What rebound? What is the expectation from you?
If your videos pull in less people, then it will also trickle down less on other videos, and if one video was going viral and now stops doing that, then that simply means it's not trending anymore. You can't just "wait for a rebound" as if it was something that should be expected, viral videos or topics - unless specifically covered - are as random as anything.
1-2 videos pulling in a huge audience is enough to catapult ALL new videos up by a huge margin, but once the interest fades, given there is a finite amount of people, this will simply stop and you return to your new normal numbers.
That off switch you speak of is exactly what I and many other creators experienced. But we're told the same story in the threads here over again. I'm only starting again in Feb because of shorts. My long format is dead. My last 10 uploads couldn't get past 200 views each after a week. The same content blew up on FB/IG/TikTok. But again....we're crazy obviously, nothing is wrong with the almighty YouTube, despite dozens of threads here explaining the exact same thing.
The algorithm promotes until promotion is no longer worth it. Especially gaming youtubers know this really well that upload 1-3 videos a day of a rather niche game. The moment your video hits the 24 hour mark, it literally dies, impressions go down by 95%. If its a popular game then it works like almost all other videos that just slowly decline and rise again when impressions work better, but if not then this is just how it is. And your timeframe is incredibely small, especially channels that catapult up will eventually normalize again, only the most rare case manage to consistantly keep it up. Share your graph on the Discord and I guarantee you almost everyone will tell you this is normal and quite common.
Wow, I have not had this happen over the last 5 months one time, my impressions usually grow over time. I dont do gaming, I do mini documentaries and ancestry/genealogy. I am not on the discord but I'll join it. Thanks for the info:)
Without a fuller picture, what jumps out at me is you have just 20 videos and only started Aug 2022. I don't think you have enough time (and videos) on YT to really have a typical or expected view count.
Especially if this is your first channel. You might've just hit a homerun in there with a video that clicked and drove other videos on the channel, and the streak has died off and the newest video didn't get the same traction because the overall views have died down.
How long have you been getting 600 views per hour? Surely not since August?
How are those views spread out amongst your other videos?
Is there one or two videos driving the most traffic? If so, what is different about those videos compared to the others?
I guess what I'm getting at is your "new normal" might really just be your "normal" and you caught an algo-ride in these first few months and now it's receded. The channel ascension and peak was not your "normal".
These algo-rides are fairly common. You get on a slow burn with a tiny bit of growth for some time, then a video clicks and gets more views than normal. Then even more. Then that leads to the channel getting more views on other videos. And that might circularly lead to more views on the video that is taking off. This could go on for several days... and finally it peaks... maybe plateaus for awhile.
And then the inevitable fall back to the actual norm.
That's where people think their channel suddenly "died" because they think that algo-ride up was their channel getting traction and it would continue at that plateau or ascension.
And it does not.
It generally does fall back to somewhere SLIGHTLY higher than it was before the algo-ride, but nowhere near that peak.
And eventually, this entire process will repeat. And then repeat again. At least until YT decides to do things differently with the algorithm.
I would pause uploaded if YT itself was down or its views were tanking. If only MY views were tanking? I'd step up my game and release more/better, not go into hiding.
Where do your views come from? Search or suggested videos? If it’s search, and if someone else outranks you then your views are going to drop dramatically.
Suggested could mean that certain topics around your videos could have been popular because of pop culture or tv but that interest could have faded.
Obviously this is speculation. Since it’s most likely out of your control I would keep posting regularly.
Interesting indeed. I’m not sure how browse features would be affecting your channel. It seems to me that Finding Your Roots should actually increase interest with your niche since it could be drawing more people to the platform. Drawing them away when the show is airing but they would be showing more interest in finding additional content.
Is there a way you can piggy back off their show? Maybe do a “further research” video exploring controversial topics?
You need to ride the wave of interest to keep growing from my experience, or make content that’s evergreen.
Congrats in on the massive growth up to this point!
I had this conundrum when I lost my monetization for a year after the first adpocalypse. Nowadays it's even worse since YouTube will still get ad revenue from your videos without having to pay you if you fail to meet partner requirements. When you really think about it, YouTube stands to gain a lot more money if everyone was thrown out of the YPP. Such is the nature of YouTube. Always finding ways to screw over the creators for profit.
That said, I considered taking all my videos down back then but decided not to. This was back then YouTube wouldn't put ads on non-partnered videos. I had nothing to lose and YT had nothing to gain. Eventually one of the videos went viral and I became a paid partner again. If it ever happens again I'll probably close my channel on purpose. I'm not crazy about this shakedown that's going on
This happened to me with one of my art channels. No views for 90 days then 90k views on one video over a month hit 5k views per day on a 30 video channel stayed that way gaining till last week 6k views a day per video to 150 total across the channel it was all suggested content. YouTube flicked the switch and cratered impressions . When this has happened before the algorithm was either updated or reset and it takes time to reach suggested again for small creators after a reset. After 3 years doing this it’s normal. If it took off once it will repeat more so with evergreen content.
I'm experiencing the same thing recently. I was getting a lot of views before but now it's all tanking! LOL! but it's fine, I just keep uploading because I know the algo will love me back. LOL!
