Channel getting less and less views

I have a problem with my channel. I have a bit over 9k subs(95% are real ones, but I experimented with traffic exchange when I started my channel and got maybe 200 subs that way) and I had lots of videos on my channel. Many of them had like 20k, 30k, 40k, 50k, some even 100k views. I had to delete many of them due to personal reasons, but I now regret doing so. I am still uploading videos, just to be clear.

The thing is, even tho I now make 4k videos which are also better quality than before, I cannot hit even 1k views. I am struggling to get even 500 views lately. A few years ago, I would get several thousand views even with worse quality videos.

It also happens that some of my videos do not get suggested at all. Some of my videos were even not indexed for the first 6-7 days after upload. I had a video about one hot topic and I was first in my country to upload it and the video could not be found in search whole first week. But when others made the same kind of video 15 or 30 days later, their videos were fine. And mine is still not getting suggested on their videos, even tho theirs are.

My viewers keep telling me that they do not get notifications when I upload videos and do not see them in their home section.

I contacted yt support several times, but they did not help me at all. They are saying that there is nothing wrong with my channel and that I am not shadowbanned and that thing like that does not even exist(fckin bullshit). They even "did not know" what I mean by "indexed"...

I do not know what to do...

forget about the support, they will not be able to help you in any way...

you experience something that repeat for many members here, your channel got crippled, you know that, we know that, YouTube will never shed the light on this important feature...

did you ever used automated cheap views on your channel? or added automated services such as likes, comments (beside the initial 200 subs you mentioned)? any BH/SPAM activities?

i recommend to start over fresh, reusing your own content (after spinning it), but it must be from an unlinked account! (it is very important not to link the sessions)

Your channel is most likely shadowbanned or your content is just uninteresting and you have a low watchtime from your subs. The less subs watch it, the lesser it shows up on everyones feed.

Thanks for your answers. I experimented with some HR views before, but compared to my actual views it was next to nothing, less then 1%.
It is my personal channel, so I never did anything sketchy.

What do you mean by separate sessions? Do I need to use different pc, not just different email to make a channel?

pbztex said:

Thanks for your answers. I experimented with some HR views before, but compared to my actual views it was next to nothing, less then 1%.
It is my personal channel, so I never did anything sketchy.

What do you mean by separate sessions? Do I need to use different pc, not just different email to make a channel?

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Can you provide your channel name? I can take a look and give a quick diagnosis.

Cyberars said:

forget about the support, they will not be able to help you in any way...

you experience something that repeat for many members here, your channel got crippled, you know that, we know that, YouTube will never shed the light on this important feature...

did you ever used automated cheap views on your channel? or added automated services such as likes, comments (beside the initial 200 subs you mentioned)? any BH/SPAM activities?

i recommend to start over fresh, reusing your own content (after spinning it), but it must be from an unlinked account! (it is very important not to link the sessions)

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Will this happen from buying subs and watchtime views to get a new channel monetized? Or does this happen over use of crappy botted views?

pbztex said:

Thanks for your answers. I experimented with some HR views before, but compared to my actual views it was next to nothing, less then 1%.
It is my personal channel, so I never did anything sketchy.

What do you mean by separate sessions? Do I need to use different pc, not just different email to make a channel?

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you can use sessionBox chrome extension, but better to use a virtual machine with RDP (remote desktop), yes it's just like a different PC, the reason is to avoid linking between the OLD channel and the new one.
the official reason can be that your NEW channel updated with 4K video content only. you can add intro or outro to justify that, but must spin (use spin blaster tool) the videos so youtube will treat them as unique fresh content!

Russ Thomas said:

Will this happen from buying subs and watchtime views to get a new channel monetized? Or does this happen over use of crappy botted views?

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bro, YouTube doesn't do discounts, they will detect ANY artificial activities, watch time from automated views may stay for a while, maybe it will drop later maybe not, but that is not relevant, you can have a monetized channel with videos that you botted, but after that, you will get 0 zero traffic, like you are not in the index.

similar to the trick they do with likes/comments, if you use automation to like/comment videos, at some point you will see the likes/comments but the rest of the world will not see it...

Cyberars said:

you can use sessionBox chrome extension, but better to use a virtual machine with RDP (remote desktop), yes it's just like a different PC, the reason is to avoid linking between the OLD channel and the new one.
the official reason can be that your NEW channel updated with 4K video content only. you can add intro or outro to justify that, but must spin (use spin blaster tool) the videos so youtube will treat them as unique fresh content!


bro, YouTube doesn't do discounts, they will detect ANY artificial activities, watch time from automated views may stay for a while, maybe it will drop later maybe not, but that is not relevant, you can have a monetized channel with videos that you botted, but after that, you will get 0 zero traffic, like you are not in the index.

similar to the trick they do with likes/comments, if you use automation to like/comment videos, at some point you will see the likes/comments but the rest of the world will not see it...

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Oh snap, well let's hope my channel dosent get ghosted. I only used these views just to get my monetized. But then again I could do this to competitors and get their channel ghosted so idk how that works. But after this I'm only doing organic views

Will agree - seems shadowbanned

TrendWatchersAlerts said:

Can you provide your channel name? I can take a look and give a quick diagnosis.

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It is the same as my username here. I still cannot post links here. Keep in mind that I had lots of videos vith like 10, 20, 30, 40, 50k views which I deleted. Some were vlogs and talks on various topics which I had to delete due to personal reasons. Some were my old tech videos. I regret deleting them, since I lost about 2M views that way.

That's a weird one. If you carry on uploading it could fix itself but that's a risk considering the effort you put into the videos. I've seen this happen to a few channels, even ones that don't appear to be exploiting views of any sort.

I dont know if its youtube ghosting your channel/videos because of views, if thats the case that means any competitor can do this to you. It might just be the algorithm isnt favoring your content anymore

Russ Thomas said:

I dont know if its youtube ghosting your channel/videos because of views, if thats the case that means any competitor can do this to you. It might just be the algorithm isnt favoring your content anymore

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well that's why this "punishment" is not public or clear to any of us, they use AI to determine your ranking score (ranking power) and yes, there is always a risk that competitor will invest time and efforts to mess your channel, same for website that use google adsense ads, an evil competitor can theoretically send traffic that will violate adsense TOS.

Russ Thomas said:

I dont know if its youtube ghosting your channel/videos because of views, if thats the case that means any competitor can do this to you. It might just be the algorithm isnt favoring your content anymore

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We do not have much competition here. And I am good friends with most of the people doing video reviews in my region.
I mean, im not specifically sad because my videos cannot get to 10, 20, 30, 40, 50k etc... anymore, since ad revenue from views in my region is crap. I just cannot understand how views can drop so hard from these amounts to less than 1k. I feel like I am letting down all the companies sending me products for my videos.

pbztex said:

We do not have much competition here. And I am good friends with most of the people doing video reviews in my region.
I mean, im not specifically sad because my videos cannot get to 10, 20, 30, 40, 50k etc... anymore, since ad revenue from views in my region is crap. I just cannot understand how views can drop so hard from these amounts to less than 1k. I feel like I am letting down all the companies sending me products for my videos.

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Whats your CTR and Watchtime for your new videos? Maybe it isnt good compared to your previous ones