Does Trending Audio Help YouTube Shorts?
About 1 minute · Checked November 2026
We added trending audio and a Subscribe button to our 4 to 7 second Shorts. They still beat our usual views, but didn't take off the way we hoped, at least not yet. The formula mattered more than the audio.
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Does trending audio help YouTube Shorts?
In our test, it didn't make a big difference. The Shorts did well either way.
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I'm testing a hack to going viral. After posting 11 videos that follow this viral formula and seeing all of them get more views than what's normal for my channel, I decided to do it again, but this time add trending audio and a button to encourage people to subscribe. Did it work? The three videos I posted for this experiment are still doing better than normal, but they're just not hitting it out of the park like I thought they might, yet. So, while it's day 25 on the road to 100,000 YouTube subscribers, I made three more videos to post for this test. So, subscribe to hear the results and I'll see you tomorrow because
We're Justin and Megan. Along with the how-tos, we share a few minutes of faith every day from the season we're walking through right now.
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