Why sharing your YouTube videos can hurt your channel

David Lindgren
6 min readMar 8, 2023

You might think that sharing links to your YouTube videos is a great strategy to grow your channel, but is it really?

It’s true that high engagement on your video in the first 24 hours after publishing is great.

That shows YouTube that it’s probably a good video and that it “deserves” more reach.

(In this case, “deserve” just means that YouTube sees that this video can help keep their users on the platform a little bit longer.

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