You honestly are the KZfaq Guru 💯

To the person who is reading this, don't give up on your channel. Keep going, Its going to be better. 💯

Even if the shorts don’t do that well, we don’t feel so bad because it took us less efforts to make it

Definitely going to start doing shorts!

I personally haven't experimented with shorts yet just because I don't want to focus on 2 different types of content. I think Shorts do well due to our shortening attention spans lol

I'm not even gonna lie youtube shorts make u get views fast... even when i wasn't trying with my shorts they were blowing up

I have 100% noticed that I get thousands of more views on shorts rather than long form videos. Since I started posting shorts, I’ve grown by almost 200 subscribers. I’m almost to 1000 now, and I feel like I’m having the first “I figured the algorithm out” moment

Shorts: KZfaq's choice Longs: Viewer's choice

I love that you've explained this distinction Nick, I see so many online business owners run to IG reels or tiktok or shorts because they're told or see content creators getting more views on those forms of content. BUT not all views are created equal. If you're creating content to be discovered as a content creator or even building brand awareness as a business then make the most of the short form content, but if you're creating content to attract warm leads to your business then long form content is the way to go.

So much sense and value in under 5 mins.🙌🏽 Thank you! I’m still trying to strike a balance with my thumbnails and titles. I think my titles aren’t compelling enough but I really find titles challenging…however I am committed to keep working on it. Eventually I will find my way. Thanks for keeping us working more intentionally. I appreciate your mentoring😎

Yt shorts is a good way to get new people to subscribe to you like I made a video and got 3.1k views on the video and I’ve learned that hashtags do help sometime for normal videos,like one of my videos got 21k views,which is amazing. But yeah thx for the tips and sometimes you just gotta be lucky with your videos

I have plenty of short videos uploaded in my channel, most of them got a higher views. But in my long videos few of them had higher views. Thanks for this info nick. Very helpful as always.

Such a simple answer that for some reason didn't click for me immediately......thank you for explaining this because I clearly was over thinking

I don’t have any shorts on my fitness channel, but thinking about experimenting with turning longer content into shorts 🧐

KZfaq Shorts are in a different section on KZfaq, it's a scroll function so yeah, endless views sometimes. However I am very happy that long term content is dominates KZfaq since it's a search engine. I only make a few KZfaq Shorts since it does bring in some views or subs but I would say 1/4 Shorts and the rest is all long term. Awesome video as always Nick! Also love the colour choice for the thumbnail in solidarity with Ukraine (If that was your intent lol )

I personally like short videos. Best of luck to everyone grinding, it is tough out here.

I'm glad this you made this video because my 2nd channel has a short that has 201 views in 10 hours and my long videos only have 20- 50 views

Thank you for making informative videos .. I’m learning a lot ..small youtuber here and a beginner as well

I’m uploading my first Shorts today. I’ve had a slow couple of months and I’m hoping to gain more traction this way🤞🏽

Thank you Nick! I been asking this question forever

This channel is helping me grow a lot as I'm NEW content creator ,thanks NICK!

You are the best KZfaqr, you literally inspired me to follow my dream of becoming a KZfaqr ♥️♥️♥️ I created this channel after you ♥️♥️♥️

Thank you I am going to start uploading shorts too💕

I hope you all the best nick, this tips will really impact the momentum of my videos.☺️

Hadn't thought of it this way. Awesome 😎

Haven’t watched one of your vids in a bit Nick. I see you’ve added b-roll of yourself. Well done my man. Film booth has rubbed off on all of us.but you’re one of the OGs of the YT marketing game.

Great video here Nick, this defo me right now. Thank you Nick 👍🙂📸🎬

I've never made a short going to have to start. Another GREAT! video bro thanks 👍👍

Dude awesome video man! Super helpful!

Thank you for answering all my questions 👍👍👍👍

I actually prefer longer videos. 😅 I will skip over shorts in a heart beat. I come to youtube to watch videos. If I want short snippets I will go to instagram or tik tok

Great info passed as always, thank you.

Another informative video from you buddy am getting it now why,your really helping me i have this question for sometimes.

I have had long form content views increase since I started posting Shorts on several channels. I think it is because viewers go check out the channel if they like the Short, that's what I do. This helped me realize I have to focus more on thumbnails and titles. Thanks Nick!

