YouTube is changing what a view means for YouTube Shorts

How many views are your YouTube videos receiving?In order to truly know this, you have to understand how a view is counted on YouTube in the first place. On a traditional YouTube video, YouTube adds a view to your video’s view count if a viewer watches 30 seconds or more of your upload. However, when YouTube launched YouTube Shorts four-and-a-half years ago, it didn’t count views on shortform videos in the same way. Instead, YouTube would count a view on a YouTube Shorts video if a user watched for at least a few seconds. YouTube never provided an exact number of seconds, but it was clearly much shorter than the 30 second requirement for a YouTube video. SEE ALSO: YouTube turns 20 years old. Did you know it was originally a dating website? However, YouTube is now changing how it counts views for YouTube Shorts.As of March 31, 2025, YouTube will add a view to your YouTube Shorts view count at the moment your shortform video begins to play. There is no view time requirement anymore for a YouTube Shorts video. YouTube will basically count a view if a user just sees your video at all. And because YouTube Shorts content loops, YouTube will count a new view each time that video replays from the beginning too.According to YouTube, it’s making this change at creators’ requests as it more accurately reflects a more helpful metric for YouTube Shorts content strategies in particular. SEE ALSO: YouTube Shorts is getting a tool for adding…YouTube is changing what a view means for YouTube Shorts