YouTube’s NEW Shorts Algorithm Update Explained for 2026 (GET MORE SUBSCRIBERS FAST!)

[00:00] YouTube just released a brand new

[00:01] algorithm update for YouTube Shorts. And

[00:03] this doesn't only affect YouTube Shorts,

[00:04] this affects all of YouTube. So, you

[00:06] need to make sure that you're adapting

[00:08] to the new strategies for how to get

[00:09] more views, how to get more subscribers,

[00:11] and ultimately how to monetize your

[00:12] YouTube in 2026. And don't worry because

[00:15] I'm going to walk you through the five

[00:16] changes you need to make right now in

[00:18] this video that just helped this

[00:19] creator, this creator, and this creator

[00:21] all gain over 100,000 subscribers. And

[00:23] they're going to help you, too, so long

[00:25] as you don't skip any of them. Change

[00:26] number one is you need to understand

[00:28] what direction YouTube is actually going

[00:30] in. And in order to show this to you, I

[00:32] wanted to show you what YouTube looks

[00:33] like now. Okay. So, here's what I really

[00:36] want to emphasize to you. If we come

[00:37] over here to the YouTube homepage right

[00:39] here, what you are going to notice, the

[00:40] first thing that I am getting shown are

[00:42] three videos right here, long form

[00:44] videos. And two of these, guess what?

[00:46] Are non-sponsored videos. This one is a

[00:49] sponsored video. And then the rest of

[00:50] the content that shows up here is going

[00:52] to be shorts. And guess what? I don't

[00:54] even engage with shorts. I don't watch

[00:56] shorts. And then if we come down a

[00:57] little bit more, we're going to see more

[00:58] long form. We're going to see more long

[01:00] form and then more shorts. And if we

[01:02] look at this, what you're going to

[01:03] notice is there are more shorts getting

[01:05] shown to people than long form content.

[01:08] And guess what? This is on a computer.

[01:10] If you come over to a mobile device,

[01:12] it's even worse. People are getting

[01:13] shown more shorts. Now, I'm not saying

[01:15] that it's worse in the case that this is

[01:17] bad for YouTube. I'm saying it's worse

[01:19] in the case that you're only uploading

[01:21] long- form content. Now, let's say that

[01:23] we come over here and we do a search for

[01:25] something. For example, how to add text

[01:27] in video cap cut. Now, what you're going

[01:29] to see is that when we do a search for

[01:31] this, one long form video gets shown and

[01:33] then the rest of the content that's

[01:35] going to show here is going to be

[01:36] shorts. And I want you to look at

[01:38] something right here because this will

[01:39] actually tell you what people are

[01:41] actually clicking on, what people are

[01:42] actually watching. This long form video

[01:44] ranking number one literally by Cap Cut

[01:47] has 89,000 views. This video almost

[01:50] 550,000. This video 430,000. This video

[01:55] 460,000. This video 568,000.

[01:58] This video 28,000. If we come in here

[02:01] 393,000,

[02:03] 68,000 3 million. So what kind of

[02:05] content do you think that people are

[02:07] actually watching when they go to search

[02:09] for something? They are not watching

[02:10] this long form content anymore. They are

[02:12] now watching shorts. And you need to

[02:14] make sure that in 2026 you are doubling

[02:17] down not only on ranking for search with

[02:20] YouTube shorts but also that you are

[02:22] doubling down on uploading more YouTube

[02:24] shorts. In fact, the biggest creators on

[02:27] the platform are now prioritizing this.

[02:29] Now change number two is you need to

[02:31] make sure that you begin ranking for

[02:32] search with YouTube shorts. And there

[02:34] are several reasons that you need to do

[02:35] this. One short show up more than

[02:37] anything else on mobile devices. two

[02:39] LLMs like Google Gemini, Chat, Chippy,

[02:41] Claude, they actually go through and

[02:43] reference shorts more than long form

[02:45] content because in a lot of cases shorts

[02:47] deliver on the promise a lot earlier.

[02:49] Now, if you want to rank for search

[02:51] right now, there's essentially two

[02:52] things that you need to be focused on

[02:54] and I want to walk you through exactly

[02:55] what these things are because one of

[02:57] them is going to be the metadata on your

[02:58] post and the second is going to be

[03:00] making sure that you're using keyword

[03:02] research the right way. Now, the first

[03:04] key to being able to rank for search

[03:05] with YouTube Shorts is you need to make

[03:07] sure that you have your metadata set up

[03:09] correctly. If we come over here, this

[03:10] video right here is ranking for YouTube

[03:13] settings. And the reason that it's

[03:14] ranking for YouTube settings is if I do

[03:16] control find and I type in YouTube

[03:18] setting, you're going to notice that

[03:19] shows up one time in the title that

[03:22] shows up two times in the description. I

[03:24] have YouTube setting right here. And

[03:26] then I also have YouTube settings in the

[03:28] next sentence. So, if you want your

[03:30] stuff to actually rank on YouTube

[03:33] search, you need to make sure that one,

[03:34] the keyword shows once in the title.

