What is YouTube Shorts?
YouTube's short vertical video format.
Shorts are vertical videos shown in their own feed inside YouTube and can be up to three minutes long. They're a strong way for new channels to get discovered.
You can adapt videos made for Reels or TikTok to Shorts; uploading without watermarks and writing a clear topic in the title helps discovery.
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