Youtube suggested views turned off

I created a new channel in a niche that is familiar to me. The first video got quite good views for the first video with 0 subscribers on the channel. I promoted it through a couple of my other channels through end screens, but almost all of the views came from recommended videos. The second video got a lot more suggested views. I didn't post the video after that as it kept growing and gaining more real-time views. And I wanted to get monetization, since the content is expensive. When I met the monetization quota, I linked adsense and applied for monetization. I also had a problem with adsense, as it has not received funds for the past months from other channels, and I contacted support. Very strange, but it was after that that the overall statistics began to fall and fell almost to 0. The next day after the stats dropped, I posted a new video and I no longer receive views from recommended videos from it. Subsequent videos also do not receive these views. CTR and retention in this niche is considered good. What do you think about this?

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I think there's a big difference between 18.4% CTR and 13.5% CTR. What I personally noticed.. is that if CTR drops bellow 15% the video starts dying. I don't know if this is the case here, but it might be.

Do one experiment - when you publish your next video, copy the title, tags, description and hashtags of the most popular video in that niche. You can alter the description a bit, but make sure you copy and paste the title, tags and hash tags 'as is'. Also try to 'match' with their thumbnail.

I faced the same problem with my You Tube channel when my views from suggested videos dropped down for no reason. While I am not claiming that this is the 'solution', but you should give it a try for few videos - maybe next 5 to 10 videos and observe for a period of time and then analyze what happens.

kukuruziuz said:

I think there's a big difference between 18.4% CTR and 13.5% CTR. What I personally noticed.. is that if CTR drops bellow 15% the video starts dying. I don't know if this is the case here, but it might be.

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The thing is that the first video has the smallest CTR