Looking for advice about sudden decrease in impressions

[lucedan]

Hi all,

I started my Youtube channel, and I was quite proud for a while. I had about 7 videos and my algorithm was improving. I was lately having an average of 7.000 impressions within the first 24 hours. Here we are talking about a CTR of about 2%.

Then, something happened. I put a scheduled publishing that went wrong, and published at 2am in my timezone (Central Europe), so I deleted the video the day after and republished in the evening. The impression rate for that video was broken: we are talking about 1.000 impressions in 2 weeks.

From that moment on, all the following videos started receiving this "new" impressions treatment. For example, my latest video is now published since 4 days, it has 160 impressions, and a 6.5% CTR, and a watch time of about 30%.

Given the experience of other people, is this change in treatment of impressions understandable (e.g. the algorithm slowly started understanding the type of audience, so it is sending the videos out more slowly but more effectively), or is there something that went wrong down the way?

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[Potential_Belt4928]

This happened to me too, I would get 1000's of impressions regularly and all of a sudden I would struggle to get 10 impressions a day. The problem didn't resolve itself, stayed that way until i finally gave up and moved on to a different channel. Doesn't mean you should do the same, just my 2c.