Shorts from every long video: how to get your first views

YouTube barely shows long videos from a new channel: it has no history yet, and a video can sit at zero views for weeks. Shorts, however, are shown to new viewers right away, even on an empty channel. So the best free way to promote a long video is to cut a few Shorts from it with a link to the full version. How to turn it on: My projects → project → Settings → “Autopilot” block → “Shorts from every long video”: 1, 2 or 3. Save the autopilot. What happens next, without your involvement: 1. The long video is published on YouTube. 2. The AI picks its most striking moments, 12–58 seconds each. 3. Vertical Shorts are built from them: the full-width frame on a blurred background, a large title at the top and “Full video on the channel” in the last seconds. 4. The Shorts go out on the same channel 2, 6 and 12 hours after the long video — not all at once. If TikTok channels are selected in the project's auto-publishing, they go there at the same time. 5. Each Short has a link to the full video in its description, and after publishing the channel leaves a comment with the same link. All Shorts appear in the Planner — you can move or delete them like any other publication. What you can do by hand for a bigger effect: in YouTube Studio set a “Related video” (the full video) for each Short and pin the comment with the link. The YouTube API does not allow this, only Studio does. Pinning comments and clickable links in descriptions are unlocked after channel verification (selfie or ID) — YouTube Studio → Settings → Channel → “Feature eligibility”. Shorts are cut only from videos built from a script with a voiceover. Each Short is a separate YouTube upload and counts towards the daily upload limit.