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Sonam Unfiltered subscriber growth, June–July 2025 A flat subscriber count for weeks, then a near-vertical rise from a few hundred subscribers to over 15,000 within three weeks of posting one 42-second horizontal Short.
Posted one 42-second horizontal Short
A few hundred → 15,000+ subs in 3 weeks

Sonam Unfiltered — per TubeBuddy’s creator analysis (Jul 2025). Public, documented figures; not from our own tracked data.

Case in point

Sonam Unfiltered, a personal-development channel, posted a single 42-second horizontal Short in 2025. It drew nearly a million views in three weeks. Subscribers went from a few hundred to more than 15,000 in the same stretch.

The lesson: a horizontal frame stands out inside an all-vertical Shorts feed — sometimes the pattern break is the whole strategy.

  • 42 seconds — the Short’s length
  • ~1M views — in three weeks
  • 15,000+ subs — up from a few hundred

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