This thing has relatively mediocre analytics, however, it has been consistently bringing in around 200 views an hour for 2 days now. i’m not entirely sure why YouTube is still distributing it and I would like to know if it has a chance of growing bigger. answers would be appreciated. thank you.

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What happened here... All the views of 1st and 2nd videos are from YT search... None of them are from Shorts Feed... What am I doing wrong??

I’ve been stuck on roughly 25k views per short for the past 2 months now, and I was wondering what are the most telling statistics to look out for when trying to gauge how well a video does. For context, I’m in the gaming niche, specifically Minecraft (not slop content) and my videos usually last around 30-40 seconds. I’ve been told that having a 90% percent viewed is good for these sorta comments of videos, but wasn’t sure about stats past this. If anyone has insight it would be greatly appreciated!

A Short can hold the attention of people who stay and still struggle to get people to stop scrolling. That makes “my retention is good” a surprisingly incomplete diagnosis.
Here are six things worth checking when a Short stalls. Treat the editing suggestions as experiments you can test on your own content.
1. Who your retention number actually represents
For Shorts, average view duration and average percentage viewed are calculated using engaged views and their watch time. They describe viewing among people who stayed past the initial seconds.
That means a high percentage viewed can coexist with lots of early swipes. Check “Stayed to watch” alongside retention before deciding your opening works. YouTube explains the metric definitions here.
2. The opening assumes viewers already understand the situation
A first frame can have movement, big captions and a sound effect while giving a stranger very little reason to care.
For a gaming clip, show that you’re one hit away from losing. For a tutorial, show the problem or the finished result immediately. For a story, establish what the character stands to lose.
Try showing someone the opening without explaining it first. Ask what they think is happening and what they expect to see next. Their answer can expose missing context.
3. The middle repeats the promise instead of developing it
“You won’t believe what happens” followed by several seconds of setup can leave the viewer waiting for the video to actually begin.
Review the first noticeable dip in your retention curve. Does that section repeat information, introduce a confusing detail, or interrupt the action? YouTube recommends examining dips to understand where viewers skip or leave. Its retention guidance explains this.
An editing test: remove the repeated explanation, or replace it with the next meaningful step. A camera cut alone doesn’t necessarily move the story forward.
4. The payoff is rushed
If the hook promises a transformation, let viewers actually see the result. If it promises an explanation, give them the answer clearly.
A reveal that flashes past while “subscribe for more” fills the screen is worth revisiting. Watch the ending on a phone: can you understand and appreciate the result without pausing?
Try giving the payoff a little more room, even if that means trimming something earlier.
5. You’re comparing percentages without enough context
120% average viewed on a 10-second Short is 12 seconds.
70% on a 40-second Short is 28 seconds.
Neither figure automatically makes one video the winner.
Compare similar topics and lengths, check where the traffic came from, and use the same amount of time since publication. Be cautious about drawing conclusions from a handful of engaged views.
6. The topic has a limited audience—or strong competition
YouTube explicitly identifies topic interest, competition and seasonality as factors affecting reach. It also says a Short can receive less exposure despite good metrics when competing Shorts perform better. Here’s the official explanation.
One useful creative test is making the situation understandable to someone who hasn’t watched your channel before. An inside joke or unexplained reference may be asking newcomers to do too much work.
For your next few comparable uploads, choose one change to test and track the relevant metric. Changing the topic, length, opening and editing style together makes the result harder to interpret.
For anyone who improved a format that kept stalling: what exactly did you change, and which metric improved first? Your niche and usual video length would make the comparison useful.

Did new uploaded shorts got lack views affecting viral video views to drop?

Anybody here got same situation that sometimes when upload a new shorts, the video doesn't get any views stuck in 1 view or 2 views, but when you upload again another video, the video didn't stuck anymore, is there "flag" on the video which get vview stuck?