Thanks so much I have been wondering why my shorts do better . I'm still very new at KZfaq only had my channel 7 months and I have 762 subs. I'm very proud and thankful for that number . Thanks for your help in your videos they have helped me . I also have such a great positive, sweet , and now like family community .

You’re straight forward Explaining things in the best simple way Respect!

nice like always❤️💯

...hi to all who's getting small views in their long term content just like me 😬😁.. thanks for this great tips ..

I must be lucky because out of my Top 5 videos, 3 are over 30 minutes long (one of them is 2.5 hours). The few shorts I've done haven't done well at all, but they do bring in a good amount of subs for a 30 second video.

Shorts are not my taste, I really prefer videos that I make and that I watch to be longer form. Great video as always!

Great info..thanks 🙏🙏🙏

In my opinion, for new channels, shorts are great to get 1k subs (or more) quickly, but then they struggle to get 4k hrs of watch time in order to get monetized. The revenue for long form content is also much better than shorts.

I have noticed that my KZfaq shorts are getting a ton more views than my regular content. Looks like I have some work to do! Great tips and video, Nick!

Thank you for the video much helpful ❤

This is actually really important info. thanks. I wanna get back into making long form content again, so Im gonna need to work with thumbnails again and other stats. thanks for the info, Ill be sure to not let the lesser views compared to my shorts let my morale go down.

Nice video! Thanks mate

I dont often do shorts , I have however been trying to shorten up my long videos as attention spans are getting shorter and shorter. It's difficult when it's a How To channel to find the right balance. You dont want to come accross as gatekeeping but you also can't always put up a 40 minute video that people will skip around and watch 8 minutes of.

Very informative as always! Love this channel. You have helped me so much. Thank you!

I started doing shorts the beginning of this year, I was at 119 subscribers at that time. In just under two months I’ve jumped up to just under 750 subs. It took me EIGHT months to get those first 119 subs & 10K views. Now I’m over 250K views. GAME CHANGER FOR ME. It seems about 50% of my shorts flop, the rest get at least 1K views. Gaming playthrough channel here

Related (slightly) but I really love the thumb for this video. I sense some changes are coming in terms of thumbnail style, but it's pretty cool when the thumbnail style change is THIS obvious. On a much more related note, I'm noticing that shorts can sometimes tend to go better if the shorts themselves are already good. That way, yes, the shorts are forced onto people, but if the content of the shorts is worth watching, people WILL let the shorts play. No one is forced to watch a regular video which is why we rely so heavily on a thumbnail and title to draw someone in to want to click, which is much harder. Shorts gets the hard part done (the click) the next hard part is keeping them watching. Shorts are SUPER easy to skip if you get bored, so I still believe the watch time and retention from shorts is similar to long from (the audience is giving your content a chance) and if they like the video, the retention graph will show it. Shorts definitely wins in that regard. But I still have shorts that are performing abysmally so it's not ALL sunshine and rainbows, especially if KZfaq don't put your shorts into the shelf. In terms of "views"... what qualifies as a "view"? is it still the 1 second minimum or whatever the minimum watch time to qualify as a view? Or is shorts different in that regard? "If people don't continue to engage with your content, KZfaq will put other people's content in your place and stop putting your content out there" this is what's happening to my content now (the first 30 days in my impressions analytics shows this. Impressions analytics from 2022 show the content just isn't being pushed out like it was in 2018) And the question THERE is.... even when you try better practices... you try to improve your thumbnails (consistently 3%-5% nothing has changed there much), you try new tactics with titles (I still need a lot of work on that) and you try new editing to make videos shorter and more consumable... but it all results in KZfaq not trying to push your content out, because other people's content that performed better is now replacing your content.... Does this mean it's near impossible to get any new traction without just starting a new channel? I feel like I've shot myself in the feet with just having "boring" "Bad" content (10% retention longer form, 30-40% short form) like... what's the point in recording a 30 - 60 minute video (raw footage), putting the effort into editing it down so it's more "consumable" only for to it still only get 10% retention.... (I remember some bigger channels in the past (not Nimminati) would say exactly that... "why bother making a video if 90% aren't watching?) It's incredibly disheartening. 2018 was more reliant on watch time... 10 minutes of a 60 minute video still meant 10 minutes of watch time per video, meaning content was still getting recommended, vs 2021 when 10 minutes of a 60 minute video = 10% retention.... retention being more important than watch time = nope... no more recommended by KZfaq either get good or give up, and after 7 years of trying to make the videos more watchable with similar results in my retention, I feel like being on the verge of giving up (luckily there's new movies inspiring me to want to draw even if my views and retention are tanking)

