YouTube Help How does making shorts work?

[Desocrates]

How do you actually upload a short to youtube? Do you just upload a short video like any other video and put #Short or something in the title or is there another way?

 

[SILTHW]

This covers most of it:

 

[Beanie Draws]

Keep in mind, if you're doing shorts for the views, it might take a lot longer than you expect to see traction. But it's verticle under 1 minute videos with #shorts.

I will add, I made a shorts video the other week, but forget to add the #shorts label until later. I'm not sure if that had any impact on out of the gate performance as the shorts impressions and traffic is lower than what I normally get.
I've heard you don't "need" to put #shorts in the title and that you only "need" to put it in the description. I forgot to put the #shorts label in either and it seems it MAY have impacted the video out of the gate, but I can't be certain. I've been doing some tests with it, letting it sit to see what happens.

 

[Desocrates]

Thanks for both the replies, I'll watch that video, I'm mainly thinking of doing the shorts as I just thought I might as well along side my other videos. I was thinking of just doing shorter versions of my main videos and then maybe I can link it to my main videos saying if you want to know more then link to my other videos.

 

[SILTHW]

You lost me at "Verticle Video". Yeah, not my cup of tea. I wish there was a law against it or phones would not start recording unless there were in landscape.

I agree with you. That said, I think the issue I have is people trying to shoot content that should be shot landscape vertically. I am slowly warming to well-done vertical videos.

 

[Beanie Draws]

You lost me at "Verticle Video". Yeah, not my cup of tea. I wish there was a law against it or phones would not start recording unless there were in landscape.

I used to be the same, but as an artist, it's very limiting to constrain vertical art into a horizontal format, so far me it works out nicely sometimes. I think it's better to use the format appropriately for the artform, rather than totally trying to force the artform into the format (I've tried forcing horizontal format into a vertical format and it isn't always great) but sometimes horizontal wastes a lot of the sides of the frame, sometimes cutting off important vertical elements if your videos focus on height elements.

 

[TheShihTzuFamily]

On my other channel shorts are doing great I gain 33 subscriber and views for this month is 13.4K once u get the beta on your phone it will say Create a short so don't have to put #shorts in title or description

 

[Desocrates]

I'm guessing I can just upload on PC and put #Shorts can't I and it will work the same way?

 

[Stanley | Team TB]

I did a whole article on this... https://community.tubebuddy.com/index.php?threads/37759/#post-121742