Should You Still Be Using YouTube Shorts in 2024?

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A good example of effectively using shorts to drive traffic to long form content is Tyler Oliveira, who essentially just uses them as teaser trailers for his documentaries.

20 grand don’t sound bad at all.

I went all in on Youtube shorts and I'm happy with my success. I'm not here for the ego but I get recognized all the time when I'm riding my motorcycle on the street. My goal right now is to get 100k subs (by end of March 2024) the silver play button, and start my second Youtube channel. I already have affiliated marketing and planning on selling my merchandise in 2024. 💰🎉 You do you but I would recommend for any new creator to do Youtube shorts in 2024.

I was giving up on shorts but then last week I posted my most viewed short and I posted over 100 shorts. PS. If your long form and short are the exact same style and niche you would notice a boost in long form views. That short generated a lot of views for all my videos long and short. So what they are saying could be true but you have to test it and try it out for yourself. Other people in my niche post both long-form and short and they have great success. Your shorts and videos need to be very similar same style.

7:08 I believe I just experienced this on this channel. My first 2 videos were pushed aggressively after 2 days, getting around 20k impressions, in two waves (so two different pushes for each). I assumed it was just YouTube seeing the videos were decent, and testing larger audiences to find OUR audience (like I've always been told), but they've both plateaued (exactly like it's said in this video), and my 3rd video (released 1 week later) never got the same push, despite similar CTR, retention and watch time. I assumed it's because it just wasn't as catchy (still do), until I saw this theory and it got me thinking.

This is a perfect video explaining why I don't do Shorts or TikTok. There are plenty of things I could do that work on both, but it's basically pointless. For example, I do cosplay related stuff. I could do TONS of things with JUST myself. I've had a few ideas already, such as the ones everyone does like transition videos, where you do a large movement to cover a cut, and it's transitioning from normal clothes, to a costume of some kind. There are hundreds of different transition types for ONE costume alone, let alone all the others I have. That's tons of videos. Same with my showcases where I show off cosplayers at conventions I attend (many of those videos also go into my vlog OF the convention), where I could use those clips in shorts. But again, it's basically pointless, and a waste of time. Not to mention randomly you will have shorts breaking up the actual regular videos, which looks weird. Not to mention TikTok videos would NOT get people over here to my youtube page.

Great video. Very insightful.

I recently ran a poll in my YouTube Community… 93% preferred regular YouTube videos to YouTube Shorts. The community response to long videos is better too. This video says it right — who remembers any YouTube Shorts creators?! So, since the objective is to build up the community, YouTube Shorts were paused on the channel. YouTube shorts actually got less views than long videos. I ran a test with similar content. The Short would spike, but then flatline, while the long form video would steadily attract viewers. Vertical videos are just an odd ratio too. It doesn't look nice on a standard 16:9 TV.

Nice work man your videos are amazing man

this is gold. thank you guys!

Thanks for the tips man! Keep spreading knowledge on to the people! We ALL should do the same!! 🙏💙👏👏👏

Good questions, good answers. Thanks

Been trying to figure out what to do with Long form and shorts. Hearing this gave me a different perspective of shorts. I'm going to concentrate back into doing long form and have shorts as a secondary thing.

Very interesting takes, thanks.

such a very interesting conversation and a lot of great questions. Since the audience is different or shorts could hurt long form videos are most people just creating another channel? one for shorts and another for long form? We have been pushing out more shorts the last few months and have a bit of ups n downs. some do great and others, we also make a long form video once a week that dont really do very well. Just curious how others are handling this or what strategies others are doing. Thanks for this video!

Completely agree. Usually I upload 2 times a week long videos and 1 short per week but I do focus more on the long videos. 😊

I think I'm gonna give up on shorts as the better my shorts do the worse my long form does! got 300 watch hours left till full monetisation so gonna focus on Long form till I hit it

I dont have a huge subscriber count but i noticed that people who subscribed to me from shorts actually enjoyed when I started making long form videos! But ultimately, long form videos are what I always wanted to make. Shorts helped bring traffic. Maybe it's just my niche, but it has helped my long form videos get atleast 1k+ views. Before using shorts, i was only getting less than 50 views on long form videos.

I believe that you should because Shorts are getting more and more popular every single day. People don't have attention span for anything longer, so I am recently trying to create expressive content (and after I post it, I use a lot of Famester to help me go viral immediately).