The UGLY TRUTH about YOUTUBE SHORTS

youtube shorts will not get you monetized youtube shorts alone will not grow your youtube channel youtube shorts could in fact hurt your channel these sound horrible and that's the ugly truth but there's more to this wait for it hello if you're new around here i'm alan i'm a youtube certified expert and i help grow your youtube channel recently to prove that my methods work i started a second youtube channel grew it to over 7000 subscribers in three months and got that monetized and that's where i learned this ugly truth the ugly truth about youtube shorts and you can too just smash that like button and we'll get started are we we ready i'm i'm gonna wait until you smash youtube shorts is a powerful tool that can get your face in front of other people even when you have a very small audience if you can hijack a topic that's either trending right now or make a video that is engaging within a niche it will place itself next to all of your nearest rivals in that specific topic and can hoard in a load of people youtube shorts are fantastic for building communities from xero in fact i used youtube shorts to catapult my new youtube channel and then built that base and started creating further content as you can see here youtube short youtube short youtube short hundreds of thousands of views and in the process hundreds if not thousands of subscribers from those videos alone but the ugly truth is if that's all you are going to do then you are running the risk of shooting yourself in the foot one youtube shorts does not give you watch time towards monetization for you to be monetized you need 1 000 subscribers total and 4 000 hours of watch time over a rolling 12 month basis simple right 200 000 views half a minute ago 100 000 like minutes you're halfway no no youtube do not count the short shelf views or short plays as monetizable watch time it doesn't even count towards the 4 000 hours it also can't place adverts against it so therefore you get next to nothing in ad revenue which leads me to point number two how are you going to make money on a 30 second clip unless you're in the us where there is a chance that you might get picked by the shorts program where they've got 100 million dollars and they're slowly throwing out money to people you don't actually make money directly from a youtube show youtube can't place adverts against it and they don't run b-rolls or video adverts in front of them they might do on a desktop but they certainly don't pay us creators you also can't see the description that easily so affiliate links are very hard to come by so three you may be able to engage people and you may even get subscribers but in the long run if you're only turning out short form content your channel will struggle to get over a watch time will struggle to get additional money and therefore will struggle to rank in search long term the issue here happens to be is behaviour of the user in my case i was able to pair this up on my crypto rookie channel once again this is the channel that i took from zero to 7 000 subscribers and monetized in three months i use the youtube shorts as a hook a way to bring them in to say hello to build an audience around a specific idea once i know that those videos got me a few hundred thousand views and a few thousand subscribers i then started making longer form videos for them to indulge in because i've proven that this is the type of people that watch that 30 second clip so maybe they'd want to watch a 5 6 7 10 minute video based on exactly that topic case in point maybe you're doing knitting tutorials in 30 seconds then you want to do a longer form knitting pattern video for them to binge watch later maybe you're showing people how to do headshots in fortnite and then later you want to show compilations and build setups the ugly truth about youtube shots is that won't sustain your channel alone unless you are sensible and start using strategy to build up watch time to beat the youtube algorithm why not check out this video here on exactly how to beat the youtube algorithm and click here to improve your click-through rate