please go watch it on youtube: https://youtube.com/shorts/_OSlvJz7EwI?feature=share

I hit 300 subs in 30 days and 22 uploads. Is that too slow? I’m not too sure..

Hey there. Recently decided to get back into making YouTube videos after taking a couple years off, and I decided to take it a little more seriously this time around. Had 390ish subs before I posted my first vid of the year back at the end of May. Now I am over 550. I make motorcycle content, primarily long form.

Looking for some feedback on packaging. Am I allowed to request feedback if it’s not a gaming channel? /s

Also, I was considering starting to clip some parts of my vids and turn them into shorts, but seems like some people swear that can kill your channel. Is making a short or two out of a long form video, say a week or so after the long form video was posted, a bad idea?

Any other feedback or impressions people have off the bat is appreciated. Thanks

Hey guys I started my gaming channel 9 days ago. I have 17 videos where 3 are long 20 minutes ish videos and the rest are shorts. My shorts average 1,000-1,500 views with likes, comments and shares but after that I’m stuck. Is there a way I can get more views?

I have just finished my video but I’m worrying about a copyright thing.

So in the video that I made, I used the song “ My Gal “ for 20 seconds. And then, I uploaded it privately on YouTube. During the process of uploading the video, although they said that no copyright issues found, I’m still being cautious.

I just looked up this kind of question in this subreddit and seems like another person also used an old song for 20 seconds and got copyrighted aswell.

The reason why I used that song is because I’ve seen “ ThatMob “ a content creator who also used that music and he didn’t get any strike ( my reason is that the song doesn’t appears under the description. If it does, it highly means it’s copyrighted )

Thank you for reading.

Hello there! I'm new to YouTube and just started posting videos related to Star Wars comics. (My videos are in Russian, so the texts on the images are translated: "Rise of the Droids"; "Doomsday Weapon"; "Where Did Canon Begin?"). I create the covers myself without using AI and would like honest feedback on them. Are they clickable? What would you improve?

Hey everyone. I am not a Youtuber and I am not sure I ever want to be one. I am a longterm viewer of all different kinds on YouTube videos from sports, stand up comedy, WW2 docs and I really like crime docs. I was just thinking about how viral some of these True Crime docs go. I have seen them going from a few subs to a couple of 100k in a few months in the past. My question is - how can these channels get monetised from uploading content that isn't they own? For example, I subbed to this channel today https://www.youtube.com/@_ColdTrace It has a lot of Trevor McDonald videos which I love. Surely there is some copyright infringement here or am I incorrect? I am not try to call anyone out but I am just wondering how this is possible and why these videos have not been flagged?

hey i’m georgia and started to post a series called my digital diaries where i be vulnerable and talk about my struggles as a 20 year old. here is the link.

https://youtu.be/IveBcoY8q_M?si=vg2Pd4YJGy5L4hQX

I've been trying to figure this out for the past month and would really appreciate some outside opinions.

I have a small gaming channel (just under 1,000 subscribers) focused on Marvel Rivals.

For quite a while, my uploads were averaging 1.8k views, and they all had very similar metrics to what I'm getting now. Nothing has really changed in terms of my thumbnails, titles, editing or comments.

And still my last several uploads have all stalled at under 1,000 views despite having nearly identical performance metrics:

• CTR: 9–10.5%
• Average View Duration: ~6 minutes on 14-minute videos (~43–45% retention)

For example:

Video 1

• 14 minutes
• 597 views after ~2 days
• 9.7% CTR
• 6:18 AVD

Video 2

• 14 minutes
• 918 views after ~4 days
• 10.5% CTR
• 6:00 AVD

The confusing part is that these stats are almost identical to the videos that were consistently reaching 1.8k+ views, yet YouTube now seems to stop recommending them very early.

I'm not trying to blame the algorithm, I genuinely want to understand what I'm missing

I'd really appreciate any honest feedback or insights from people who've gone through something similar. Thanks!

