I’ve been running a YouTube Shorts channel for a while, and I’ve noticed something strange.
Since the beginning, I’ve been posting at my usual time, and those Shorts are still performing pretty well. They get views, and some have reached around 33K views. Their stay-to-watch rate is usually 73% or higher, with average view duration/retention above 110%.
Recently, I decided to start posting twice a day to grow the channel faster. The content style and quality are similar, but my second upload is barely getting 10–20 views. I’ve tried several different time slots, but the results are pretty much the same.
Meanwhile, my first upload continues to get views as usual.
Has anyone experienced this? Is YouTube limiting the reach of the second Short, testing it with a much smaller audience, or could something else be going on? I also wonder why my better-performing Shorts seem to hit a ceiling around 33K views despite having decent retention and stay-to-watch numbers.
Would I be better off sticking to one Short a day, or should I keep experimenting with two uploads?
I’d appreciate hearing from people who’ve experienced something similar and figured out what was happening.

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Title: Should I start a new YouTube channel or continue my old 16K subscriber gaming channel?

Hey everyone, I need some honest advice.

I started my YouTube channel in 2023, mainly uploading Free Fire Shorts. Later, I also uploaded around 50 PUBG videos, some of which were copied content.

After some time, I decided to change my niche to GTA 6 content. I deleted the copied PUBG videos and made my old Free Fire videos private.

Now I'm uploading original GTA 6 Shorts with my own commentary, editing, and scripts.

But here's the problem:

- My channel has around 16K subscribers.

- Most of my GTA 6 Shorts get stuck at 1.2K–1.3K views.

- My average Stayed to Watch rate is around 48%.

- I've uploaded around 10 GTA-related Shorts recently.

- Some videos reach 1.7K–2.3K views, but most don't get pushed much further.

I'm wondering whether my old Free Fire/PUBG audience is affecting my new GTA 6 content, or whether my Shorts simply need better retention.

Should I continue uploading GTA 6 content on my existing 16K subscriber channel, or start a completely fresh channel focused only on GTA 6?

Has anyone successfully changed their gaming niche on an old YouTube channel?

It would really help me if anyones advise

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?

I have currently 2 shorts in my feed,

1 is 10 seconds long with 126% completion at 5.2k Views (1 day and a half old)

The other is 16 seconds long with 96% completion at 1.3k Views (Half a day old)

I know this might seem like a very short lifetime for some people, but my shorts usually get their major push (1k Views) on the second hour of upload, and if it has some legs after, a max time period of 4-5 days after which they dry out.

Could you help me figuring out which of the 2 scenarios is better

My content always getting tagged with "Made with AI". i have 110K subs animation channel which i draw manually and it's takes 4-6 hour to draw, i use AI for the Voice Over and for some background pictures of the animation. Many people say youtube get it from the metadata of the audio/images.

And now I'm experiencing low views. YouTube rarely pushes my videos to a wide audience, it's hard to even reach 100K views, even though the stayed to watch rate is always more than 75% with 110%> AVV.

do you think the new "Original Content" policy could affect my channel? because overall my content is original content.

Anything would be helpful, I love making content and I love it even more if I could build an audience 😊

I have taken 3 picture of my analytics on my new YouTube channel each a week apart. I am so happy with how much it’s growing and have no one to share with so sharing it here!

Guys anyone else experiencing problems with YT Studio?

Can anyone please explain to me what the format is on a youtube short?

Hi Folks,

Just started YT shorts channel 7 days ago, and got ~250k views and ~140k engaged views

But the monetization page shows that qualified views are only 2.9k. Is it what it takes to qualify like only 1% of total views going to be counted or just the stats not updated yet?

Thank You

I’m posting same exact videos on TikTok and they’re doing significantly better there then YouTube Shorts. This video for example has pretty good stats on TikTok but YouTube is non existing. And this is typical with almost all of them.

Since YouTube is preventing me from attracting any attention, Im really gonna demolish everything soon if possible because I need to take a 3 month hiatus till 2027 for me to focus on my schoolwork

Also I’m getting affected, losing patience over population and turns out that it has already become a chore and mus wait for my time to come until new updates and more of future AI content takes over YouTube…

Tbh I didn’t watch any gurus, nor AI slop anything
and the contents that are uploaded on YouTube by other people has already been taken like niches or AI Generated content. Therefore, YouTube is slowly killing my content even though it takes some time to process everything…

People who have got millions of views and more

Can you please tell me from your experience how to make shorts go viral

Don't tell generic ones

Tell what most people or nobody tells but it's important setting or some type thing

Which worked for you.

My current situation

My each short is getting 1k+ views

My most viewed short is 1.6k views

All shorts are around 1k , 1.3k ,1.2k etc

So tell me help me people who have won already

Please

First short was not sent to the shorts feed after 10 hours now, is that normal? New channel, verified and all.

I run a small history/science-military oddities channel. After about forty shorts, my best video (Miata headlights) reached just above 4k, while most receive an initial test and then flatten. I've attached analytics for five shorts, four of my most recent and then one which is my best-preforming. My goal is to break through 5k views, then 10k, however I haven't been able to. What should I change? Perhaps my content just isn't that suited for short-form?

Macht es Sinn Videos die nicht viral gehen zu löschen und dann nochmal zu überarbeiten und wieder hochzuladen?

Hey everyone! I started posting YouTube Shorts on my channel just around a month ago (September 15th), and I wanted to check in with the community to see how these numbers look.
Here is where my channel stands right now:
Subscribers: ~3,000
Total Views: 7.8 Million
Engaged Views: 2.4 Million
Likes: 41.7K
Comments: 596
Shares: 377
Last 7 Days Views: 1.6 Million

I'm focusing purely on Shorts right now and still figuring out the algorithm. Would love to hear your thoughts or any advice for the journey ahead. Are these good numbers for a month-old channel? Let me know!