🌴 What Kind of Videos Does YouTube Actually Favor?

Quick reality check: YouTube doesn’t “pick favorites.” The system doesn’t care if you’re making Shorts, long-form, tutorials, vlogs, or reviews.

What matters is performance and personalization 👇

✅ Performance: When YouTube recommends your video, do people click? Do they stick around? Do they enjoy it (likes, comments, not hitting “not interested”)?

✅ Personalization: The algorithm looks at each viewer’s history. What did they watch before? What topics or creators do they binge? What videos are often watched together? That’s how YouTube decides if your video is the right fit for that person.

🌊 External Factors That Affect Reach

Topic Interest – Some niches just have more demand than others.

Competition – If other channels in your niche are crushing it, your video has to compete head-to-head.

Seasonality – Views naturally dip or spike depending on holidays, seasons, or life events.

🏖 Bottom Line

Don’t stress about “gaming” the system. Instead, focus on your audience:

What do they click on?

What do they watch all the way through?

Which topics keep them coming back?

If you give them more of that, the recommendations will follow.

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