u/Careless_Beginning61

've been running a Spanish Animation Shorts channel for about 2 months and I'm trying to understand if the channel is the problem or if I just need to keep going ( it a 2016 channel and i used last year to add some shorts but i diseabled them and i start from sratch this niche )

Here are my stats:

• Around 242k views in the last 28 days (+26%)
• +536 subscribers in the last 28 days ( im reaching now 1K subs )
• 120k unique viewers (+56%)
• About 900 watch hours
• I post 3–4 Shorts per week
• Audience: Mexico / Spanish-speaking Latin America

My Shorts usually get:

• 20k–30k views
• Occasionally 40k–50k (best is ~52k)
• Like ratio: 97–99%
• Viewed vs Swiped is usually 80–85% viewed
• Average view duration is around 23–24 seconds on 20–26 second Shorts (some loops go over 100% retention).

The strange thing is that almost every video seems to stop somewhere between 20k and 40k views. I rarely see a second push.

A YouTube expert told me the issue is probably the channel itself, and suggested starting a brand-new channel ( as everything and even the editing looks so profesisonal with the hook and end loopand all ! =

My questions are:

1. Has anyone experienced a similar "20k–40k Shorts jail"?
2. Did creating a new channel actually solve it? and put the same video after deleting them can resolve this ?
3. Or did you eventually break through on the same channel?
4. Looking at these numbers, is there anything that stands out as a likely bottleneck?

I'd really appreciate hearing from people who have actually experienced this rather than just guessing.

Thanks!

I've been running a Spanish Animation Shorts channel for about 2 months and I'm trying to understand if the channel is the problem or if I just need to keep going ( it a 2016 channel and i used last year to add some shorts but i diseabled them and i start from sratch this niche )

Here are my stats:

• Around 242k views in the last 28 days (+26%)
• +536 subscribers in the last 28 days ( im reaching now 1K subs )
• 120k unique viewers (+56%)
• About 900 watch hours
• I post 3–4 Shorts per week
• Audience: Mexico / Spanish-speaking Latin America

My Shorts usually get:

• 20k–30k views
• Occasionally 40k–50k (best is ~52k)
• Like ratio: 97–99%
• Viewed vs Swiped is usually 80–85% viewed
• Average view duration is around 23–24 seconds on 20–26 second Shorts (some loops go over 100% retention).

The strange thing is that almost every video seems to stop somewhere between 20k and 40k views. I rarely see a second push.

A YouTube expert told me the issue is probably the channel itself, and suggested starting a brand-new channel ( as everything and even the editing looks so profesisonal with the hook and end loopand all ! =

My questions are:

1. Has anyone experienced a similar "20k–40k Shorts jail"?
2. Did creating a new channel actually solve it? and put the same video after deleting them can resolve this ?
3. Or did you eventually break through on the same channel?
4. Looking at these numbers, is there anything that stands out as a likely bottleneck?

I'd really appreciate hearing from people who have actually experienced this rather than just guessing.

Thanks!

I've been running a Spanish Animation Shorts channel for about 2 months and I'm trying to understand if the channel is the problem or if I just need to keep going ( it a 2016 channel and i used last year to add some shorts but i diseabled them and i start from sratch this niche )

Here are my stats:

• Around 242k views in the last 28 days (+26%)
• +536 subscribers in the last 28 days ( im reaching now 1K subs )
• 120k unique viewers (+56%)
• About 900 watch hours
• I post 3–4 Shorts per week
• Audience: Mexico / Spanish-speaking Latin America

My Shorts usually get:

• 20k–30k views
• Occasionally 40k–50k (best is ~52k)
• Like ratio: 97–99%
• Viewed vs Swiped is usually 80–85% viewed
• Average view duration is around 23–24 seconds on 20–26 second Shorts (some loops go over 100% retention).

The strange thing is that almost every video seems to stop somewhere between 20k and 40k views. I rarely see a second push.

A YouTube expert told me the issue is probably the channel itself, and suggested starting a brand-new channel ( as everything and even the editing looks so profesisonal with the hook and end loopand all ! =

My questions are:

1. Has anyone experienced a similar "20k–40k Shorts jail"?
2. Did creating a new channel actually solve it? and put the same video after deleting them can resolve this ?
3. Or did you eventually break through on the same channel?
4. Looking at these numbers, is there anything that stands out as a likely bottleneck?

I'd really appreciate hearing from people who have actually experienced this rather than just guessing.

Thanks!