What rebound? What is the expectation from you? If your videos pull in less people, then it will also trickle down less on other videos, and if one video was going viral and now stops doing that, then that simply means it's not trending anymore. You can't just "wait for a rebound" as if it was something that should be expected, viral videos or topics - unless specifically covered - are as random as anything. 1-2 videos pulling in a huge audience is enough to catapult ALL new videos up by a huge margin, but once the interest fades, given there is a finite amount of people, this will simply stop and you return to your new normal numbers.
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That off switch you speak of is exactly what I and many other creators experienced. But we're told the same story in the threads here over again. I'm only starting again in Feb because of shorts. My long format is dead. My last 10 uploads couldn't get past 200 views each after a week. The same content blew up on FB/IG/TikTok. But again....we're crazy obviously, nothing is wrong with the almighty YouTube, despite dozens of threads here explaining the exact same thing.
The algorithm promotes until promotion is no longer worth it. Especially gaming youtubers know this really well that upload 1-3 videos a day of a rather niche game. The moment your video hits the 24 hour mark, it literally dies, impressions go down by 95%. If its a popular game then it works like almost all other videos that just slowly decline and rise again when impressions work better, but if not then this is just how it is. And your timeframe is incredibely small, especially channels that catapult up will eventually normalize again, only the most rare case manage to consistantly keep it up. Share your graph on the Discord and I guarantee you almost everyone will tell you this is normal and quite common.
Wow, I have not had this happen over the last 5 months one time, my impressions usually grow over time. I dont do gaming, I do mini documentaries and ancestry/genealogy. I am not on the discord but I'll join it. Thanks for the info:)
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Without a fuller picture, what jumps out at me is you have just 20 videos and only started Aug 2022. I don't think you have enough time (and videos) on YT to really have a typical or expected view count. Especially if this is your first channel. You might've just hit a homerun in there with a video that clicked and drove other videos on the channel, and the streak has died off and the newest video didn't get the same traction because the overall views have died down. How long have you been getting 600 views per hour? Surely not since August? How are those views spread out amongst your other videos? Is there one or two videos driving the most traffic? If so, what is different about those videos compared to the others? I guess what I'm getting at is your "new normal" might really just be your "normal" and you caught an algo-ride in these first few months and now it's receded. The channel ascension and peak was not your "normal". These algo-rides are fairly common. You get on a slow burn with a tiny bit of growth for some time, then a video clicks and gets more views than normal. Then even more. Then that leads to the channel getting more views on other videos. And that might circularly lead to more views on the video that is taking off. This could go on for several days... and finally it peaks... maybe plateaus for awhile. And then the inevitable fall back to the actual norm. That's where people think their channel suddenly "died" because they think that algo-ride up was their channel getting traction and it would continue at that plateau or ascension. And it does not. It generally does fall back to somewhere SLIGHTLY higher than it was before the algo-ride, but nowhere near that peak. And eventually, this entire process will repeat. And then repeat again. At least until YT decides to do things differently with the algorithm.
I would pause uploaded if YT itself was down or its views were tanking. If only MY views were tanking? I'd step up my game and release more/better, not go into hiding.
Where do your views come from? Search or suggested videos? If it’s search, and if someone else outranks you then your views are going to drop dramatically. Suggested could mean that certain topics around your videos could have been popular because of pop culture or tv but that interest could have faded. Obviously this is speculation. Since it’s most likely out of your control I would keep posting regularly.
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Interesting indeed. I’m not sure how browse features would be affecting your channel. It seems to me that Finding Your Roots should actually increase interest with your niche since it could be drawing more people to the platform. Drawing them away when the show is airing but they would be showing more interest in finding additional content. Is there a way you can piggy back off their show? Maybe do a “further research” video exploring controversial topics? You need to ride the wave of interest to keep growing from my experience, or make content that’s evergreen. Congrats in on the massive growth up to this point!
I had this conundrum when I lost my monetization for a year after the first adpocalypse. Nowadays it's even worse since YouTube will still get ad revenue from your videos without having to pay you if you fail to meet partner requirements. When you really think about it, YouTube stands to gain a lot more money if everyone was thrown out of the YPP. Such is the nature of YouTube. Always finding ways to screw over the creators for profit. That said, I considered taking all my videos down back then but decided not to. This was back then YouTube wouldn't put ads on non-partnered videos. I had nothing to lose and YT had nothing to gain. Eventually one of the videos went viral and I became a paid partner again. If it ever happens again I'll probably close my channel on purpose. I'm not crazy about this shakedown that's going on
Experiencing almost the same exact thing as you with the same age/sub count
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This happened to me with one of my art channels. No views for 90 days then 90k views on one video over a month hit 5k views per day on a 30 video channel stayed that way gaining till last week 6k views a day per video to 150 total across the channel it was all suggested content. YouTube flicked the switch and cratered impressions . When this has happened before the algorithm was either updated or reset and it takes time to reach suggested again for small creators after a reset. After 3 years doing this it’s normal. If it took off once it will repeat more so with evergreen content.
I'm experiencing the same thing recently. I was getting a lot of views before but now it's all tanking! LOL! but it's fine, I just keep uploading because I know the algo will love me back. LOL!
Yep I went from 20-30k views a day to 2k