u/Active_Difficulty587

1 month ago I started my first YouTube Shorts channel with 0 experience and honestly I thought I’d quit after a week 😭

But something weird happened…

First 3 days:
I spent HOURS researching how Shorts channels actually grow and joined creator communities trying to learn everything possible.

Day 4:
Made the channel and literally didn’t touch it for a day because people kept saying new channels need to “rest”.

Day 5-10:
Instead of instantly posting, I started warming up the account naturally:

• watched videos in my niche
• engaged with content
• studied hooks and retention
• researched competitors
• made my first few videos

Then I finally started posting.

Day 11-14:
I uploaded 1 Short daily…

and instantly got stuck in the 30k view jail 💀

Every video stopped around the same range and I genuinely thought the channel was cooked.

But I kept posting anyway while researching swipe rate, hooks and retention.

Then out of nowhere…

Day 15-20:
3 videos crossed 100k+
and ONE randomly exploded past 1 MILLION views 🤯

I still don’t fully understand why that specific video blew up harder than the others.

By day 20 I had around 800 subscribers and finally started getting consistent traffic…

but then reality hit:
views ≠ money.

A creator from one of the communities showed me a method brands use for logo placements/sponsorships inside Shorts.

Day 24-30:
I tested it during a campaign and made around $200 in 6 days.

The campaign already ended unfortunately, but now I’m trying to improve retention even more and scale the channel further.

Biggest thing I learned from all this:

YouTube Shorts is WAY more about psychology than editing skill.

If your hook is weak, people swipe instantly.

If your pacing drops, retention dies.

And consistency matters more than motivation.

If anyone here is struggling with warming up a channel, escaping view jail or understanding Shorts retention, I put together a free PDF guide with everything I learned this month.

It’s linked in my bio.

exactly 1 month ago i started my journey as a youtuber 1 month ago posting short for content and found a secret hack

First 3 days i did research on how to start a channel and i joined a lot of community to get help and there i found out on how to exactly make a yt channel

day 4 i made my channel and left it for 1 day

day 5-10 i warmed up the channel by watching yt like a normal person and watched videos on my niche for 1-2h everyday till day 10 (also researched and made my first video)

day 11-14 i posted 1 short a day and found out that i was stuck on 30k view jail and started doing research again while posting daily

day 15-20 3 of my videos hit over 100k and 1 video hit 1mil ( i still dont know how i escaped the 30k view jail and i am still surprised )

day 20-23 since i got 800 subs now i was getting views but then i realised something i was making 0 money ( and then the person from the community helped me told me his sauce)

day 24-30 after getting the sauce i started adding logos to my videos which the brand paid me and in 6 days i made 200$ thanks to that and unfortunatly the campaign that brand was doing ended.

future plans :- gonna find another campaign and gonna post again

if you are someone who is having trouble on warming up yt or dont know what to just check my bio for the complete guide which has everything on how to make the acc to how to go viral. (its a pdf and its free)