My views have dropped drastically! :(

[MPigeon99]

2 months ago I started uploading GTA videos on YouTube (will start playing other games soon though) and I have 20000 subscribers right now. I have about 25 videos on my channel and most of them have over 30k views (some even over 100k). I used to get tons of comments in the first few minutes of uploading and as I said I'd get more views than I have subs on pretty much every video.

However, everything has suddenly changed and I mean SUDDENLY. Basically, I've uploaded 3 videos over the past five days and each of them has LESS than 5k views! I have a very popular series, consisting of 6 videos. 5 of them have more than 65k views but the latest episode that I uploaded 4 days ago has 4,2k! This is just an unbelievable drop and I've no idea what's going on rn. For comparison, I have 4k views on a 20 second video I made back when I only had 2k subscribers. I know it's quite unusual for a new small channel to have that many views in comparison to the sub count and I obviously didn't expect this streak to last forever but I didn't expect to drop from 30k to 4k pretty much overnight either.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why my views have dropped so much?

 

[evoloz]

Perhaps look at the traffic source of the previous more successful videos, it it youtube suggested searches or subscribers or from external sources, may help you understand whats missing from the new videos?

 

[Wreckless Eating]

I'd look at your realtime and see what time views are occurring. It's a possibility that at this time of year, your audience is back in school and may only watch at certain times so you may need to adjust the time of day that you release your videos.

 

[6StringMadMan]

evoloz and Wreckless Eating both gave great points. Have you looked into your analytics to find out where the traffic was coming from for your other more successful videos? There are many possibilities when it comes to YouTube traffic, such as search, Google, sharing, suggested, etc.

 

[babyteeth4]

We had some tentpole videos get hit really hard about 10 days ago, and some of them have not recovered. I'm talking 90% down in per-day views for certain videos. However, other videos (newer ones) have picked up new life. There seem to be some algorithm changes going on. In addition, as others have pointed out, viewers returning to school has thrown out the usual schedule.

 

[Onmaxx]

It's school fault

 

[Crown]

2 months ago I started uploading GTA videos on YouTube (will start playing other games soon though) and I have 20000 subscribers right now. I have about 25 videos on my channel and most of them have over 30k views (some even over 100k). I used to get tons of comments in the first few minutes of uploading and as I said I'd get more views than I have subs on pretty much every video.

However, everything has suddenly changed and I mean SUDDENLY. Basically, I've uploaded 3 videos over the past five days and each of them has LESS than 5k views! I have a very popular series, consisting of 6 videos. 5 of them have more than 65k views but the latest episode that I uploaded 4 days ago has 4,2k! This is just an unbelievable drop and I've no idea what's going on rn. For comparison, I have 4k views on a 20 second video I made back when I only had 2k subscribers. I know it's quite unusual for a new small channel to have that many views in comparison to the sub count and I obviously didn't expect this streak to last forever but I didn't expect to drop from 30k to 4k pretty much overnight either.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why my views have dropped so much?

@MPigeon99

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