Question · Shorts
Do Shorts get more views than regular YouTube videos?
For channels under 100K subscribers, about two and a half times as many. Above a million, no difference.
What the week's fastest-growing videos are made of: Shorts versus long-form, and their categories and languages.
Viewershift data desk · Updated weekly · Data as of 10 Nov 2026 · 13 categories
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The trending pool is the 99,949 videos that gained views fastest over 7 days, measured between two of our own view-count readings at least two days apart (the Trending page's list). Shares are of pool videos whose format, category or language we know.
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In which categories channels most often have a video that far outperforms their usual views.
15 categories · data as of 7 Nov 2026
Question · Shorts
For channels under 100K subscribers, about two and a half times as many. Above a million, no difference.
By the numbers · Video length