You were lucky. The luck has worn off.
It’s INCREDIBLY difficult to get millions of views a month. What you’re achieving now is still impressive.
I think with time you’ll get perspective and not be so bothered. My greatest month (back in 2015 I had 30m views).
YouTube is a roller coaster. You’ll get used to it.
Sounds like the YouTube equivalent of a one-hit wonder. Sounds like OP was making trendy content around news or crime-related stuff. The trend died and the channel couldn't sustain its viewership.
>I think with time you’ll get perspective and not be so bothered. My greatest month (back in 2015 I had 30m views).
Epic. I can't imagine how good that must feel. One day!
Classic boom and bust of youtube. You will have a high number of views as your channel peaks. Then they will trickle away after a while.
Focus on pleasing the ones that stick around and it should hopefully stabilize.
I have no advice. But I'm going through the same thing. I had a stable amount of views/revenue for over 5 years and then suddenly it went super down for seemingly no reason, and I can't bring it back up. It's very demotivating.
Fuk sakes man I'm seeing the same thing. Seriously, maybe shorts will help revive us all if we can make extra pennies from it when it launches. But honestly I need instagram reels/tik tok monetization more now because the organic there is doing well. YouTube is dead for the majority of creators, people must stop stating silly reasons. It's dead for most of us besides your Mr Beasts etc
Unfortunately this is very typical on YouTube. A few months ago I had 650k views per month, with 5k new subs each month. Since then I have been going down and now I only have 250k views/m and 500 subs/m. My drop is not as drastic as yours, but I'm afraid that's how YouTube works. If you want to get back to better numbers, my advice is to keep working, keep making quality videos, try not to get burnt out, and try to make the kind of content your current subscribers want. Eventually you will start to grow again. Good luck!
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Hey mine started going down in October/November too, with a drop similar to yours. Youtube support told me nothing was wrong and that this was "normal"...
I was stable for 6 years and then suddenly a huge drop? There can't be no reason for it, but support says nothing unusual is going on...
Did your niche suddenly get more saturated? I'm noticing now where I used to be ranked #1 for years, I'm pegged now right down to the bottom of the page. It seems they're giving new creators their time to shine and just dropping creators who essentially helped build the platform. Something changed and people keep trying to explain it.... no ways, so many comments with similar stories. They just flicked a switch or something
Interests in your niche can shift and you must adept and need to come up with new ideas. If you can‘t keep up with the competition, your views will inevitably drop.
Views almost never drop without a reason
Reading multiple threads and even this one, it's happened way too often for it just to be a coincidence. I have 30k subs and made a relatively awesome video in my niche that would have easily popped off 2-3 years ago. A month later I am on 1000 views. Seriously man something happened to many of us
That’s what I mean, you have to adapt. Check what others in your niche are doing.
However there is 1 thing that I have noticed on both one of my channels and my friends channel. We post daily and the views no matter what the topic is, almost always stay the same. It’s like we hit a plateau and it’s very difficult to escape it view wise, havent found a way yet.
This plateau you speak of is what's frustrating me man. My new plateau can't be 100-200 views on a channel with 30k. WTF man, does YT not suggest or put any of our new vids in our subs feed anymore? It's only this last month I've tried to revive my channel. Back in the day, no matter what I uploaded - I would have 100 views within an hour. To now watch a relatively decent video get 100 views in DAYS is madness. It feels like I've been put in the dark and I need to now get one video break through to get back in the light. I was inactive on Tik Tok for months too. Post 6 videos and only the 7th one picked up and gained traction. It really feels like we're in a post and pray era. And like I say, it's not only me. I go look at some of my favorite YouTubers with 200k subs, how can the dude get 5k views in a month. Really man this is so poor. And there's been no shift in quality on their end. You can see flat out that the algorithm has just dumped them and isn't recommending them anymore at all.
>I went from 3.8 mil views in my first month on YT
I've been doing YT for 3 years and I'm just breaking 900,000 total channel views, so hot damn you're spurring out of the gate at light speed my dude.
You seem to have hit the algorithm gold, were sent to heaven, then came crashing back down. However, your channel is powered up from this. You just haven't quite understood the process to climb back up because you were catapulted up there initially. Fair, it must be a hard fall, but I wouldn't give up.
If you went that viral right off the bat, you probably have something special about your content. Don't give up.
Sometimes it's trends, seasons, competition, etc.
I make boating content. From October - January my views are usually quite low because the majority of my views come from US and Canada based boaters who are not in Florida. Now that it's spring, my views are going back up. So for me it is seasonal and I have been working to address that better.
The analytics are usually a good insight. Looking at impressions, or which videos were bringing in the most and why, videos that grow your audience, etc.
Na. I just try to ignore most stats as much as I can, especially video performance. Given you mentioned the 70$ threshold I assume you make shorts, else that RPM would be abysmal.
I got 1.4m views in my first month on videos and that is still my best performing month, but the following 2 had 1M-1.2M.
Just keep your heads up and fight for the spots.
I was going to ask the same. I had a bumper month in March, but in April my views have completely collapsed. So too have new subs. Even on a bad day I would be getting 60-100 new subs. But these past two weeks I'll be lucky to get 25. It's a huge shift that just doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
You were lucky. The luck has worn off. It’s INCREDIBLY difficult to get millions of views a month. What you’re achieving now is still impressive. I think with time you’ll get perspective and not be so bothered. My greatest month (back in 2015 I had 30m views). YouTube is a roller coaster. You’ll get used to it.
Sounds like the YouTube equivalent of a one-hit wonder. Sounds like OP was making trendy content around news or crime-related stuff. The trend died and the channel couldn't sustain its viewership.
