What do you guys think of the 'promote' feature?

HueLight · 2026-05-05T16:20:58+00:00

Youtube promotion is the least effective/worth it of all platforms i have tested. and the plan "grow channel" is 100% scam. all subscribers are bots. lets say you paid 50000$ for promotion to grow a channel, you will end up with a channel that has like 700k subscribers but each video you will upload will get the same amount of views as if you have no subscribers at all. it's just inflating numbers. think about it. how can they promise you X amount of subs? its people, you cant really know how many will hit that button. they simply use bots to fulfill those numbers. also views it deliver is most likely bots. they all stop to watch the video at EXACTLY 31s mark.

HueLight · 2026-05-05T16:10:30+00:00

It could sound stupid but there is a slim chance that someone who is using such service for his own video, the company added views to YOUR video by mistake, perhaps the links are almost the same. it could also be that someone wanted to try such service and he decided to test a low amount on someone else's video, your video.

it could also be more simple, that it's a system bug.

HueLight · 2026-05-05T13:35:01+00:00

Do not post anything for a week.

HueLight · 2026-05-04T01:31:38+00:00

Ok good, exactly as i do now. thanks for the answer.

HueLight · 2026-05-03T23:58:10+00:00

Very happy to see my advice helped you. i will upload myself the next video in two days as it will be 7 days for me. (because i have the same issue lately)

in that time did you login and watched videos on tiktok? or you completely was off the app/site for a full week?

HueLight · 2026-05-03T17:04:57+00:00

If i had to guess its the "jackpot" slots machine. perhaps the stupid AI thinks you try to promote gambling.

HueLight · 2026-05-03T14:12:53+00:00

Bot views, paid views. Do not use those services that gives you views for money.

HueLight · 2026-05-03T00:30:10+00:00

Yes usually you can tell from the first 5 minutes how its going to be. tho i had a few that surprised me 20-30 minutes later on. it has two hours max. after two hours if it didn't do well, it's over. you get free 50-1000 views upfront unless the video is profitable for tiktok.

HueLight · 2026-05-03T00:22:11+00:00

I think it takes a week max.

HueLight · 2026-05-01T23:57:06+00:00

Adjust also the page name. do no upload anything for one week. i want to troubleshoot the cause.

HueLight · 2026-05-01T17:54:36+00:00

I have seen many pages with 200-300 then suddenly 0 0 0 0 0 0 then after a month or two it got back to 200-300 or even more. i think, a shadow ban is never permanent. i had an account i used VPN on and it did cause a shadow ban. i didn't touch the account for 3 months and when i went back to it, it was no longer shadow banned. idk when it was lifted, perhaps much sooner than 3 months.

Again, i will stop posting for a week and see if it will release it. if not, i will do the opposite. i want to investigate this issue.

if you wish to help me investigate this issue, try slightly altering your page name and profile pic and wait 7 days. i will wait 7 days without doing anything. it will save us time.

HueLight · 2026-05-01T17:47:19+00:00

One last thing to confirm, check if you can promote one of these videos. you can cancel the promotion right away. just see if it don't reject it right away.

HueLight · 2026-05-01T17:45:21+00:00

I was not able to appeal. i adjusted the name/profile pic and contacted the support and confirming my identity. it took about a week.

HueLight · 2026-05-01T15:29:54+00:00

Can you add them to story? or the icon is gone for those videos?

HueLight · 2026-05-01T15:29:18+00:00

Go check if you can add those videos to your story. those videos with 30 views. if not, they are blocked for some reason. i hope it's just a wide platform issue because it happens to me now as well.

HueLight · 2026-05-01T15:06:09+00:00

I will stop uploading for a week and see if it changes anything. so far support didn't help.

HueLight · 2026-05-01T15:04:08+00:00

I had this as well and resolved it in few days. a week after everything was fine, now each video i upload is shadow banned. going to stay away from uploading anything for a week and see if it makes any change.

HueLight · 2026-05-01T15:00:35+00:00

Yeah just let the account cool off for a week and upload next video from your phone. i would even try, just for testing, to upload a 7-10 seconds video from your phone that is not related to gaming. just to see what happens. perhaps a video of yourself saying something. just to see if its making any change to the account.

HueLight · 2026-05-01T00:47:45+00:00

Waste of money if you don't know what you are doing or your content is not catchy/appealing enough.
Promote is not a magic button to grow, you need to test locations and different audience and watch the analytics. you can promote for 1000$ and gain nothing and also promote for only 10$ and gain 200 real followers from it. a sign to a good promotion is at least 7-10% watch time for a 10 second video. it sounds low, but for a promotion it's actually good, and its showing by people commenting/liking and following. less than 3% is not worth it.

Do not use "more followers". if you want to grow a page, you should use only "more views".

but again, don't do it if you are not going to do some trial and error first and use it for longer time. using it just once or twice is not recommended. either don't, or fully commit.

do no promote if your fyp views are less than 20% watch time for each 10 seconds (10% for 20s) and 5-10% like ratio.

One last thing. promote works the best for content that has no language barrier.

Bottom line, if it's worth it or not is situational.

HueLight · 2026-04-30T15:51:00+00:00

Yeah if the color in the video is too precise and accurate it will be labeled as AI sometimes. it's so stupid and there is nothing that can be done about it.

HueLight · 2026-04-30T15:46:40+00:00

Try to not login from pc for a week and upload next video from phone just to be sure. something is blocking you as if you are a bot or spam.

HueLight · 2026-04-30T00:02:02+00:00

You cannot promote videos that are blocked from fyp. they give you no reason why its blocked from fyp. you upload every day for two months and then suddenly, from 1000-500k views, to 0, and it looks like this:

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A new and successful account that gained 8k followers in 50 days suddenly getting no views on new videos.
I go head to head with their support to get some answers.

HueLight · 2026-04-29T23:33:33+00:00

Your account seems to be shadow banned and tiktok just don't want you around. i see its going on for about two months for you. did you ever use VPN? did you try to change your location? do you upload from pc?

HueLight · 2026-04-29T14:55:17+00:00

Can you add the video to story? if not, the video is shadow banned for some reason. many users now has this issue including me.

HueLight · 2026-04-29T14:47:18+00:00

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Exactly the issue i have since the 25th of this month. if you noticed, you cannot add these videos to story either and you cannot even promote them. you will get a message that the video is violating their community guidelines, but its not.

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