I find that whenever I get more views on long form content I get more gratification and satisfaction than if I just made a youtube short, idk why i don't have a problem with shorts or people who do shorts I guess I just like it when my longer content gets views

This is such a good video! Thank you so much for this video because I was actually planning on doing youtube shorts along with long videos. 😅 Thank you so much! 😊👍

as always super helpful. appreciate you brother

I now know the reason as to why my shorts are performing well than long term content. Thanks❤❤

Growing youtube community is very hard we are not going to give up hanging on

I just LOVE that some of your "long-form" content is ~5 min these days, Nick 😉 Also, #shorts must be a _really_ big deal - I see more and more creator educators posting about them!!

It makes more sense why my shorts gotten views than my normal videos which takes a bit of time to make it clickable and enjoyable. Lots of info about the differents on how shorts and normal videos work here on YT. Haven't really watched any shorts due to me usin' a PC but this I guess sums it up so good 1:03 😂

Great video Nick. I love this video for these reasons 1) it was short enough 2) it really explained the motivation or non-motivation to watch shorts vs long form. I need to start exploring if it's worth even doing short form content. I know people splice their long form contentn to shorts but I'm still on the fence about it. Plus, my channel is still new so I (with my limited time) need to focus on what I need/want to do now. Thanks for the push into exploring shorts.

I haven’t experienced short content views yet I’m focused on only getting a following and a subscriber community that keeps coming back, let’s carry on with the grind :)) yehhh

Great Vid, I feel like my youtube shorts seems to be working, but having longer videos doesnt really get much views. But overall, we will get there! Have hopes everyone!

I just wanted to say Thank you! I don't usually comment on videos but I have noticed that your tips have really helped me out With my channel and me gaining more skills on yt and I wanted to say thanks!

Your videos are always great to watch and learn from. For me, Shorts are hit and miss. For those that miss they perform about the same as my longer videos. For those that are a hit, they have been great at bringing in new subscribers.

G'day Nick. Much appreciated as always mate. I am yet to properly test out the Shorts part of KZfaq. Have done a few random videos and some did not go to the shelf as I did something like messed up the formatting, but keen to use it to draw people to my channel eventually... and hopefully. Appreciate your work. Daz.

thanks nick, it's really useful for me, my shorts videos have more watcher than long one, means i need to improve my long video, thanks

I've been making YT shorts for a month, at least 3 videos a day! It helped me get a lot of views and quite a few subscribers! Now I've been doing a lot longer forms of content! More Let's Plays/ Walkthroughs, and like you said they are getting a handful of views! But, it could be a case of the video will eventually get picked up! The game I was playing was an Indie game, that had recently came out! Made the Title and thumbnail to go along with it! The thing is about YT, is learning to be patient, and to also stop comparing myself to others, as it can be a bit demotivating at times!

Nick I get better view on my long videos. Most shorts now get 200 or less views. When I first started shorts I was getting 500 to 1000 views per short. YT is hard to figure out. Thanks buddy

Now it all Makes Sense Nick 🙏💙

Great & informative video Nick!Thanks for sharing with us.

Thanks for being here at youtube!! very informative content Mr Nick Nimm

I’ve done both and shorts pick up quicker! But longer videos are so hard especially in the stock space.

I just started on this platform so I really appreciate this clear explanation

Nick I've applied so many of your suggestions, idk what I'm doing wrong man. Thanks for keeping it up. I just wish I could figure it out.

Thank you Sir Nick Nimmin for the info

I am dreaming of a youtube world where short form content is a sustainable way of youtube income. Without the longs, will it exist?, my guess it is coming in some form.

Hi bro, is that possible if you make a video on how to get viewers from overseas? Im trying to expand my channel internationally, but it seems it doesn’t *yet* get the result I expected. My channel has over 200k subs with an average views of 50-100k+ per video :) Thanks.

Somehow I created a short that while it hasn't gotten a million views it just broke 204k after being posted mid November. 57% Browse, 24% search and 17% from the short shelf. It is also responsible for over half of my subscribers right now. Since I injured myself a few weeks back I haven't been able to record or post anything and now it is dying. Hopefully when I am healed up and able to start creating again it will pick up.

Thank you nick Because of you I have reached 100 Subscribers!

Great advice!