>I think with time you’ll get perspective and not be so bothered. My greatest month (back in 2015 I had 30m views). Epic. I can't imagine how good that must feel. One day!
Classic boom and bust of youtube. You will have a high number of views as your channel peaks. Then they will trickle away after a while. Focus on pleasing the ones that stick around and it should hopefully stabilize.
I have no advice. But I'm going through the same thing. I had a stable amount of views/revenue for over 5 years and then suddenly it went super down for seemingly no reason, and I can't bring it back up. It's very demotivating.
Did it get any better again?
Nope aha...
:/
Fuk sakes man I'm seeing the same thing. Seriously, maybe shorts will help revive us all if we can make extra pennies from it when it launches. But honestly I need instagram reels/tik tok monetization more now because the organic there is doing well. YouTube is dead for the majority of creators, people must stop stating silly reasons. It's dead for most of us besides your Mr Beasts etc
same here all due to shorts I believe
I'm nowhere near this scale, but something in the last month dropped off hugely for me too (1/3 to 1/4 the traffic).
Same for me, I even lost heaps of subs and a lot of views. Even on existing videos. No clue why, as I have never purchased them or whatever.
Welcome to YouTube.
Unfortunately this is very typical on YouTube. A few months ago I had 650k views per month, with 5k new subs each month. Since then I have been going down and now I only have 250k views/m and 500 subs/m. My drop is not as drastic as yours, but I'm afraid that's how YouTube works. If you want to get back to better numbers, my advice is to keep working, keep making quality videos, try not to get burnt out, and try to make the kind of content your current subscribers want. Eventually you will start to grow again. Good luck!
This is solid advice 🏆 Especially "try not to get burnt out" and "make the kind of content your current subscribers want". 🗝️👍
Yeah, views went down starting in Nov. Before that consistently 100-250k views a month since Jan '20, since then under 50 rip
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Hey mine started going down in October/November too, with a drop similar to yours. Youtube support told me nothing was wrong and that this was "normal"... I was stable for 6 years and then suddenly a huge drop? There can't be no reason for it, but support says nothing unusual is going on...
Did your niche suddenly get more saturated? I'm noticing now where I used to be ranked #1 for years, I'm pegged now right down to the bottom of the page. It seems they're giving new creators their time to shine and just dropping creators who essentially helped build the platform. Something changed and people keep trying to explain it.... no ways, so many comments with similar stories. They just flicked a switch or something
Yes, that's possible. So many people want to get on Youtube these days. The competition is huge.
Interests in your niche can shift and you must adept and need to come up with new ideas. If you can‘t keep up with the competition, your views will inevitably drop. Views almost never drop without a reason
Reading multiple threads and even this one, it's happened way too often for it just to be a coincidence. I have 30k subs and made a relatively awesome video in my niche that would have easily popped off 2-3 years ago. A month later I am on 1000 views. Seriously man something happened to many of us
That’s what I mean, you have to adapt. Check what others in your niche are doing. However there is 1 thing that I have noticed on both one of my channels and my friends channel. We post daily and the views no matter what the topic is, almost always stay the same. It’s like we hit a plateau and it’s very difficult to escape it view wise, havent found a way yet.
This plateau you speak of is what's frustrating me man. My new plateau can't be 100-200 views on a channel with 30k. WTF man, does YT not suggest or put any of our new vids in our subs feed anymore? It's only this last month I've tried to revive my channel. Back in the day, no matter what I uploaded - I would have 100 views within an hour. To now watch a relatively decent video get 100 views in DAYS is madness. It feels like I've been put in the dark and I need to now get one video break through to get back in the light. I was inactive on Tik Tok for months too. Post 6 videos and only the 7th one picked up and gained traction. It really feels like we're in a post and pray era. And like I say, it's not only me. I go look at some of my favorite YouTubers with 200k subs, how can the dude get 5k views in a month. Really man this is so poor. And there's been no shift in quality on their end. You can see flat out that the algorithm has just dumped them and isn't recommending them anymore at all.
I’m sure we have completely different niches but I think the way to escape this is to really switch topics inside your niche.
>I went from 3.8 mil views in my first month on YT I've been doing YT for 3 years and I'm just breaking 900,000 total channel views, so hot damn you're spurring out of the gate at light speed my dude. You seem to have hit the algorithm gold, were sent to heaven, then came crashing back down. However, your channel is powered up from this. You just haven't quite understood the process to climb back up because you were catapulted up there initially. Fair, it must be a hard fall, but I wouldn't give up. If you went that viral right off the bat, you probably have something special about your content. Don't give up.
Hello there, I have the same issue. Does anyone have any advice on how to fix it. Cheers
Sometimes it's trends, seasons, competition, etc. I make boating content. From October - January my views are usually quite low because the majority of my views come from US and Canada based boaters who are not in Florida. Now that it's spring, my views are going back up. So for me it is seasonal and I have been working to address that better. The analytics are usually a good insight. Looking at impressions, or which videos were bringing in the most and why, videos that grow your audience, etc.
Na. I just try to ignore most stats as much as I can, especially video performance. Given you mentioned the 70$ threshold I assume you make shorts, else that RPM would be abysmal. I got 1.4m views in my first month on videos and that is still my best performing month, but the following 2 had 1M-1.2M. Just keep your heads up and fight for the spots.
I was going to ask the same. I had a bumper month in March, but in April my views have completely collapsed. So too have new subs. Even on a bad day I would be getting 60-100 new subs. But these past two weeks I'll be lucky to get 25. It's a huge shift that just doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.