- All right then, YouTube shorts,
three and a half billion views per day.
Let's help you get a piece of action.
(upbeat music)
(humming)
Hey folks, welcome back to Vid IQ.
My name is Rob.
If this is your first time here,
we aren't a channel all about Avengers references.
We are the YouTube tool channel and learning Academy
that educates you on your YouTube journey
and what we want to educate you once a day is YouTube short.
So let's just jump straight into it.
All right then, this guide is going to assume
that you have already signed up to and downloaded Vid IQ.
If you haven't already, then make sure to get
either the Chrome or Firefox extension.
And as a little bonus offering, I am going to include a link
in the video description of this video
just below the like button.
That includes a 30 day full access trial
to all of the Vid IQ tools
which allows you to use everything
that I'm going to go show you, along with dozens more tools
so make sure to check them out.
The first thing I wanna show you is super simple
and it's going to help you track
your YouTube shorts data very quickly
'cause right now YouTube does offer some analytics,
but are not easily accessible.
So in the YouTube studio, if you click see more
from the analytics page, you'll get this lovely graph.
And then you can click on traffic sources
in the top left hand corner here,
and you'll be able to see all of your views
from different traffic sources.
And if you scroll down here, hopefully,
if you've already started making some YouTube shorts,
you will see this analytic here showing you
how many views you're getting on your YouTube shorts
as well as the contribution to your total channel views,
watch time, average view duration and so on.
But we hear a Vid IQ wants to make that super easy for you.
So if we go back to the YouTube homepage,
once you have the Vid IQ Chrome extension installed,
you'll start see some tools down the left-hand side.
You'll also see our likes and dislikes tool
on all of the thumbnails of videos, but most importantly,
on pretty much any YouTube screen, you're gonna see this,
what we call the real-time stats bar.
And it's a snapshot of your channel
so that you don't have to go
to YouTube analytics all of the time
to see how many subscribers you have,
how many views you've got in the last 48 hours.
And for us, how many views we've got in the last 60 minutes
which is a three and a half thousand.
Now what makes this super powerful is
if you mouse over the real-time stats bar,
it gives you even more analytics, kind of like a breakdown,
a graph of these views over the last 60 minutes and so on.
But what we've thoughtfully added very recently is this one,
the third analytic down, shorts views.
So this is gonna separate your channel views
and show you only your YouTube shorts views on your channel.
So for us over the last 48 hours,
we've received 180,000 total channel views.
And of those views, nearly 3,000 of them have come
from exclusively YouTube shorts.
If we click the check mark here, you will now see
that it's added the analytic to the top real time stats bar.
So I don't even have to mouse over.
You can see it right there.
We're getting 2,900 views every 48 hours right now
on our main Vid IQ channel.
And this is a real-time stats bar, which is 100% free.
If you download our Chrome extension or Firefox extension,
you get this included for no pennies whatsoever.
You're welcome.
Now then by comparison,
I wanted to show you what a shorts channel may look like
if you're making mostly or all YouTube shorts.
This is the Vid IQ YouTube shorts channel
where we only make YouTube shorts videos.
And as you can see on the real-time stats bar,
we have over the last 48 hours in total, 1,600 views.
But interestingly, about half of them,
900 views came from shorts.
So not only are we getting shorts views as intended,
but we're getting views from outside
of YouTube shorts as well, which is interesting.
Also something else that's really useful
for channels working towards 4,000 hours of watch time.
If you haven't yet met that requirement,
then we will show you this extra, additional metric
in amber to show you what your progress is like.
So again, even though we're making
only YouTube shorts videos here,
we are actually getting some hours towards monetization.
And this tool is useful whether or not you're making shorts
or long phone content.
If you wanna get towards 4,000 hours of watch time,
then this tool is nice
and handy to look at wherever you are on YouTube.
Once again, you're welcome.
Any information you can get about
how well your YouTube shorts are performing is going
to be super important of course.
And I'm recommending to you right now
to just make YouTube shorts
because that opportunity may soon disappear.
And it'd be a lot harder to break through
in the YouTube shorts area.
We've done a full video about this very recently.
But what you can also do his research.