I love getting views but it's kinda depressing when shorts hit 4K but normal videos hit 30 views...hell, that's on a good day

Here's what I have been doing for when my shorts appear in suggested/home/etc. I have a long format video that I post and then I make a short from that. I use the same thumbnail for both but put "Trailer" across the one for the short. Then my title for the long format, for example, reads "Mini Shotgun Shells Recipe", then the title for my short version reads "Full video in description | Mini Shotgun Shells Recipe". Then I put the link to the long format in the description of the short. I do this because I feel if my short is shown somewhere outside of the shelf, the viewer is probably looking for a full video on the recipe, not a sub 60 second clip. I feel like it would keep those people from just leaving and looking elsewhere for the content. Do you think that's a good strategy? It doesn't seem to affect views on the shelf. About 80% of my shorts get picked up and I get a decent amount of views usually.

My experience is actually the opposite. I get views on long form, but not shorts. Been that way since they rolled out the shorts in the US.

Yes i agree. KZfaq shorts is easier. I got like 2K or 1K Every Shorts I Made. And Im Proud of it.

Shorts are definitely a subjective argument, I've had some of my shorts spike at over 34k views, the most successful one was a grainy video I shot on my phone maybe 10 years ago of kneading bread before I knew anything about videography and people loved it! My long form bread content had views in the hundreds, the thing I took from both experiences is that for my niche it needs to be a sweet spot of moving slow enough to digest the tutorial I'm giving but fast enough to not lose the viewers engagement. For example, I'd time lapse 10 minutes of stirring into a few seconds but lose the audience,now the second I begin to stir something I'll have a graphic that says "X amount of minutes later" and then a blur so the whole process takes a couple of seconds. All things that I've learnt in my time from watching the KZfaq gurus, although they all say in terms of winning the click for a content related question, there's always one guru who wins the click 😉

What? Mines the opposite. My shorts never took off, so I dropped making them and focussed on 8-15m vids

FINALLY THIS GUY MADE A VIDEO ON KZfaq SHORTS

My shorts have been pumping way more than my long vids. But I want the long ones to do well as they help me get monetised.

That was helpful, thank you :)

That would have been the perfect Video, to reference to the upcoming Thumbnails Video, in the end screen.

Hi. I started to watching your videos not because of monetization but because i am new at trying this and i really do not know anything about the process. I am learning how to present myself and my videos which is more valuable to me at the moment so thank you. My comment here also proves don't give up on your videos either look a year later and still getting a view

NICK!! I just found your channel and I am obsessed with it. Your content is exactly what I need. Thank you sooooo much!!!!!!!! YOU ROCK!!! (I do hope you read this 😃)

Thanks for the information and thanks for the video😀

What’s funny is that it happens in reverse for me. I actually got clicks on my longer videos and 0 on my short. I did experience a fluke where my first short that was just a quick short notice really saying nothing much other than I’m experimenting and I got 700 views before it was pulled and went dead. Shorts I posted after all never gained a view again. It was really weird.

Hi Nick, I understand the reason for zooming in and out during the video, it's a cool way to "hide" cuts so it will look more fluid, but I would advice you not to zoom it too much and too often, specially in videos this short. It both distracts from what you're saying and also makes it harder to focus on your face because the change is too big and our eyes kinda lose track of your eyes for a second. Nice video BTW, very clear and useful information

Ok I don't give up my KZfaq channel..and do short and Long videos... because its my first time to have a KZfaq channel.. thanks for sharing your video sir

Thank God for you Nick I been waiting for this video forever. Please please I am begging you please make more vids like this. I need all the motivation I can get to break down these walls. I appriciate you heavenly above and beyond. 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕 Stay blessed my man!

Good stuff. I am still torn however on whether I should integrate the short content into my regular channel, or create a seperate channel for them that then points people to my regular stuff. In the fighting game niche, short "highlight" style clips do really well, usually bringing in well into the thousands of views, but I'm just not sure if I should "disrupt" my regular stuff, so to speak.

This was extremely helpful and informative! Thank you so much for talking about this! 😄👌🏾

Thank you for this video! This helps a lot ❤

Short: Less earning Long: Can put more ads and earn more I know the experience of this because i have 2.

I have the exact oposite problem, most of my bottom 10 videos in terms of views are my shorts. There's been two or three that get a small boost, but even those aren't even in my top 50%. I think maybe it's just my style that really isn't suited for short form content.