YouTube Shorts Views Update

YouTube is changing up the way it counts views on Shorts, which means you could soon see an increase in your numbers.

Now, Shorts views will count the number of times your clip starts to play or replay with no minimum watch time requirement.

In the past, views for a Short on YouTube were only counted after it was played for a certain amount of seconds.

This made it hard to understand how often your clip had actually been seen, and the platform has decided to comply with this feedback.

The previous metric isn’t being completely axed either, it will be moved with a new title of ‘engaged views’ on YouTube Analytics.