ViewMadeAcademy
A written school for YouTube Shorts. How the feed decides, what a viewer does in the first seconds, how often to post, whether you need long form, and how to run all of it with ViewMade. Every YouTube fact is sourced and dated.
How the Shorts feed decides
The feed follows viewers, not channels, and once you see that, every decision about a Short gets simpler.
Contents
Foundations
How the platform decides and how it pays.
Craft
What makes one Short worth finishing.
- The first seconds
A Short is won or lost before the viewer has decided anything consciously, so the opening deserves more of your effort than any other part.
- Choosing a topic, and a niche
What makes a subject worth forty seconds of a stranger's attention, how to keep a channel coherent without making it repetitive, and where to find the next idea.
- Packaging: title, description and cover
Everything that travels with a Short besides the video itself, what each part actually does, and a checklist for the minute before you press upload.
Growth
Cadence, long form and reading the numbers.
- How many Shorts a day?
There is no magic number, but there is an honest way to find yours.
- Do you need long form?
Two doors into the Partner Programme, one bridge between formats, and an honest answer about when a longer video is worth the effort.
- Reading your analytics
Which numbers in YouTube Studio tell you something about a Short, in what order to read them, and what to compare them against.
With ViewMade
Running the whole loop as one routine.
- Your first Short in Studio
A practical tour of the room where one line becomes a finished vertical video.
- Writing a topic that renders
How to write the one sentence you type into ViewMade so that the engine finds real footage, keeps your angle and makes the Short you had in mind.
- Automatic Shorts: set it once, review every morning
A practical guide to the Automatic option in Studio: how to set it up well, what the studio does overnight, and the short morning routine that makes it work.
- Running a channel with ViewMade
The weekly routine that keeps a Shorts channel publishing: what ViewMade does, what stays with you, and how automation fits in honestly.
How this school is written
Sourced
A rule that belongs to YouTube carries a numbered footnote to YouTube's own page. Advice that is ours says it is ours.
Schematic figures
The figures draw a shape, never a measurement. Where a chart has no numbers on it, that is deliberate.
Dated
Thresholds and policies move. Every paper prints the day it was last checked, so you know how old a fact is.