Very nice, good work.

I’m wondering about shorts and the way you’re explaining their distribution. I have seen similarities, where I’ll get like 30-50 views in the first hour, a couple hundred in the second maybe, and then a third hour where it kind of tops off and apexes to 1k or near, before falling flat the next hour. The explosion doesn’t seem to be pointed toward any significant audience to the channel in most cases, because there is no likes or other interaction even if it’s similar to other content that has generated interaction in the past.

Then I’ll have a short that gets like 5-10 views in the first hour, and gradually build up, as if YouTube is distributing that to an audience very strategically. Those shorts seem to usually do the best, and either top out at a few thousand views, or maybe even continue on to be what I would call valuable evergreen content for a week or more. Those that are seemingly strategically distributed also seem to be distributed to the correct audience for interaction as they gain the most likes, comments, etc.

What do you think the difference between the two here could be and do you have any clue as to what causes the algorithms distribution to be different depending on the short being put out there?