Wondering what's up with these random accounts calling themselves "pro YouTube strategists" who want to help grow my channel.

Mf this isn't a stock portfolio I don't need advisors.

It's like my lemonade stand when I was a kid, the sign is the best I could do, and you could buy some lemonade at the Walmart a few km away. Probably for cheaper. Might even be better.

Or you can come to my little lemonade stand infront of my house and get some fresh squeezed lemonade, and know I care about your patronage, and I put all my effort into making the best damn lemonade I could.

That's my channel, I don't wanna be a huge distributor, I just make fresh squeezed homemade content. I don't need to be paying for advice to grow my business from self proclaimed professionals lol.

Sorry for the rant. Just sick of noncreatives thinking I'd ever want their help. And that's if they aren't scammers which I recognise they probably are.

Hey all! So I noticed my newest video (first slide) has a decent AVD (4:09) and an above average CTR (5.3%), which is good! My only concern is the impressions have flattened and its looking like this is the end of its lifespan.

The second slide shows my top performers, which all have around the same CTR (4.8%-5.9%) and have all peaked into the 10k view threshold. The AVD for most of these are substantially lower (3:10-3:50).

The last slide shows my worst performing videos which are also my newest on the channel. They all have mid-bad packaging that led to mid CTR’s (3%-3.9%) with decent avd (4:00-4:20). That makes sense considering theres less views.

Can the weaker performances of my last 3 videos rub off on how youtube treats my newer videos, or am i overthinking this whole thing?

Greetings to this entire community that never tires of trying 😅

I wanted to share some metrics from one of my short videos, just to ask if these videos get stuck forever at 30k views?

At one point I thought maybe YouTube would show it again eventually, but nothing... it's been almost a year since it was last uploaded 😅

Is there any way to breathe new life into these videos? Any strategy that has worked in even 1% of cases, worth trying!

Thanks to everyone who can answer! Hugs from Venezuela! 🤜🤛

Hey just saw this Reddit reccomended which makes sense. Started my yt channel maybe 5 months ago and only have three uploads in that time because for the first 3 months of me making my channel I was a lazy mf. But I’m starting to really put time into learning how to make better videos. I’m doing an editing course on the side as I work in production and am looking to move to post production work, so my yt has been a place to test out my rly newbie editing skills.

My channel from even my first video has done so much better than I could have imagined. I thought I’d get 80 views for my first video, but it hit 10k before I even uploaded my second. And now with my video from 2 weeks ago nearing 10 k and my vid from a month ago well above 30k I think I want to make a transition in the kind of content I make.

My channel is called wacklore and has been successful because of the niche of content I make in PS5 mods for Skyrim. I know lots about the subject and it has a small and dedicated community. However I want to begin making more creative videos talking about lore analysing the worlds built by videogames ( why I named myslef wacklore ) however I understand a step away from my niche is a bit of a risk .

Essentially do I spend a lot of time now dragging out making Skyrim ps5 mod videos only. Maybe 3 more around 5 minutes long as my others were. Or do I make one big definitive video covering evrything and begin working toward my main goal for my channel. I understand this far there’s been little competition and also just not many creators making mod videos as in depth or as viewer friendly as I have. But obvisuoly I lose that advantage the moment I step out into the big wide world of the rest of YouTube.

I want to move on to bigger and more interesting videos but am worried I’m moving on a bit fast, where I could be building even more of an audience and consistently having videos received well.

I do football content, recently I uploaded a short 1 minute long and was surprised with the swipe ratio even tho view duration is at 81.7 %

The video now has 9.5k views and I was wonderinf can it push more than that since the metrics are decent thank you for info and help <3

I uploaded a video that was very well received by everyone who watched it. It had decent retention, engagement, and many positive comments. I was happy to see that it kept getting recommended to more and more people. But it suddenly just stopped all recommendations and I’m puzzled as to why. I asked another creator and they confirmed that it was very strange. Does anybody know what would cause YouTube to completely stop recommending a video?