This dog may have saved my life

@Chewsi Posting here might actually hurt your channel because people will watch for a split second then click away, which is bad for impressions. The thing with shorts is that they either get like 7 views or around 2K views, and if you're lucky one can get millions of views, which causes a lot of people to subscribe. Shorts is the only reason I have 123K views on this video, because people who subsribed to my shorts also watched it:

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@SW-User I subscribed to your channel:). How did you get it to rank so high in views?

@Chewsi I actually decided to terminate my channel ever since my poor Koda (the dog) got epilepsy. He's totally fine now, but if I was to lose him it would be too hard for me to bear having a YouTube channel with him. I had a lot more videos, but I've deleted most of them, and now I just have a few to show friends and family, so no need to subsribe. :)

I think the lack of editing in this video actually did me well, because it's harder to edit videos than I originally thought it would be, and the edits actually ended up turning people away. Another reason is, like I said, that I made a looot of shorts, which typically gained around 2K to 3K views, and the people who subscribed after watching those shorts, then watched and liked this video. If you have some money to spare, then I think it would be worth it to pay an editor to do the editing for you.

As you move forward with making videos, you could eventually find some sort of niche. My own idea was to make videos of happy Ukrainian street dogs, so that would be my channel's image so to speak. Like one niche is dog parks, someone else's niche could be dog training, or a very popular niche right now which is treating pets luxuriously, such as brushing their teeth et cetera.. last mentioned does really well on Facebook I've noticed. You can pay Facebook and other platforms to advertise your content, you can also make a Facebook page and upload videos there yourself. But you should stick to uploading on big websites, like YouTube, Facebook or TikTok which specialize in videos to at least some extent, since posting on these smaller websites will backfire.

But yeah, right now shorts on YouTube are out of control and the best possible way to gain subsribers. The views gained on shorts count as it's own section in terms of getting monetized on YouTube, but that doesn't matter since you'll gain subscribers from them, who will then watch your videos. If it didn't work out you should just keep uploading shorts, and it will eventually. Leave the editing out of shorts.

That's pretty much all the advice I have, since I stopped making videos myself, but it was going really well, really fast, up until then. :)