Considering switching to long form and farm a bunch of channels. Overall, more money in long form imo.
Shorts are so up and down and once your niche gets dominated, it only gets harder.
Shorts RPMs are also cooked, especially after Q4 ends, making it hard to even profit.
Realtime doesn’t matter
Sub count doesn’t matter
All that matters is learning
Test new ideas
Test new upload settings
Test everything
Once you find what works, that’s where results come
You’re ngmi if you’re choosing niches like sports compilations, ranking moments etc.
Any niche that your fav influencer has been saying on their yt channel for years is complete bs.
You literally have to be the top 0.0001% in that niche to even see some sort of result.
YT Shorts is easy money if you just stay consistent:
If you have 60 shorts on average gaining 1k/views an hour each (which is pretty bad)
That’s 60k views/hour = ~1.4 mil views/day
Sticking with conservative rpms (10 cents)
That’s $140/day
= $4.2k/month
Stay consistent.
All you have to do is just raise your view floor.
For example, many people are stuck in 30k view jail.
For me, 100k views is the norm.
For big channels, they’ll get 1m views on a “bad video”
1m views = $100 with mid rpm
ABSOLUTE WORST CASE = 3k/month
Imo the most important part of yt automation is learning how to deal with bad days.
When all your videos flatline,
When you get a 10/10,
How do you react?
YouTube will reward you in direct congruence in how much money you make them.
Literally all you have to do is make them more money.
AVD, Swipe Rate, Comments, Engagement…etc
Keep viewers on the platform = more money for YouTube.
Optimize for making YouTube money.
Other things I’ve picked up on:
• Always add some sort of controversy or comment bait
• Stay consistent no matter what (bad days happen)
• Warm up account properly
I think I found the recipe for viral shorts:
• Must be a easy viral/proven niche (ex: gaming)
• Replicate + Improve on proven concepts
• Good SEO (People sleep on this imo)
• Analyze every short (retention graphs, swipe rate, audience)
• Test and double down on what works