NewTubers struggle to gain traction on YouTube Shorts

“I obviously checked the visibility is set to public and there are surely zero restrictions. Like I said Ive been monetized with my other channel for a year now and have started a few other channels that are at 200-500 subs so I’m no beginner. Im a good animator, video editor and sound designer and my quality is on par with some of the top channels in this new niche. But Ive never encountered a thing such as zero distribution even after 72 hours”

“Since your first channel always got impressions within 12 hours, I'd check the first bad stage. In Studio, confirm the videos are public and processed with no restrictions in the Content tab, then look at Reach for any impressions at all. If there are truly zero after 5 days, it's worth waiting a few more days before changing anything. A new channel in a different niche often needs its first uploads tested separately. Keep the format consistent for a couple more uploads before drawing a”

“same here. just 5 impressions after 6 days. youtube didnt even show my videos to people.”

“yeah did the second channel thing too, ambience is insanely saturated and yt has zero signal on it yet, your main channels history doesnt really carry over. dont push it from the main or watch it from the same login. give it 2-3 weeks and go super specific, like rainy tokyo cafe 3am type titles ppl actually search”

“this tracks, feels like new channels just dont exist to the algorithm for a bit”

“Did you try anything apart from continuing uploading normally? I did search it word by word on an incognito tab. But even though it came up, it was indexed/ranked pretty low for search. Ranked around the 50th+ video in the search results.”

“Used to happen to me too, sometimes new channel just sits in void for a week before algorithm even notice it exist”

“Ngl, maybe not looking hard enough it's me (and very small still). I make (usually) Splatoon gameplay edit montages with my sister. The thing is, usually when I watch others, 9/10 times it's only their cool "look at how good I am" clips. I prefer montages that show both good and bad things happening to the player. It comes across as "more authentic" than cherry picking only when you do something cool.”

“Yeah, timing is so critical. It's tough to recognize opportunities in real time.”

“Would you consider being a "hindsight is 2020" let's plat. Maybe do a critique commentary on your actions and choices? Maybe from a third person perspective. Add context.”

“Ummm... I don't actually know? Are there any big let's play style channels around, or all they all just the second channels of commentary channels that stream on twitch on the side nowadays? I try to be a lot like old youtube gaming, just a quiet nerdy guy in his room playing games with an average level of skill and occasionally making a comment or a joke about the situation. Though I don't even do the style of intro/outro that was popular when I was growing up on youtube. You know,”

“I questions how much clout you can actually get from collabs.”

“the biggest channel in my niche has been stuck at 960k subs for like 2 years, even despite having a collab with moistcr1tikal / penguinz0 like a month ago. at this point, its a more a lesson on what not to do lol”

“Nice. I noticed a lot of major content creators preface the videos with a highlight reel of the most exciting moments of the entire video.”

“I follow a few channels that pull 100k+ views per video and the main thing I've noticed is they rarely waste the first 15 seconds on a logo or long intro. They just get straight to the point and hook you immediately. My retention graphs were embarrassing until I cut all that fluff and started treating the first 30 seconds like a trailer for the rest of the video.”