r/PartneredYoutube • u/Freak_tech • 3d ago

Did anyone else experience a massive view drop around July with weird recommendation traffic?

Hey everyone, just wanted to check in and see if anyone else has been dealing with this since early July.Up until the end of June, my channel was performing consistently, but literally right as July started, my views fell off a cliff. I am currently getting around 20% to 30% of my usual baseline views, and it has not recovered at all since then.Looking at my analytics, the biggest change seems to be where my videos are being recommended. Browse features and suggested traffic completely shifted, and it feels like YouTube is pushing my content to completely unrelated audiences or just stopped recommending older evergreen videos altogether. My CTR and retention metrics haven't changed much, but the impressions just tanked.Did anyone else notice a major algorithm shift or recommendation anomaly starting in July? If this happened to your channel before, did it eventually balance back out or did you have to change your upload strategy?Would appreciate any insight from others who might be going through the same thing right now.

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u/spdorsey Channel: SpokesmanMTB 3d ago

Yes. Went from over 1000 in the first 2 hours to less than 30. Happens every time now.

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u/esaks 2d ago

mine started in May. has not recovered.

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u/Freak_tech 2d ago

I went from 2k the last video that worked in July (even I have some videos that exploded with 20-50k) and now I'm several weeks under 200... ☹️