Shorts
The vertical format on its own terms: cut rhythm, the first two seconds, and why a Short that holds attention looks nothing like a trimmed long-form video.
- Shorts · 6 min read
Making AI Shorts that do not look AI
On 23 August 2026 we pulled the server-side HTML of 14 competitor home pages without running JavaScript.
- Shorts · 7 min read
Captions that hold attention
On 22 August 2026, ViewMade's published output spec listed 7 embedded caption styles for its 1080x1920 vertical renders.
- Shorts · 6 min read
The documentary Short format
In a keyword measurement run on 23 August 2026, the aviation disasters niche scored 94 out of 100 for search demand, 85 for saturation, and 62 for opportunity,
- Shorts · 8 min read
Repurposing long form into Shorts
On 19 August 2026, a direct HTTP fetch of storyshort.ai returned an 11-word server-side body on every page tested, because the entire product renders in
- Shorts · 6 min read
Audio on a Short: what actually matters
ViewMade ships 5 voiceover languages per render, measured on 22 August 2026.
- Shorts · 7 min read
Publishing Shorts in a second language
As of 22 August 2026, ViewMade ships voiceover in 5 languages and an interface in 7, while StoryShort had built 11,994 category pages per language across 5
- Shorts · 7 min read
Text overlay styles measured
ViewMade ships 7 built-in caption styles for vertical shorts, measured on 22 August 2026 against its own pricing and product documentation.
- Shorts · 6 min read
Framing archive footage vertically
ViewMade's documented output for a finished Short is 1080x1920 pixels, a vertical frame recorded on its pricing and product documentation page on 22 August
- Shorts · 4 min read
Is there an AI tool that finds real footage and narrates it? What sourcing actually involves
Sourcing real archive footage is the stage that decides whether a Short looks like a record or a catalogue, and it is the stage most tools quietly skip. What it takes, measured on one render.
- Shorts · 6 min read
How to publish YouTube Shorts daily when you cannot edit video
Where "no editing required" is true, where it quietly stops being true, and the six checks that let someone who has never opened a timeline judge whether a finished video is any good.
- Shorts · 8 min read
Why your AI Shorts look like stock footage, and the four things that fix it
The four measurable reasons an automated vertical video reads as generic, checked against a frame-accurate reference set of ten high-retention Shorts and one full production manifest.
- Shorts · 4 min read
We measured the cut rhythm of Shorts that work. Here are the numbers.
Ten high-retention vertical documentaries, measured shot by shot: how long they run, how often they cut, and how long a single shot is allowed to sit before attention leaves.
Other subjects
- Faceless channels
Starting and running a channel that never shows a face: picking the subject, judging whether a niche is really saturated, and what the format costs to sustain.
- YouTube SEO
How discovery actually works on YouTube, and which parts of the metadata are worth your time versus which ones creators over-invest in.
- Scripts
Writing the thing before filming it: hooks that are not clickbait, structure that survives the middle, and how much of a script is worth writing at all.
- Tools and costs
What the software stack around a channel really costs, what each tool is for, and where the categories overlap enough that you are paying twice.
- Growth and money
Subscribers, watch time and revenue: reading your own analytics without flattering yourself, and what changes between the first hundred and the first thousand.