New YouTube Channel Stalled After 26 Views With 1.5K Impressions | 1.5% CTR After 4 Hours

So today I have created a new channel and uploaded its first video, it grew to 26 natural views and has completely stalled. Here is the data after 4 hours roughly:

First 4 hours 13 minutes

Views

26

Impressions click-through rate

1.5%

Average view duration

1:57

The impressions CTR seem really low, the impressions said 1.5k as well so its been shown to 1.5k but 1.5% clicked through sounds ridiculously low. The thumbnail really stands out well too. I am curious whats caused this, the 26 views seems good and AVD is okayish as the video is about 15 mins but I am unsure what to make of these early stats.

Is 1.5% CTR low for a new channel and could it be that YT is sharing the video to a completely irrelevant audience so its low to begin with? I am curious what to expect. Is this normal? If this was your new channel would you tweak anything or leave it be? Title tags and desc seem fine and target to right people too.

Quote from Symph

bro my new channel can't even get FIVE VIEWS on a video. What are you complaining about? "Just start a new channel!" He says. "Just be consistent!" He says..... Pfffft..

Lmao no complaints its the click through rate vs impressions lol says 1500 and only 26 views from that seems very small but not sure if its normal with a new channel. Think they may have served it to the wrong audience maybe or the video sucks haha post your new one up if want and I can do a full review

The 24 hour stats are in, 3 vids on new one:

49
107
38

That is not too bad at all given zero promotion, purely natural algogrow lol new word Need to check the impressions and CTR though.

Quote from Symph

Wait...so impressions are people who saw the thumbnail, and then views are how many people clicked after seeing it? How does this work, cause if that's the cause, my thumbnails may not be doing so bad, youtube just isn't sharing them. It says my channel as a whole has had 77 impressions and gotten 8 views. That's a reeeeally small test batch.

Yeah haha so your CTR is click through rate which is the percent of impressions (people who see the thumbnail) actually went on to click onto the video. Like you may have a 10% CTR means 1 in 10 click through to it.

Quote from Symph

Well but then it says the click through rate is 1 percent, that seems pretty bad... ugh.... Why don't people wanna learn why ultrakill isn't a cheese sandwich??? lol I'm trying to save people from trying to use this video game as a washing machine and they don't even care!! I will say this though, my thumbs haven't been uploading in HD, not sure if that's gonna have an impact but I figured out how to fix it for he next ones... and maybe I really should make those dang shorts it just tacks on another annoying step to this process lolol

It does seem very low at first but it can change over time.

Quote from Symph

I dunno, right now twitch and tiktok are the two places I'm actually steadily growing so I'm just focusing on them until I feel like I can take more on. Twitch is honestly pretty addicting, I gain more followers just chatting in other people's streams than doing my own sometimes.

Thats awesome just keep doing what works and motivates you man. I need to sign into my tiktok and catch up with you