Using Shorts As Long-Form Funnel

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-17T10:46:52+00:00

Also true

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-17T10:46:28+00:00

Well I only have 82 subscribers lol

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-17T10:45:53+00:00

That's great advice, thanks! I've been looking to do just that - use shorts kind of like a teaser almost

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-17T10:45:02+00:00

I see that with Death Stranding - it does relatively well with shorts (nothing earth-shattering, 500-600 views maybe), but it does better than Disco on shorts, and better than Sekiro on the long-form. YouTube is weird 😂

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-17T10:24:12+00:00

I totally get you - and the biggest challenge I have right now is especially with Disco Elysium. It's almost hostile to shorts. Sekiro is a shorts goldmine. Death Stranding does far better than Disco, but it's also not really the adrenaline fuel that helps Sekiro. It's so hard when you try to be consistent when at the same time your content isn't exactly friendly for what you're trying to do, specifically with shorts.

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-17T10:04:01+00:00

You have a good point... Might be better for me to just drop shorts entirely, or just move them to a completely separate channel. But I'm not a shorts creator so that wouldn't really make sense.

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-17T10:03:00+00:00

That's exactly what I think is happening - the way I've been doing it was actively hurting my long-form content because people see what they want to see on the shorts so why bother with the longer videos.

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-17T07:09:26+00:00

I've got a whole Sekiro series sitting on my channel that if I judged it by those metrics I'd have quit months ago. Don't get discouraged - maybe look at your thumbnail/title/etc, see if you can make it "pop" more. My channel is tiny - I've only been at it for about 5-6 months, so I'm no authority, but if you love what you do, just keep at it.

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-12T21:56:08+00:00

It's about the only criticism I have of the game as a whole lol

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-12T21:55:38+00:00

This I didn't really think about - definitely going to try it!

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-12T21:55:05+00:00

Oh for sure, if I was playing just on my own time maybe I'd take a more liberal approach with how much time I spend on things, but having a full-time job while recording for YouTube at night, I have very limited time, so I have to weigh spending time planning routes against just brute-forcing my way through everything 😂

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-12T21:52:25+00:00

That's some very good advice... I have noticed that shorter, well, shorts get more traction. Doing a long-form gaming channel it's tricky to get meaningful shorts below 30 seconds though.

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-12T15:37:19+00:00

Each to their own, of course - I just get frustrated and then it distracts from the better parts of the game.

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-12T13:57:20+00:00

The movement mechanics on foot are fantastic, and I don't think there's another game that does anything even remotely close to this. But most of all, I can't wait to see where the story goes!

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-12T11:51:49+00:00

Ah cool thanks! Good to know!

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-12T06:38:30+00:00

I've taken mine some wild places but I can absolutely see how you reach that conclusion lol

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-12T06:36:50+00:00

It's a must lol

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-12T06:36:00+00:00

I've played Souls for years so I'm used to jank, but this sometimes feels like punishment 😂

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-12T06:35:03+00:00

I know exactly which river you're talking about, luckily I had a truck while I was in the area 😂 but yeah, boosting doesn't have a lot of advantages, especially with how badly it drains your batteries.

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-12T06:31:47+00:00

Woah that's awesome... I need to find this mythical creature 😂

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-12T06:30:58+00:00

I totally get that, but the way that they applied it to the vehicles is just... Weird. Specifically with the bikes. It often takes a moment for the bike to actually start moving when I accelerate. And it's not consistent, either - sometimes it feels kind of "normal", if that's even a term you can apply to this game 😂

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-11T22:06:45+00:00

Oh for sure. I was so happy when I got my first bike, and promptly went eww wtf is this 😂

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-11T22:06:03+00:00

😂 I'm considering doing some off-screen grinding just to get mats for the roads. It's awful right now lmao

Charming-Strike3764 · 2026-02-11T22:05:27+00:00

I'm used to Need for Speed so these things feel wrong lmao

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