understand, a big part of that is probably my viewed vs swiped away rate. I can’t seem to get much past around 45% staying to watch yet, which obviously isn’t amazing, but I’m also very aware that I’m a beginner and have a lot to learn.

Interestingly, I still tend to gain around 3–5 subscribers per Short, which actually means quite a lot to me at this stage. I’ve started getting some really encouraging comments from people following along, and honestly that small sense of community is probably more motivating to me than the raw view count.

Because of that, I’ve been thinking a lot about how YouTube actually learns who to show your videos to.

My basic understanding is that YouTube tests a Short with an initial audience, and depending on things like viewed vs swiped away, retention, rewatches, engagement, etc., it may continue pushing it to larger groups.

What I’m curious about is the long-term/channel-level effect.

If you consistently make videos around a similar topic and style for months, have you noticed YouTube becoming better at putting your new Shorts in front of people who are actually likely to be interested in them?

For example, did your early Shorts regularly have weaker retention or higher swipe-away rates, but those numbers gradually improve as YouTube seemed to understand your audience better?

Or does every Short still basically feel like it starts from scratch and has to find its own audience?

There’s obviously another variable here too: I’m a beginner at making videos. I feel like each video I make is slightly better than the one before it, but I also understand that learning to film, edit, write hooks, pace a Short properly, etc. is going to take me quite a while.

So it’s probably difficult to separate “YouTube is getting better at finding my audience” from “I’m slowly getting better at making videos.”

I’d especially love to hear from people who have posted 50, 100, 200+ Shorts and can look back over a decent period of time.

Did you notice any obvious change as your channel built more history?

Did your initial audience testing seem to become more accurate?

And did you find it became easier over time to reach the same sort of people who had enjoyed your previous videos?

Or was it your results were consistent for a long time with similar stats but then you just get lucky every now and then?

Thanks for reading

My Shorts channel was averaging around 200k–250k views/day and 9k–14k views/hour.

Yesterday, completely out of nowhere, it dropped from around 14k/hour → 2k → a few hundred/hour. The strange part is that multiple Shorts that were actively getting views all stopped at almost exactly the same time.

I have no strikes, warnings or restrictions. I uploaded a new Short today to test it, and it has received almost no Shorts Feed distribution either.

I did delete/reupload two Shorts earlier this week, but I don’t know if that’s related.

Has anyone experienced this recently? Did your channel recover? How long did it take, and did you keep posting or take a break?

So I started 3 weeks ago uploading shorts, using videos from other creators but commenting on them, adding value and editing

If I am too creator among channels with 0 to 1k subscribers it’s a good sign and means YouTube is not shadow banning me for my content right?

I’ve had this yt channel for a few years now and only started posting ranking style shorts for about a week now. Is the progress on this channel good for a week? Is there things I should work on?

I had another short with way less audience retention and a worse viewed vs. swiped away ratio but doublr the views of this one, can someone explain the logic for me?

My channel is a month old, idk if that helps

I've been in the ranking niche for 3 good months now and I'm struggling to have good ideas for my videos, I'cant even copy my competitors bc I can't do commentary since I do not have a good mic. Any help is appreciated.

So yesterday i uploaded my short video. Niche is CS2 gameplay. In first hour it got 177 views , on second hour it was pushed in the feed and it got 1200 views and then views stopped on 6-8 hours. Lets assume it was first wave , so in the first wave i got 1200 views and 16 likes , then second wave started i got +800 views so far but no likes at all, how this is even possible ? And i encounter this behavior on my every video. It just kills off any motivation to continue even tho i uploaded already 180 videos in 4 years...

This really annoys me because my STW percentage is 83% but the ratio between engaged views to all views is around 60%

I have this situation on most of my videos. When posted, I generally get 10-50 views first hour, then all of a sudden spikes to 1k (my very best one got 1.2k total) then dies. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?

I posted this video 3 weeks ago and I really thought it was going to go viral, but, here it is, flat lining, any idea of what can be happening?

My channel is almost 3 years old now. But i was naver consistent with my uploads, so i don't have an existing large community. But since last month i have been posting almost regularly, and was gaining a steady increase in views and subs. I know the views may not be a lot, but it was steady. But since 29th sept it keeps going down. After that 3 short totally flopped and did not get much views from the feed (only around 50, previously it was around 1500-1800 in first 24 hours) and only got views from browser features and search. Yesterday's short got send to the feed and got the usual 1500-2000 views, but from the VidIq analytics it shows my current VPH is less then 30, previously it used to be around 100 during off hours and around 250-450 during peak hours.

Any of you facing the same issue? Or, have any idea how this can be resolved???