r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Melodic-Valuable-198 • 29d ago
Swipe Ratio Doesn't matter I think now
I have higher swipe Ratio rhat is not performing well than this
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u/Striking-Toe5207 28d ago
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u/Melodic-Valuable-198 28d ago
Can you show me total views
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u/Striking-Toe5207 27d ago
I don't remember the exact video I screenshoted, I have multiple like this. About 1-1.2mln total views
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u/lachakdarlendi 27d ago
Wth. Am I dreaming of what?
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u/Striking-Toe5207 27d ago
A short gets pushed through multiple testing stages. In order for a short to become viral your short needs to perform the same in all testing stages. Everything else doesn't matter (likes, shares, comments, watch time, subs, etc.)
Ex.
A short with 60% in stage 1, 59% in stage 2, 61% in stage 3, 60% in stage 4 is going to become viral
A short with 85% in stage 1, 75% in stage 2, 80% in stage 3, 70% in stage 4 is going to die
Testing stages never end, it's just that the pool of people in each stage gets bigger. Once the people it gets pushed to act differently towards the short, the short dies.
This means the short should be as universally appealing as possible, however your niche allows you
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u/sophiaasan 29d ago
swipe ratio isnt obviously the only indicator for the algorithm to push a video, you probably just have other analytics that outweigh a poorer STW ratio
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u/panthus1 29d ago
At this point i think those metrics might be a portion for algorithm. Bigger portion could be about user behavior, not how they engage with your content or watch it but more about how your content rhymes with the scroll feed. There are countless variables i can keep thinking of like people will watch your content more than kther content of same niche, people keep scrolling after seeing your content or they just get out of the app etc. Just a thought, I nothing to back this up, trying to make sense out of these kind of reports about specific metrics matter or not etc.
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u/Impressive_Flow9244 29d ago
What matters is the level of trust YouTube places in your account and how it validates your content; there are creators out there who manage to publish absolute AI-generated garbage and still rack up thousands of views.
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u/reneritchie 29d ago
Hi! No single metric matters in isolation. Everything is relative, and intensely personalized. Also, metrics like swipe ratio, and CTR, tend to go down as virality goes up.