u/Themayorofawesome

Have any of the small channels seen a shift recently in their views/engagement/impressions?

My channel has stayed consistent over the last 16 months and really started taking off about three months ago with steady views of 400-500 on each long form before two videos over 1k each, one over 4k, and one over 16k.

Now in the last month everything is dropping hard and fast. My last three videos have 85, 176, and currently 32 views. My shorts have also dropped significantly from 1200-1400 views in the first 24 hours to between 100-200.

My CTR’s are between 3-4% where over the last three months were between 6-10%. I’ve changed nothing since November and things were going forward in the right direction until about a month ago.

Is this just my niche stalling or has YouTube done something to the algorithm? My niche is amateur radio and electronics, fairly small. I also use very little AI, mostly for thumbnail builds using my original content. All of the actual content is original and my own.

I can’t even begin to express the joy I have in watching Paul Skenes work. Is this guy even human?

Ok so we all know that the platform itself tends to take longer to catch up to Studio. What the real question is though is how long does Studio actually take to catch up to the real time data?

I ask this because I’ve noticed a trend as of late now where my videos will stall and then all of sudden gain traction and then stall again and repeat. I know that it can take up to 72 hours to see full results but in reality how long does it really take to hit, and then does that affect the algorithm in any way?

I’m curious to see what everyone’s take is on it