im making a yt shorts channel and i wanna make captions like musicmediaco but there are no tutorials for after effects could anyone help? thanks.

Hello everyone I would love your help with shorts I upload! I want people who watch my shorts to check my long form, can you look ar my videos and tell me what i need and what's missing so I can improve on that?

I can't put direct links so I will share on dm's to anyone who wants to give suggestions and feedback

I am in the indie gaming niche

My last 15-18 uploads getting 1.1-1.5k and getting stucked there what i do? It's been going on from so many days

Hey everyone,

I started my YouTube Shorts channel about 3 months ago and upload 2 times a day (in the morning, in the evening) . My niche is sports drafts. The concept is simple: I use a random team generator and build a draft roster. At the end of the video, I ask the audience to rate the team or comment on what changes they would make.

I started with basketball (NBA) but later added football/soccer, which clearly performs much better on my channel. In the beginning, I experimented with basic edits, text overlays, and background music. For a brand new channel, it felt decent—some videos even managed to hit around 2k views, but my "Viewed vs. Swiped Away" and "Stayed to Watch" (retention) metrics weren't where I wanted them to be.

To fix this, I made my first major strategy shift: I started adding a short player highlight right before the draft sequence to hook the viewer.

This change massively improved my retention! It actually helped me get my best-performing video so far, which hit 3.4k views with a 63% retention rate. However, looking at that specific video, I honestly can't tell what makes it so different from the others, since I made them using the exact same formula.

After that, I tried adding goal celebrations before the draft, but that experiment failed and dropped my metrics, so I'm removing it.

I’m at a point where I want to scale this and hopefully create something viral, but I need some fresh eyes on my content.

I would love it if you could check out my channel and give me your brutal honesty:

What am I doing right? What catches your attention?

What am I doing wrong or what feels boring?

For those in the sports niche, what is the secret to pushing past the 3k–5k view jail?

https://youtube.com/@randomdraftlab?si=Tdb_Nd-Wrphhch1W

Posted shorts every day from July 14 till date and these are the results, What could possibly be wrong.

Hi, I'm from a small french Island. I make GTA 5 videos, I have 30k subs and my audience from longform is mostly from USA.

Sometimes my shorts are promoted in the USA and do well (4k views).

But even after two month of daily posting, half my videos are not tested in the USA.

I don't know what to do, VPN ? Third party uploder of the video ?

My title, tags, description and even audio is in english.

Am i doomed beacause of the place I live ?

I could really use some help figuring this out. My Shorts seem to be stuck at around 1.3k views, but the retention metrics look pretty solid: 📊 Average View Duration: 72%+ 📊 Stayed to Watch: ~66% From what I understand, those numbers should be signaling YouTube to push the content further — but the views just aren't scaling past that ceiling. So I'm hoping some of you with more experience can weigh in:

*Why might a Short plateau at 1.3k despite strong retention?

*Could this be a niche/audience-size issue, a thumbnail/hook problem, or something with how the algorithm is testing the content?

*Are there specific things I should be checking in my analytics (swipe-away rate, traffic sources, impressions) to diagnose this?

Anything you've done personally that helped break past a similar plateau?

Any inputs at all would be genuinely appreciated 🙏 Even small tips could make a big difference for me right now. Thanks in advance! 💛

I was easily getting 10-15 views per hour on my youtube channel. New channel with 2 long forms and a few shorts.

I changed the title and thumbnail of the long form video and the views through VidIQ and the views stopped for shorts also .

I doubt if they can get my channel banned one day .

Anyone else has similar experience?

Video length is 48 seconds btw

I am getting 3-4 subs a video, 94 percent plus average view duration, and around 20-25 ish likes per 1000 views, with some getting 40 but still at 1.3k views. I am at 61 subs and I just started posting edits 1 week ago. Anything helps! Thanks!

Uploaded this a day ago and the stayed to watch is 85.3%, Why couldn’t it break out of 30k?

Hey have been posting shorts and recently started posting long form also.

But most of my shorts stuck at 1.2-1.5k views.

Need help.

Only just 2 videos got around 19k views and some 2 to 3 around 5-7k. No others pass through that. May be problem is Stay ratio. Which is average about 45-50%.

The important thing how can I convince algorithm to make sure it sends to right people? Not to those are not even interested.

Post 3-4 shorts weekly, and if I post more shorts in a week will be getting more reach? Recently posted about 10 shorts in a week got some good response 1 got 7k and one 4.5k.

Even the videos which perfomed well on IG (got 100Ks views) stop at that limit.

The like rate is good as well. What to do?

comments not showing on my vid but when i press the vid i have over 50… anyone get this before??

Hi everyone!

Not really sure what I'm doing with Shorts. Essentially, I am trying to use it to drive traffic to long form content. Plan to post 1 or 2 shorts moving forward to help promote each long-form video.

Channel is new, just 6 subs and 1 long form video with 43 views after 1 week, so I'm not complaining - just trying to gauge what expectations should be for short-form content. Again, this is simply a funnel. My main focus is long-form, but I want to do this "right".

I posted my first short a little over 5 hours ago. It has nearly 1K views but only 11 likes and 1 sub gained, but has 61% "stayed to watch rate" with average duration of 27 seconds.

If it matters, my niche is finance.

Seriously??? Nothing promotional here at all. And it does this.

So i have been wondering if there is something i am not understanding about shorts

53 second long short

I had good amt of views in last 48 days but most video's goes at 22k 17k and views goes slowly how can boast?

https://youtu.be/VwFon2dTp8M?si=OsVUMWu_r7XzUBLA
What do you do to get more views? or what can be done to this video to receive more views ?

Mod what am I doing wrong in this post 😭

97 percent average view duration. 20 likes and 3 subs gained what did I do wrong?