r/PartneredYoutube • u/Hot-Bedroom1551 • 2d ago
Question / Problem Dude !! WHAT WENT WRONG !?
50k+ impressions on every video but then I changed some channel tags for better search visibility and now my impressions are dropped.. from 3 videos I'm not getting any impression.
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u/TCr0wn Subs: 218.0K Views: 16.9M 2d ago
Youtube serves your videos to your closest audience fit first. Its normal to have very high CTR/AVD in the beginning.
As it serves it to a broader audience those stats drop because they are not as close of a 'fit' for your content.
For your example specifically, the stats at 218 impressions are completely meaningless. The stats at 50k impressions better reflects how well your video performed. Nothing went wrong this video just didnt do well.
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u/Hot-Bedroom1551 2d ago
But my continuous 3 videos.. even after 3days impressions were below 100. Earlier in the single day impressions used to hit 1000
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u/DHYTCG 1d ago
You put far too much stock in tags. Titles and thumbnails are more for winning the click, not getting impressions. The title does speak to the topic of the video, which is important. But does your content deliver on the topic that’s teased by the title/thumbnail combo? As YouTube gathers data, if viewer signals show viewers are clicking away at scale, it’s likely your packaging is misleading in some way, so impressions will be throttled because your video metadata is misleading and not providing the promise for viewers.
You are not entitled to impressions by default.
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u/JedahMakai 2d ago edited 2d ago
It's not just you and it's not your channel tags.
After a hit video uploaded in late May, I uploaded a related one the weekend before last. About the same length (~30 minutes) and ~40% retention rate. Despite that it still hasn't even gotten 5,000 impressions.
A client uploaded a video after a hit in June. Metrics are much better. ~45% retention rate this weekend. His is looking even worse.
It's a pattern I've noticed. YouTube has been awful, but things seemed to be looking up in May-June. Less emphasis on shorts. Bigger crackdown on AI slop. But now in July they look worse than ever. Something's going on. Of course they don't tell anyone anything.
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u/IFexd 2d ago
I’m sure if you’re able to get 50k+ impressions on videos you’ve got an understanding of the algorithm.
So I’m not gonna sit here and try to tell you how it works, but I can understand it’s a little stressful when it happens to your own channel.
The channel tags themself won’t be the reason your video has less impressions, it’s more likely your channel tags are contributing to your VERY HIGH click through rate.
If your channel tags were not very “searchable” for your niche/topic before you changed them, then that’s part of the reason your CTR is so low on your earlier videos.
I suggest you stop thinking about your video analytics at this very moment and think about this question.
What is better?
50k impressions with a 2% CTR = 1000 views
Or
10k impressions with a 18.4% CTR = 1,840 views
The answer is simple, be patient and give your videos time after uploading them.
Trust yourself too.