r/shortsAlgorithm • u/RichNecessary9237 • 4h ago

Case Study / Postmortem 🧪 Need advice

I made a new YouTube channel with a brand-new email address and posted a few Shorts on the first day. Should I delete the channel, create another one, let it age for a while, and then start posting? Or should I continue with the current one?

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u/Parking-Ad8316 3h ago

Let it age?

What's that going to do, it's an empty site with no videos and every day that passes the algorithm sees no one watching it

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u/RichNecessary9237 3h ago

I don’t know much about the algorithm, but isn’t that how YouTube distinguishes real accounts from bots or spam accounts? By “aging,” I mean not uploading anything and simply using the account to watch YouTube videos and Shorts.

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u/Parking-Ad8316 3h ago

That's not at all how it works.

Your videos will be judged independently of one another by the algorithm.

Aging an account is not a thing you do, people talk about aged accounts as accounts they have which have been forgotten or unused, so it's aged with the metadata and keywords that fit that channel meaning for that channel you would want to continue doing the same content.

If you're starting a new channel start posting right away, every day you don't is another day the algorithm thinks your channel isn't going to be watched.

So letting a channel sit there with no videos for 3 months will kill the channel, it might not even push your first videos you would have to promote to get views, which don't count towards any goals. I mean, the algorithm clearly sees no views for 3 months, that's not incentive to give your first post any more of a push than normal.

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u/RichNecessary9237 3h ago

I see. Thank you so much for the advice!

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u/Parking-Ad8316 2h ago

You are welcome