- If you make content on this platform,
it is impossible to ignore YouTube Shorts.
And so in this video,
we're gonna give you the complete guide
on how to make them in just five minutes.
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Here are the basics.
YouTube Shorts must be 60 seconds or less in length.
As for aspect ratio, well viewers watch YouTube Shorts
on one of these, so it's vertical portrait videos.
Aim for an aspect ratio of nine by 16.
You can go as wide as a square format,
but the more you do this, the bigger these black bars
at the top and the bottom are, which is wasted space.
Absolutely anyone can create YouTube Shorts.
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start your channel today and get created.
You can make Shorts through the dedicated tool
on the YouTube mobile app,
or create them using your own video editor,
say on a computer.
When you upload the video to YouTube,
it will automatically detect that the video is a Short.
There are loads of ways to access YouTube Shorts these days
such as on the homepage, under the Shorts section,
in the subscription feed, on a channel's homepage,
by searching on YouTube for Shorts on a specific topic,
by typing in hashtag Shorts in the YouTube search bar,
and in the dedicated Shorts tab beside the home tab
at the bottom of the YouTube app.
And many of these are replicated
in the desktop experience of YouTube.
YouTube reports over 50 billion Shorts
are watched every single day.
So for creators, that's a big opportunity.
To create a Short within the app, tap on the plus button
at the top of a screen and then, create Short.
This big red button obviously records footage.
And as you do this,
a red meter fills at the top of a screen.
This is how much record time you have left.
You can record as many clips as you want.
And if you need more than 15 seconds,
tap here to give yourself 60 seconds of recording time.
This undo button will remove the last clip you recorded.
And over on the right-hand side,
you have tons of creative features such as timers,
green screens, effects and filters.
YouTube are constantly adding to this,
so play around with it.
You can add popular music and sound to your Shorts
through this button at the top of the screen.
You can search for what you need, preview it,
and then add it directly to the footage as you record it.
If you use this feature
your Short will not receive any copyright claims,
which means that you can monetize the Short
once you're in the YouTube Partner Program.
You can also add clips from your phone to the YouTube Short.
But if these clips have licensed music in them,
they may get copyright claimed because you didn't add them
through YouTube's built-in tools.
This X button will allow you to delete a Short completely
or save for later, and the tick in the bottom
right-hand corner will take you to the next stage
where you can do a bit more editing.
For example, if you want to add text of a Short,
you can type it out here and then tap on timeline to drag
and trim the text so that it displays
only when you need it to.
There are a couple more features
you can play around with here,
but ultimately you'll be tapping on next
in the top right-hand corner of the screen
to take you to the upload page.
Starting with a title, this is perhaps the most important
part of your Shorts SEO.
So make sure it's searchable or incredibly intriguing,
and keep it to 40 characters or less if you can.
That will stop the title from getting cut off
when people see it on YouTube.
Next of this is an image with a pencil icon.
This is where you can kind of select a thumbnail.
It will allow you to scrub the timeline of a Short,
and choose a single frame that represents your thumbnail.
What you can't do is upload a custom thumbnail,
unless you use this cheeky hack linked
in the top right-hand corner of the screen.
Shorts Remixing allows any creator to use the audio
from your video and the video too if you agree to it.
We'll come back to that later.
And we always recommend uploading any content to YouTube,
unlisted or private, just so that YouTube
can process it properly and you can check it.
When you're ready, it's time to upload.
So those are the very basics
of how a creator makes a YouTube Short.
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But what about the viewer's perspective?
How do they interact with a YouTube Short?
Well the truth is, very, very quickly.
Users can swipe through a lot of Shorts
because it's so easy to do.
You can also do all of the usual stuff such as likes,
comments, and shares.
The description box is hidden away a little bit
behind three dots at the top right-hand corner of a screen,
and an extra tap.
So as a pro tip, make sure to use the pinned comments
to add your own calls to action.
This box in the bottom right-hand corner is the audio source
for the YouTube Short.
If the add sound feature was used that we showed earlier,
then it will be listed here.
Otherwise, it's a original audio from the YouTube Short
that anyone can take and use on their video,
or use a remix tool and potentially use the audio
and video as parts of their own YouTube Short.
For traditional creators protective of their content,
this might seem a little scary,
but everybody who makes YouTube Shorts
agrees to these rules.
Analytics do exist for YouTube Shorts,
and they have their own dedicated section
in the YouTube studio.
It's a pretty comprehensive collection of data,
and you can view it both on desktop and on mobile.
And now for the only question that really matters,
can you make money from YouTube Shorts?
Yes, yes you can.
If you only make Shorts on YouTube,
your requirements are 1000 subscribers
and 10 million YouTube Shorts views over the last 90 days.
You don't need to track watch hours at all.
Having said that, if you do get 4,000 watch hours
from long-form content,
you can monetize YouTube Shorts as well.
But here's the catch, CPMs are tiny for Shorts
compared to long-form content.
You will need tens of millions of views
to earn hundreds of dollars.
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