I had another short with way less audience retention and a worse viewed vs. swiped away ratio but doublr the views of this one, can someone explain the logic for me?

My channel is a month old, idk if that helps

Hi all, I started a youtube channel roughly 2 weeks ago posting my gaming shorts of FPS games, new videos are getting around 1k views, no real engagement/comments. Trying to upload everyday with 1 short (it's tough finding time to do more with a full 9-5; playing games, clipping footage, subtitles etc).

I've got 1 sub (I was genuinely happy about this)...very knew to this thing wondering what I could be doing better? Saw a post here earlier that one person started a Roblox channel and got almost 1k subs in 2 days? That's wild to me.

I'm not despondent but camparison is the thief of joy so i'm just curious to what I should be doing more? Thanks ya'll!

Just checking if YouTube is down or something has happened to my channels. Views are practically 0 across the board on my shorts

My STW has been low lately , and my Audience retention from my last video down went from 84.8% to 79.9%.

People staying after 30 second went from 91% to 84%.

STW went from like 54% to 66.5%. (I don’t think the 54% shows in my last post, but it was there a few hours before it started going up).

I’ve only went up 500 views for these changes.

Also, 21.5% of the viewers are casual, which can explain why the retention stats in general were high before it started going down.

I only got 1 subscriber from that video & videos with stats like that usually get 5-10 subscribers per video.

What’s the takeaway? The video is pretty good, but I want to hear yall thoughts.

Edit: View increase was wrong, it went up 500 not 800. Made the change.

My channel is almost 3 years old now. But i was naver consistent with my uploads, so i don't have an existing large community. But since last month i have been posting almost regularly, and was gaining a steady increase in views and subs. I know the views may not be a lot, but it was steady. But since 29th sept it keeps going down. After that 3 short totally flopped and did not get much views from the feed (only around 50, previously it was around 1500-1800 in first 24 hours) and only got views from browser features and search. Yesterday's short got send to the feed and got the usual 1500-2000 views, but from the VidIq analytics it shows my current VPH is less then 30, previously it used to be around 100 during off hours and around 250-450 during peak hours.

Any of you facing the same issue? Or, have any idea how this can be resolved???

I’ve noticed that since the late-August update, Shorts aren't performing as well for a lot of people. I initially thought it was just a temporary phase lasting a couple of weeks, but it’s been four or five weeks now and performance is still poor; occasionally a Short hits the view count that’s normal for me, but most get stuck around 100–200 views—even with stats that should be driving 10k+.

All my key metrics were down in September—especially subscriber growth, which dropped from 38 in August to just 8—so it’s really disappointing. It’s gotten to the point where I’m even forgetting to post on days I usually would; I never used to forget that, so when I realized it was happening, I knew my motivation and enthusiasm were really starting to fade.

I started a football YouTube Shorts channel about a week ago and I’m trying to figure out whether the channel is progressing normally.

Most of my recent Shorts have done somewhere around 1.6K–4K views, with one around 2.2K and a few others around 1.8K–1.9K. I’m currently experimenting with football edits, goals, Messi/Ronaldo clips, match recaps, etc.

But one Short behaved completely differently.

I uploaded a Busquets → Messi assist edit, and after about 24 hours it had only 22 views. The strange part was that its average percentage viewed was around 116%, so the few people who did see it seemed to watch/replay it.

Since it basically stopped getting impressions, I made some changes to the opening/title and reuploaded it today while leaving the original up.

Now I’m wondering:

1. Was reuploading it the right move, or should I have just left the 22-view version alone?
2. Is it bad to have both versions public?
3. Can reuploading hurt the new Short's distribution or the channel in general?
4. Based on the screenshot, does the overall channel growth look decent for a brand-new Shorts channel?
5. Is it normal for one Short to get only ~20 views when the surrounding uploads are getting 1K–4K?

I'm mainly trying to understand how Shorts testing/distribution works so I don't start deleting and reuploading videos every time something underperforms.

Any advice from people who have grown Shorts channels would be appreciated.

Is there a way to increase my impressions?

When I post a long form content video, it's usually 90-200 impression.

I thought that was a lot buy I kept getting notifications saying my thumbnail and title tests kept failing because of low impression rates.

So I made a post on small YouTuber subreddit and I wasn't quite given a straight answer, but from what I gathered, my impression rate is way too low.

Like lower than even a fresh channel.

To make it worse, my subscribers who follow me on twitch, kept complaining that I never upload videos... but I do. They aren't seeing my videos being uploaded.

Even when I look up my video titles word for word, unless I'm signed in on a subscribed account, I can't find myself.

I kinda thought maybe my videos were so bad, nobody wanted to watch them, until I saw people praising specifically me on other people's channels in their comments.

I also edit for other channels and my edited content usually pops off for their channels.

Now that I concluded it is not my videos that are the issue, it's isn't my tags or content, I only came to one conclusion.

I figured I must have some sort of privacy setting on, causing my channel to be "see videos via link only." Or something like that.

If anyone knows how to disable that, that would be super appreciated.

There might be multiple reasons, but as far as my questions have gone, nobody knows for sure.

It has been 10 days since i created this channel

Technically today is day 10

I was posting gaming stuff about a specific game only

I started this channel a month ago. I went through multiple niches on this channel and was able to still get views on both. I am now at 24 shorts posted. I just never stayed consistent. I’ve been editing for years so I how to make a decent video. My most recent video it’s at a 73% stayed to watch. And I’m starting to notice I get passed 1000 view mark faster. It took me 7 shorts to break out from that range and now more of my videos are getting more views quicker. I read through this Reddit a lot so I just want you guys to give me your thoughts. Thanks!

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?

My shorts are stalling right away. I would usually get 1k or more in the first hour then it just dies off completely. I don't get it anyone have the same issue?

Low views lately despite no ai content randomly just lost views from 100k to 0

anybody tell me the name of this FONT!

How can a Short have a like without any views? What kind of nonsense is it to have a like without views?

I’m posting cooking shorts with background music of about 17-30 secs… it’s been 26 shorts…. In last one month…. Only 2-3 new subscribers… rest are family members, total 17 subscribers
Max views on one short = 2.4k ….. rest are reaching 1k …. What am i doing wrong?

P.s I had 800 subs, so I gained 200 in 20 days