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I'm not sure shorts make much in the way of money vs regular videos. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H6st2yl6jNE https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H6st2yl6jNE As
by dageshi 3y ago
I'm not sure shorts make much in the way of money vs regular videos.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H6st2yl6jNE https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H6st2yl6jNE
As they said, I think it might be good for discovery. My personal habits back that up, I'm aware of some channels I wouldn't otherwise be without shorts.
- sshine 3y agoShorts are more addictive. Shorts will capture your attention for longer and display ads in-between more frequently. I find musicians and naked ladies via shorts, but I rarely extend my science and programming channels via shorts.
- viraptor 3y agoIt seems to be mostly driven by what you click on. Like, my shorts will always include Hank Green, Vsauce, some entertainment like VLDL or dropout.tv. Just click "not interested" on stuff you don't care about.
- darth_avocado 3y agoI found the opposite true. Shorts lowers the barrier of entry and generates a large volume of garbage content. You’d have one original video, followed by thousands of other either lip syncing to the original or just nodding their head (aka reacting) to it. It is very easy to get annoyed by it and leave the platform.
- BuyMyBitcoins 3y agoPersonally, I can’t stand Shorts because they don’t let me scrub through the video. I actively avoid watching them because I feel like I’m being forced to watch the whole thing.
- cma 3y agoIt is crazy, even tiktok lets you scrub if it is longer than a really short loop. And youtube so closely copied the UI that they don't let you even adjust the volume of shorts on desktop browsers.
- randomgg 3y agotap to pause, then you can scrub at the bottom.
- PennRobotics 3y agoYou can redirect to /watch?v=<contentid> and then scrub, which is what I always change the URL to if I need to send a link to someone else, but this is a pain to change manually. (Auto-Redirect Short To "Normal" Video URL would be a good extension if I knew how to do one or had time to learn.)
- tonfreed 3y agoAll I found on shorts was an attractive young lady playing guitar really badly but still having millions of views and comments saying how good she sounded. I'd forgive her if she was a beginner, but she's been uploading videos for years.
- sshine 3y agoIt’s like chess boxers: they’re not the best chess players or the best boxers. Being hot and being a guitarist is a cross-discipline. :-D
- j45 3y agoShorts are good for discovery and a form of it’s own bite sized content. In a way a commercial for the content except it’s a lie roof the content.
- cowsup 3y agoIf I'm someone who's watching Shorts, I'm probably viewing 10-30 videos in a 10 minute span. That's 10-30 creators who are getting a view out of me. If I'm watching proper long-form content for that same 10 minute window, then maybe 2-3 creators are getting a view out of me. Multiply that across the millions of users of YouTube, and it's pretty lucrative to make content for Shorts. Your dollar-per-view is likely lower, but the massive amount of views you pick up end up working out in your favor.
- trogdor 3y agoYouTube ad revenue is far more correlated to watch time than number of views.
- AraceliHarker 3y agoShorts is solely from promoting products rather than AdSense. So you don't have to worry about the revenue.