[03:37] Two, the keyword shows twice in the

[03:39] description. And if we come down here to

[03:41] the tags, you're going to notice that it

[03:43] shows more than five times. And you need

[03:45] to make sure that the same exact thing

[03:47] is happening in your content. Now, one

[03:48] of my secret weapons for being able to

[03:50] do this is Vid IQ. In fact, that's

[03:51] what's giving me these title suggestions

[03:53] right here. That's what's giving me this

[03:55] description suggestion. And that's

[03:56] what's telling me exactly what tags I

[03:58] should be putting in my video because

[04:00] Vid IQ allows you to very easily use AI

[04:03] in order to figure out exactly what

[04:05] title, what description, what tags you

[04:07] should be using for specific keywords.

[04:09] In fact, if we come over here into the

[04:11] description details right here, what we

[04:13] could actually see is that if we click

[04:15] on this, we could tell it what our video

[04:17] is about, what our target keyword is,

[04:19] what emotion we want, and this actually

[04:20] goes through and then optimizes all

[04:22] those different things for us to be able

[04:25] to rank for search. In addition to that,

[04:26] if we come over to vidiq.com and we come

[04:29] over here to discover, you're going to

[04:30] see keywords right here. And what this

[04:33] is going to show us is exactly how many

[04:35] people are searching for things. For

[04:36] example, if I type in faceless

[04:38] Instagram, we can see 10,000 people are

[04:40] searching for this a month. This then

[04:41] gives me related keywords. It gives me

[04:43] questions around this. It gives me

[04:45] matching keywords. And this is going to

[04:47] tell me how easy it's going to be to

[04:49] rank for this term and how many people

[04:51] are actually going to be searching for

[04:52] it. In addition to that, if we scroll

[04:54] down right here, this is then going to

[04:55] show us all the different trending video

[04:57] down here that we could actually make

[05:00] content like. And as you can see, there

[05:02] are tons of videos. And then basically

[05:03] all you're doing is creating content

[05:05] with the title or the description or the

[05:09] thumbnail or on the topic. And then

[05:11] guess what that does? It increase the

[05:12] odds that you're going to be able to

[05:14] rank for search. And Vid IQ is a secret

[05:16] weapon to being able to figure that all

[05:17] really easily from one dashboard. The

[05:21] best part about Vid IQ is you could go

[05:22] to the pin comment below right now and

[05:23] get started with it today for only $1.

[05:25] This is an exclusive offer for my

[05:27] audience. And guess what? I would have

[05:28] never gained over 800,000 subscribers if

[05:30] it wasn't for Vid IQ. Because my secret

[05:32] to growing has been ranking for search

[05:34] and Vid IQ is the only tool that makes

[05:36] this incredibly easy to do. Not only

[05:38] because they do the keyword research,

[05:40] but also because they help you fix your

[05:42] metadata. So, what are you waiting for?

[05:43] Go to the pin comment below and register

[05:45] for it right now. Now, the next thing

[05:46] you need to make sure you're doing is

[05:48] you need to make sure that you're

[05:49] actually turning your viewers into

[05:51] subscribers because not only is this

[05:52] going to get you your 100K plaque or

[05:54] your million plaque a lot quicker than

[05:56] if you didn't do it, it's also going to

[05:58] help your videos get pushed out more.

[06:00] And here's the perfect way to do it. So,

[06:02] when it comes to actually getting

[06:03] subscribers from your viewers, you need

[06:05] to make sure you have a call to action

[06:06] in your content. You need to make sure

[06:08] that you're getting anywhere from a 2 to

[06:09] 5% conversion rate. So, if you get 1,000

[06:12] views, you should get 2 to 5% of

[06:14] followers from that, which is going to

[06:16] be anywhere from 20 to 50 subscribers

[06:18] from just 1,000 views. Now, if we come

[06:21] into my content, this is literally gets

[06:23] really obvious when I've used it and

[06:25] when I don't. So, if we click on this

[06:26] video right here, we can see 1.7 million

[06:28] views. This video gained me 34,000

[06:31] subscribers. Now, if we come down a

[06:33] little bit, let's say that we look at

[06:34] this video right here that got a million

[06:35] views. This one only got me 4,000

[06:37] subscribers. And the sole reason for

[06:39] that is because I did not put a call to

[06:41] action in this video. And in the other

[06:43] video, I had a call to action. Now, to

[06:45] double down what I was showing you

[06:47] earlier, I want to point something out.

