Channel-Level Distribution Issue: 0 Impressions Despite Full Feature Eligibility

wakeupneo said:

Hi everyone, I’ve had 5 different channels, and on all of them the first uploads were tested normally. They got impressions and even a few thousand views, sometimes more, without any problem.

But on some other channels, the opposite happens. You upload a video and it almost doesn’t get pushed at all. It’s not just low CTR or bad retention, because the video doesn’t even seem to enter the first impression test.

Changing the title, thumbnail, description, tags, category, etc. doesn’t really make a difference.

The strange thing is that this can happen on both new and older channels. Feature Eligibility is fully enabled in YouTube Studio too, including Standard features, Intermediate features and Advanced features.

I’ve also seen cases where normal account activity was done before uploading, like building watch history, watching videos, liking, commenting and subscribing, but the uploads still got almost no impressions.

So I’m wondering if this is some kind of channel-level trust or distribution issue. Not saying it’s definitely a shadowban, but it feels like some channels simply don’t get the initial test.

Has anyone else dealt with this?

Did the channel eventually start getting impressions, or did you have to do something specific to fix it?

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wakeupneo said:

Hi everyone, I’ve had 5 different channels, and on all of them the first uploads were tested normally. They got impressions and even a few thousand views, sometimes more, without any problem.

But on some other channels, the opposite happens. You upload a video and it almost doesn’t get pushed at all. It’s not just low CTR or bad retention, because the video doesn’t even seem to enter the first impression test.

Changing the title, thumbnail, description, tags, category, etc. doesn’t really make a difference.

The strange thing is that this can happen on both new and older channels. Feature Eligibility is fully enabled in YouTube Studio too, including Standard features, Intermediate features and Advanced features.

I’ve also seen cases where normal account activity was done before uploading, like building watch history, watching videos, liking, commenting and subscribing, but the uploads still got almost no impressions.

So I’m wondering if this is some kind of channel-level trust or distribution issue. Not saying it’s definitely a shadowban, but it feels like some channels simply don’t get the initial test.

Has anyone else dealt with this?

Did the channel eventually start getting impressions, or did you have to do something specific to fix it?

Click to expand...

wakeupneo said:

Hi everyone, I’ve had 5 different channels, and on all of them the first uploads were tested normally. They got impressions and even a few thousand views, sometimes more, without any problem.

But on some other channels, the opposite happens. You upload a video and it almost doesn’t get pushed at all. It’s not just low CTR or bad retention, because the video doesn’t even seem to enter the first impression test.

Changing the title, thumbnail, description, tags, category, etc. doesn’t really make a difference.

The strange thing is that this can happen on both new and older channels. Feature Eligibility is fully enabled in YouTube Studio too, including Standard features, Intermediate features and Advanced features.

I’ve also seen cases where normal account activity was done before uploading, like building watch history, watching videos, liking, commenting and subscribing, but the uploads still got almost no impressions.

So I’m wondering if this is some kind of channel-level trust or distribution issue. Not saying it’s definitely a shadowban, but it feels like some channels simply don’t get the initial test.

Has anyone else dealt with this?

Did the channel eventually start getting impressions, or did you have to do something specific to fix it?

Click to expand...