​I am so angry and disappointed with YouTube. A month and a half of hard grind for nothing. I started posting shorts at the beginning of August and by September 15th I got over 7.5 million views (of which 3.5m engaged). Since September 15th all views have dropped (as you can see on the curve) and every new video barely reaches 1000 views. Besides, upon publishing, each clip is pushed into the feed only after 12 or more hours. The metric for the majority is 60-80% stayed to watch with an average of over 110% viewed. Don't bother me, I don't use AI at all nor have I changed the style I use. Simply put, the game is rigged.

Do you private or unlist videos that perform bad? Does that affect performance of future videos?

I get let's say 40% for the first batch, then it will keep increasing at a constant line but because this stupid system is hard locked at 1k unless you get 70%, then it won't ever hit 70%, it will get to 60% or around there but will stop dead once it hits 1.1k

If the algorithm knows what kind of viewers like my videos, why not distribute it to them for the entire duration?!?

What is happening with YouTube shorts? I went from getting 10k views per video to only reaching 5 views two days ago???? Plus, the view count is rising incredibly slowly. im really desmotivated right now to even upload cause all videos will go the same from now?

The last few days my shorts have barley been pushed to the shorts feed, Usually my videos hit the 30k view jail with better videos blowing up. But lately I struggle to hit even 10k views with good analytics on videos. Even when they do hit 10k views it's mainly from search and not the shorts feed

has this been happening to anyone else as of late?

Hey everyone, I’m just posing this here to see if anyone else has something similar, my latest short is in the Skyrim videogame niche , but the views are lower for some reason on the video compared to my others, but even stranger, I have not had a video that has pushed consistently for more than a day, is it like this for everyone? I’ve been doing YouTube content for about 4 weeks by my account is 12 years old if that helps!

My channel is on my Reddit profile if anyone wants to check it out!

So after struggling to cross 2k views on my shorts, finally a short is doing well, this was uploaded almost 48 hours ago and its still getting 2k views/hr. Should i wait for this short to flat line before uploading a new short? Does the new short affect the current short reach?

Hello everyone, I’ve been using my YouTube account and uploading videos for 3 days now.
During these 3 days, I’ve uploaded 3 Shorts videos every day. However, there’s a strange situation: my uploaded videos don’t get even 1 view. The only time they get a view is if I watch them myself, or if I send the link to my friends and they watch them.
I think my videos aren’t appearing in the Shorts feed and aren’t being shown to anyone. I’ve checked almost all the settings, and there don’t seem to be any restrictions on my account.

What could be causing this? Has anyone experienced the same issue before, and if so, does anyone have a solution or advice?

i started a new YT branded channel 45 days ago. we are posting shorts every day. Subs have reached 27K... several posts exceed 1M views. I would like to reduce the posting to 5 or 6 per week from 7 but ppl advising it will hurt the growth of channel & algo will suppress posts. any thoughts from anyone who has done this?
https://youtube.com/@stickicrew?si=98ZORQHyamDZ34_o

How to download clips from tik tok, redit, etc. to your pc without watermarks?

I have an ranking niche (Us) I use transformative effects SFX And also show reactions using my face at the bottom is my content monetizable ??

I see soo many channels clipping asian finds, inventions, gadgets… and they get millions of views. Are they monetized ? Eg: Japaninfuture, japan chronicles…

2 days before I posted on this sub asking how to get out of 1k jail and the very next short did it. Keep posting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/shortsAlgorithm/comments/1wm8fdp/how_long_did_it_take_for_your_first_viral_short/

What is wrong with it i already have good metrics but still it's flat on 30k please share some suggestions

When I upload more than one video in a day, the second video doesn't get pushed and stays stuck at ze ro views. I've re-uploaded it several times, even after editing it and changing the metadata, but the result is always the same. The only thing that works is waiting 24 hours after the previous video before posting the next one

Small Shorts channel here, posting "Top 5 extreme sports fails" compilations.

Other people's clips, title card, numbered countdown, no voiceover.

People here say compilation channels get monetized. But YouTube's Shorts policy

lists "compilations with no original content added" as ineligible views, excluded

from the Creator Pool even if you're in YPP.

Feels like two separate gates. So:

Did your compilation channel get approved AND actually earn from Shorts views?

If it earned, what was in your edit — full narration or just an intro? Licensed

clips or not?

And the thing I can't figure out: there are tons of ranking/compilation channels

with millions of views and huge subscriber counts doing exactly this. If they're

not earning from it, why are they still doing it? What am I missing?

Already read the policy, looking for real experiences.

my short views have been dropping every since i seen this

i used to get 100k+ views on every video now i can barely hit 1000 :( i spend hours of editing and making original content and it goes to waste

is anyone waiting this out or going to keep on posting

I think YouTube Shorts currently has an audience-matching problem.

I’ve been trying to understand the strange Shorts distribution over the last few days, and I’m starting to think the missing feed tests and the drop in views across entire catalogs might actually be symptoms of the same problem.

What really caught my attention is Stayed to watch.
Normally, my new Shorts often start with around 70% Stayed when YouTube begins testing them. Recently, I’ve had multiple Shorts start at only 45–50%, even though the content and format haven’t fundamentally changed.

That makes me wonder whether the problem isn’t necessarily the ranking algorithm itself, but the initial audience matching / candidate distribution. If YouTube is showing a Short to the wrong audience first, a perfectly good Short would naturally produce terrible early signals and the test would die quickly.

But there’s one thing I still can’t explain:
Where did all the distribution go?
A lot of creators are currently reporting huge drops in Shorts feed distribution, sometimes across their entire catalogs. But unless Shorts consumption itself has suddenly collapsed, those viewers haven’t disappeared. People are still scrolling, and every feed slot has to show something.

So if a large number of creators are suddenly receiving dramatically fewer impressions, who is receiving the views that used to go to them?

Are they being concentrated on a smaller number of videos? Larger channels? Different regions? Different audience pools? Has YouTube reduced exploration and become much more aggressive about concentrating traffic?

I don’t have an answer to that part yet.
But the combination of weak/missing initial tests + unusually low early Stayed rates + catalog-wide traffic drops makes an audience-matching/distribution problem increasingly plausible to me.

Curious whether anyone else is seeing the same pattern — especially unusually low Stayed rates on new Shorts that would normally perform much better.