Why don't any of my videos go viral?
Hey folks,
I have been managing a TikTok account for 2 months, following and applying every recommendation I find online. When I created the account, I didn't post anything right away; first, I trained the algorithm for the first 3 days by watching videos in my niche, browsing related hashtags, and occasionally commenting. As a result, my FYP became filled with niche-related videos.
As far as I know, this is the first signal, and then I create engaging, funny, and controversial posts about my niche. I started slowly, posting once a day, and my videos were approximately 5 seconds long with long text overlays. TikTok immediately pushed my posts to my niche, and they usually got 1K views in the first hour. However, I then stopped getting any views on almost every post.
I checked my analytics and didn’t see any issues; I don’t understand what the problem is here.
- Video Length: 5.11s
- Video Views: 1.1K
- Total Play Time: 2h:3m:3s
- Average Watch Time: 6.2s
- Watched Full Video: 41.36%
- New Followers: 1
- Traffic Sources: For You (98.3%)
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I also created another account, and the same thing happened. I don’t want to look for going viral with every video, but I think I have good metrics for my posts.
Do you have any recommendations for me? What is missing here? Is it necessary to continue with these metrics and be patient? Perhaps TikTok favors accounts that consistently perform well over time, but I can't be sure if that's the only issue.
