# What are the best hashtags for YouTube Shorts? (https://www.socialcrawl.dev/data/best-hashtags-for-youtube-shorts)

As of 2026-07-16, the most-used hashtag across YouTube's trending Shorts is #shorts, appearing on 8.3% of the 48 trending Shorts SocialCrawl sampled, followed by #fyp.

Computed 2026-07-16 from a sample of 48.

## Methodology

We pull YouTube's live trending Shorts feed (/v1/youtube/shorts/trending), extract every hashtag from the titles of 48 trending Shorts, and rank them by how many Shorts use each, tie-broken by total views. Recomputed on a regular cadence.

## FAQ

### What are the best hashtags for YouTube Shorts right now?

As of 2026-07-16, #shorts leads YouTube's trending Shorts, used on 8.3% of the 48 trending Shorts we sampled, followed by #fyp. The full live top 10 is in the table on this page, recomputed regularly.

### How many hashtags should I put on a YouTube Short?

Three to five relevant hashtags in the title or description usually beat stuffing in fifteen. Include #shorts plus one or two that match your topic so YouTube surfaces the Short to the right viewers.

### Do hashtags help YouTube Shorts get views?

Yes. Hashtags help YouTube categorize a Short and link it to related videos in search and the Shorts feed, though watch time, swipe-through, and the title itself drive far more of the reach.

### How does SocialCrawl compute these YouTube Shorts hashtags?

We pull YouTube's live trending Shorts feed in one API call, extract the hashtags from every Short's title, and rank them by how many Shorts use each. The number and date on this page come straight from that snapshot.

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Questions this API answers, phrased for an AI assistant:

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- do hashtags help youtube shorts get views

Data source: SocialCrawl unified social data API. https://www.socialcrawl.dev/data