Not only make YouTube shorts,
but be a little smarter about doing that.
And of course, no matter what you're using life,
you wanna be smart and not making mistakes, right?
(explosion)
This is where your research on YouTube shorts can begin.
Go to a search bar and simply type in, hashtag shorts.
Now the first results will be this little symbol.
And if you click on it,
it will take you to what YouTube are calling
either a landing page or a pivot page.
And this is just going to give you a breakdown
of all of the videos that are using a hashtag.
In this case, hashtag shorts.
And so the breakdown here is
that there are now five million videos on this topic.
This time week, it was around about three million.
So they're a lot of creators jumping
onto this topic right now.
And there are 714,000 channels
who are making YouTube shorts.
So this information is useful.
This is gonna show you videos that have millions of views,
relevant videos, including our video
where we talked about YouTube shorts.
Some of these will be shorts themselves.
Some won't be, because as you can see,
some of these videos are longer than 10 minutes,
but many of them will be under a minute
because they are YouTube shorts,
because YouTube is telling all of us as creators
to include hashtag shorts.
Now then, this is where Vid IQ is going
to take your shorts research to the next level.
Down the left hand side, we have lots of tools
and I want you to click on most viewed in this case
because what this is gonna do is
show you the most viewed videos on YouTube,
depending on your search criteria.
So what I'm gonna do here is
first of all clear out the country filter.
So we're searching for all videos on a topic.
But the topic we're going to add here is, hashtag shorts
because obviously, we wanna find out more
about videos that are performing well with hashtag shorts.
And we can see plenty here
that are doing well with millions of views.
And these are over the last seven days
and we see the velocity.
We can even change this down to 48 hours
to really see what's kind of trending
in the YouTube shot space.
But here's a really crucial thing,
for those channels who are relatively small at this point,
don't have many subscribers, you can filter by channel size.
So what we're gonna do here
on the channel subscriber filter is sort by any channels
with up to a thousand subscribers making videos
that include hashtag shorts.
And then things get really interesting
because we have a channel here right at the top
with 700 subscribers.
And they've got a video that they made two days ago
that has 40,000 views.
And they're getting a thousand views per hour right now.
So this is where there is my area of interest.
What's gonna be going on here.
And as we can see,
there's all sorts of gaming shorts occurring as popular ones
for small channels.
Because to be honest, there's a lot of gaming shorts
that are doing really well on YouTube.
So you can use all of this information
to very quickly research
what may be happening in your world.
Now you can, if you want, drill down even deeper
into the research, through the most view tool.
Currently we have it as hashtag shorts,
but let's just change that.
Let's go hashtag shorts and put
in a video game such as Minecraft.
I am more than positive there'll be tons of shorts
on this topic.
There they are.
A channel here with 35,000 views, only 240 subscribers.
What about doing warn where we have hashtag shorts, makeup?
I'm sure there'll be videos on that topic as well.
Yes, there are.
And everybody's favorite here,
a little bit of hashtag shorts, A-S-M-R.
And there's also videos there.
Remember, these are all channels making shorts,
using hashtag shorts, and their channels
under a thousand subscribers,
proving that small channels can really make a huge dent
in this YouTube shorts area right now,
but you've got to act fast.
So as you can see, what the most viewed tool is going
to allow you to do is track those hashtag short videos
in your topic of interest that are working well
for creators who may be of a similar size to you,
perhaps less than 1,000 subscribers.
And as part of a research,
the really important thing
you should be doing is watching these videos to see
why they are popular.
These videos will be grabbing the viewers attention
in the very small amount of time they have with the view.
Oh, just hang on one second.
(bullet flying)
That was close.
I think you get the general idea here, don't you?
Make sure to use Vid IQ's tools to help you get more views
on your YouTube shots.
This just isn't gonna end, is it?
Now, as I showed you earlier
on the real-time stats bar is completely free 100% access.
The most view tool does require pro and boost
to take full advantage of it, but as I said earlier,
there is a link in the video description
that's gonna give you a 30 days of full access
and not only those tools, but everything we have to offer,
including the Vid IQ Academy.
You've marked my play button.
That's it, come on.