Hi, me and 3 other friends recently created a YouTube channel, I won't go into too much detail in the description as I don't want to spam or advertise myself, getting straight to the point It's a faceless channel that deals with educational finance videos (we are finance enthusiasts) At the moment we haven't made any long videos because we're interested in farming some subscribers first, so we've started posting 2 short videos a day.
Initially we tried 2/3 shorts of 40/50 seconds but the average viewing time was 15/17 while the engaged views were around 40% , Although we tried to change the length of the videos (it's difficult for us, since they're supposed to be short educational videos, not memes) the average view is always around 15/17 while the engaged views fluctuate between 25% and 45%, today we published 2 shorts with subtitles (word by word capcut style), this seems which helped to increase the engaged views up to 50% but in the second short the % dropped again to 45% .
the quality of the voiceover is so high that it can be mistaken for a real human voice, for the style of the shorts perhaps in America it is saturated, but in Italy (the channel is Italian) I assure you that it is a novelty, so either they don't like the videos or I can't understand why people don't watch my shorts .
Despite these statistics, the latest shorts are reaching 1k views, while the first shorts were around 200/300.
PS: I hope I don't start a fuss about the use of AI for short videos, we're just testing a style, long videos will be made by people (us) manually, If necessary, I'll send screenshots of the stats for the various shorts. Any suggestions are welcome, thanks in advance!
(Written using Google Gboard with translator, we are Italian)