[06:48] If we look at this video right here, 1.9

[06:51] million views. This video is getting

[06:52] almost all of its traffic from search.

[06:54] If we come over to this video right

[06:56] here, 1.7 million views. Once again,

[06:59] most of its traffic from search. If we

[07:01] come over to this video right here, 1.6

[07:03] million views, most of the traffic

[07:04] coming from search. If we come into this

[07:06] video right here, again, 1.3 million

[07:08] views, most of the traffic from search.

[07:10] So essentially, what you're trying to do

[07:12] is rank for search on YouTube, have a

[07:14] good call to action at the end, and that

[07:16] needs to be related to whatever the goal

[07:18] of your viewers are. For example, if I

[07:19] look at all of these shorts right here

[07:21] that have gotten over a million views,

[07:22] they're all about growing faster on

[07:24] YouTube. So, what I would do is simply

[07:25] just end the video in the last 3 seconds

[07:27] and say, "If you want to grow faster on

[07:29] YouTube, hit that subscribe button." And

[07:30] then 2 to 5% of the people that watch

[07:33] that video are going to hit that. That's

[07:34] why I've been able to gain so many

[07:36] subscribers. Now, the last thing that we

[07:38] need to cover now that you know how to

[07:40] get more views, how to get more reach,

[07:41] and how to turn those views into

[07:43] subscribers is how you actually monetize

[07:45] YouTube shorts. And I actually found out

[07:46] this method years ago, but I'm going to

[07:48] tell you about it today. Okay. So, if we

[07:51] look at my YouTube content, here's how

[07:52] I'm actually doing this. If we come over

[07:54] here and we type in Robert Benjamin,

[07:56] what we're going to see is that several

[07:59] different shorts pop up. For example,

[08:00] this one right here, how to go viral on

[08:02] Tik Tok. If we click on this video right

[08:03] here, what you are going to notice is if

[08:06] I pause it, we are pointing out to this

[08:09] related video right here. And if we skip

[08:10] to the end of the video, I say that if

[08:12] you want to get started with this, click

[08:14] this video here. And then if we click

[08:16] over here, what you're going to notice

[08:17] is that this is a long form video. But

[08:19] more importantly, this is a super short

[08:22] long- form video. It's only 2 minutes

[08:23] long. And we could see right here that

[08:25] I've driven a few thousand views to this

[08:27] video. And essentially, the only point

[08:29] of this video is to get people to click

[08:31] the link in the description here or to

[08:33] click the link in the pin comment. And

[08:35] guess what? This is actually driving

[08:37] additional signups for this tool right

[08:39] here, Metricool. And I'm not only using

[08:41] it for sponsorship deals, I'm also using

[08:44] it for other stuff. Now, something you

[08:45] want to make sure that you're doing when

[08:46] you're actually implementing a strategy

[08:48] like this is you want to make sure that

[08:49] you're coming through and replying to

[08:51] every single one of these comments right

[08:52] here because guess what that does? It

[08:53] increases the odds that people actually

[08:55] end up going with this. Now, if we come

[08:57] over to another one of my videos that

[08:59] I've uploaded, for example, this one

[09:00] right here, 1.9 million views. We could

[09:02] see that if I click on the related

[09:04] video, it's going to bring us over here.

[09:05] Now, look at this video. This one has

[09:07] gotten over 50,000 views. And again, we

[09:09] could see that the goal of this is to

[09:11] drive people to my programs right here.

[09:14] And this is exactly what you should be

[09:15] doing. Whether it's for sponsorship

[09:17] deals, affiliate offers, for your own

[09:19] program, you should be using a related

[09:21] video that's going to have a pitch in

[09:22] it. And then you can actually put a pin

[09:24] comment in here because you can't put a

[09:25] comment in YouTube shorts, but this is a

[09:27] way for you to still get a lot of views

[09:29] from YouTube Shorts, drive that traffic

[09:32] over to long form and be able to

[09:34] monetize people. Now, if you're still

[09:36] struggling to grow on YouTube, it's

[09:37] probably because one, you just haven't

[09:38] implemented the things I shared with you

[09:40] in this video, or two, you need some

[09:41] personalized one-on-one help. That's

[09:43] exactly what I want to offer you. In

[09:44] fact, I want to help you grow faster on

[09:45] YouTube by telling you everything you

[09:47] need to do differently. what to do

[09:48] differently with your titles, what kind

[09:50] of content you should create, how you

[09:51] should fix your videos, and so much

[09:53] more. If that sounds interesting, well,

[09:54] please check out this video right here

[09:56] that walks you through three different

[09:57] ways we can work together one-on-one,

[09:59] and I can help you grow faster on

[10:00] YouTube the same exact way I help this

[10:01] creator, this creator, and this creator

[10:03] skyrocket their growth. I'll see you

[10:05] over there.