Testing Shorts as Crochet YouTuber - This Happened to my Stats.

One YouTube Short a Day, Shocking Stats on My Crochet Channel

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I made an experiment. I posted one Short on my YouTube channel every single day for one week.

According to YouTube gurus, this is how posting Shorts helps grow your channel:

1. You add another chance to get discovered by the algorithm.
2. You might get a new subscriber which translates into more watch hours and better engagement.
3. You can earn through a subscription-based program, to join you need 3M views on your short videos and 500 subscribers.

Reasons from a small crochet channel, the end.

However, the watch time accumulated from the short videos doesn’t count toward the 4000 watch hours you need to enter the YouTube partner program.

Still, I tried out YouTube shorts and the stats shocked me.

YouTube Shorts, here we go. — I said.

From a long video, I made snippets. I felt cringed. But after publishing my first creepy/crappy video, I am immune to self-embarrassment. Honestly.

For seven days I shared, actually scheduled, one short video less than one minute long…