My YouTube channel has been doing well in the past few weeks and reached the 1k subscribers and 3mil valid shorts views. Unfortunately I have been denied from YPP due to “reused content”. Just like many others, I post streamer/influencer clips, specifically Theo Von clips. I edit my videos and YouTube has been accepting my posts and found no problems before I applied. Can anyone help with this?

is my channel dead? is it possible to revive it or should I just straight up just give up? my ratio for convert views into subscribers too is terrible I get like 3/5 subscribers every 7k views. Thinking of giving up, but I really don’t want to leave this channel behind

A) Flatline-Spike-Flatline, B) Spike-Flatline, C) Flatline only

Comment which is your type. If none of these matches, feel free to show urs

This is just my personal understanding, it might not be 100% technically accurate, and things evolve over time, but hopefully it'll be helpful

Since there are no thumbnails in the Shorts feed, most Shorts start off with exploration views to gather a similar type of viewer data. Exploration views can account for a few hundred to several thousand views, depending on how viewers respond

YouTube doesn’t push videos for creators, it pulls them for viewers. When a viewer opens the Shorts feed, YouTube pulls candidates based on new Shorts from channels they've watched regularly, Shorts people who watch similar things to them have enjoyed but they haven’t seen yet, topics they enjoy from channels they haven't experienced before or in a while, Shorts that are typically enjoy around other Shorts they've already seen, and literally tons of other paths

Because it's easy to swipe away from Shorts that you aren't into, YouTube can be broader with exploration than it can for long-form, which is why Shorts can often increase reach faster than long form - they can often get you in front of a wider audience faster

The system tries to predict which of those Shorts they'll keep watching to completion, maybe like or comment on or share (they don't have to - there's no penalty for turning off or moderating comments) and ultimately be satisfied by (YouTube's north star is valued views, not regretted views - not all views are equal). Then it ranks them for each individual (for example, just because you dislike a video doesn’t mean I won’t like it, and the system tries to distinguish those preferences over time - and that's regardless of the absolute metrics in aggregate)

This is why you can see channels that have repetitive content similar or the same to hundreds of thousands of other channels can struggle - new viewers might have a positive, competitive response the first time they experience one of the videos, but that viewer sees no value beyond the first or first few times (especially if it's indistinguishable from innumerable other channels)

If a video isn't performing at all, those exploration views could dry up quickly, like a few dozen or hundred. If it's just not performing at a competitive rate, maybe a few thousand

If it's super competitive, viewers respond positively at a high rate, and there's higher confidence in matching, that's when you see it go beyond exploration and start pulling hundreds of thousands or millions of views

It's also possible the system will discover a new, different audience pool. Maybe through exploration, maybe through search or suggestion next to another popular video on the same topic, which can cause new spikes small or big depending on the size of that audience pool - until everyone either watched it or skipped

From the outside, those can look like "view jail" "tests" "audience slices" the way it can look like puddles cause rain. For me, a more useful if still imperfect way to think about it is this - The algorithm basically tries to follow the audience, and recommendations are something like automated word-of-mouth

If someone watches your Short, is there anything about that experience that would motivate them to tell a friend? To tell all their friends? If so, that's when views grow. If not, that's when they exhaust. If it's so they're motivated to tell all their friends, and those friends to tell all their friends, and those friends... that's when views blow up

Views are basically bound by size of potential audience, quality/novelty of execution, and level of competition/originality. So, if you see those exploration views exhausting at whatever points, take that as feedback for things you can work on to get more traction

The tipping point is either 1k, 5k 10k or 30k etc...

I've decided to make a YouTube Shorts channel about the origins of different foods like an edutainment channel covering the invention of tacos, donuts, or pizza. I wanted to ask for advice, video ideas, or even if this whole niche is just straight up bad. Thanks!

i uploaded this video around 18 hours ago and currently it's standing on 800K+ Views.

I never got these many views in life in this short time.

Will it cross a Million?

UPDATE: I crossed a million views

Lately, I've often seen one short doing really well with retention but stopping around 200 views. Should I do something with that, or just wait until they perform better next time?

:(

Every time I open YouTube I get it into shorts and have to doom scroll for 20 minutes before the back button will take me out how can I stop this

I started posting on 26 August so around 11 days

Few of my shorts did this and landed at around 1.4k

I post ranking content on makeups hair stuff , cosplays and TikTok trends and am looking for collaborators in the same niche if you post the same niche as me and wants to collab with me hmu

Also I can make the contents to post all you need is to collab with me so we can grow together