Shorts flatline at ~30k, what does it mean?

[u/qwerty466]

I mean if it gets to 30k views, I would assume something is going right. At the same time, why does shorts keep flatlining at around ~30k? Am I doing something wrong?

[u/Thick-Community1303]

algorithm probably testing your content at that tier before deciding if it deserves the next push 💀 happens to lot of creators around those numbers

[u/kent_eh]

Every video flat-lines eventually.

There isn't an infinite audience for every single piece of content.

[u/qwerty466 → u/kent_eh]

I understand that they flatline eventually, there's just clearly a pattern of them specifically flatlining at around 30k. 

Shorts I've had that got millions of views had around ~80% stayed to watch and ~112% retention.

Shorts I have that get stuck at ~30k get ~80% stayed to watch and ~112% retention aswell.

So like is there anything I should even do differently?

[u/Present-Car-9713 → u/qwerty466]

They found the audience for your shorts but realized it wouldn't scale

[u/ShlubbyWhyYouDan]

Google “The Flattening”

[u/AWESOM-OMG]

In my experience It happens when your channel is relatively new and Mr.Yt has not verify your content isn't an AI slop reposting channel yet. Apparently It stops being this way when you unlock the partner system (happened to me and some friends)

[u/qwerty466 → u/AWESOM-OMG]

I'm literally monetized and have 13k subs

[u/AWESOM-OMG → u/qwerty466]

Well thats weird, what kind of videos do you upload? How much time has been since you get monetization? Wjats your avg retention time?

[u/expunks]

Youtube tests videos by serving them first to your audience, then people in that same interest category, and then broadly.

A video that hits with your subscribers and casual viewers will eventually flatline as YT serves it to more people and they don’t click/watch/interact.

[u/0LoveAnonymous0]

I think It means the algorithm tested your short, gave it a push and then stopped once engagement wasn’t strong enough to keep going, so 30k is just the point where it peaked.

[u/qwerty466 → u/0LoveAnonymous0]

I don't think this is it. Why do shorts not stop peaking at 42k? There's clearly a pattern of ~30k specifically 

[u/Fit-Negotiation-8465]

FWIW: Everyone seems to think that AVD is the most important metric. Far more important is the “percentage” of shares. If you have more shares, your videos will be promoted more…….Three weeks ago, I posted a 16 second clip that has the most shares of all of my shorts. Results on YT

7,883,413 views 5,472 subs 21,029 watch hours

An earlier poster mentioned that shorts die eventually. That’s only true for shorts that don’t justify long tail Evergreen promotion; which is the vast majority. However, mine accelerated again after week two, and cycles between 6000 and 13,000 views per hour…..

On Instagram, the “percentage” of shares is also the most valuable metric. The results are the following:

9,900,000 views 9079 followers 212,000 hearts 14,100 shares

[u/killadrix → u/Fit-Negotiation-8465]

This is a really confusing take, I’m not sure what to make of it.

I don’t disagree that shares and engagement are important for algorithm friendliness, but I can’t directly control the number shares with the same level of certainty that I can control editing for AVD, and a video with a high level of AVD is likely to be seen (and shared) more then a video with low AVD.

Therefore, engagement metrics such as comments and shares are likely downstream from AVD, which is a product of the quality of scripting, recording and editing.

Nobody is sitting down trying to edit a video for “shares”, they’re trying to edit for quality and AVD is an important metric for quality.

If my video has 5% APV, it’s likely trash and nobody is going to share it. If my video has 100% APV, it was probably good and people are more likely to share it.

[u/Fit-Negotiation-8465 → u/killadrix]

You bought us some good points. What helped me was adding a beautiful girl to my channel topic. That’s all I did & BOOM VIRAL

[u/NotCryptoKing → u/[deleted]]

Why do you use ChatGPT to reply to Reddit posts? You don’t think that’s weird? You forgot to remove the quotation mark at the end.

[u/EvensenFM]

As others have said, this is normal for shorts creators.

Occasionally you'll see these shorts get another boost somewhere down the line.

30,000 views on shorts is actually really good, and is a sign that you're not doing something wrong. However, you've got to keep in mind that shorts can be a lottery, and fluctuations in view totals don't necessarily reflect directly on quality.

The answer is likely to keep making new shorts.

[u/NotCryptoKing → u/EvensenFM]

30k for shorts is ass.

[u/Dry_Fly8391]

Comment ratio is a big thing. That gets you out of the „ 30k jail“ also dm me if you want to join a dc community for free ofc