Short-form video guides
How to script, edit and size a vertical short, with sources linked and the date each page was last checked.
Guides
- How to script a Short that holds attention
A structure for 15 to 60 second scripts: the first line, a promise by the fifth second, beats that each add something, and an ending that stops on time.
8 min read
· Updated October 18, 2026 - How to edit a talking-head take for Shorts, TikTok and Reels
Turn one phone take into a vertical short: what to cut, how to frame and punch in, where captions go, how often to change the picture, and how to end.
5 min read
· Updated October 18, 2026 - Short-form video specs for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels and Facebook Reels
Length limits, frame and resolution for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels and Facebook Reels, each linked to its source and checked October 2026.
3 min read
· Updated October 18, 2026 - Safe zones for vertical video: where captions go on Shorts, TikTok and Reels
Where each app draws its buttons over a 1080 x 1920 short, what Meta, TikTok and Google publish for ads, and one box for captions on regular posts.
4 min read
· Updated October 23, 2026 - A faceless Shorts workflow that fits YouTube, TikTok and Meta's rules
Make faceless Shorts, TikToks and Reels step by step, with what YouTube, TikTok and Meta say about templated, reposted and AI-made video.
4 min read
· Updated October 18, 2026 - How YouTube counts Shorts views, and what engaged views are
Since March 31, 2025, every start or replay of a Short is a view. What engaged views are, what the Partner Program counts, and which metrics to read.
3 min read
· Updated October 18, 2026 - Can you monetize AI-generated Shorts? What YouTube, TikTok and Facebook's rules say
What YouTube, TikTok and Facebook require before AI-assisted short videos can earn, from each platform's own monetization and AI policies, October 2026.
5 min read
· Updated October 18, 2026 - How to add captions to TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and Facebook Reels
The steps for each app's own captions, from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook's help pages, and when to burn captions into the video instead.
4 min read
· Updated October 18, 2026 - When and how to label AI-made videos on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook
When YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook ask you to label AI-made video, what needs no label, and how to add one, from each platform's own pages.
5 min read
· Updated October 18, 2026 - How TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels and YouTube Shorts rank videos, in their own words
What TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube publish about how their short-video feeds choose what to show, quoted from their own pages, with dates.
4 min read
· Updated October 18, 2026 - Can you post the same short on TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and Facebook?
What each platform's own rules say about posting your own video on all four, what gets shown less, and what to change for each app.
4 min read
· Updated October 18, 2026 - How to write titles and captions for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels and Facebook
Each platform's own limits for titles, captions and hashtags, what each says the words are for, and how to write them, checked October 18, 2026.
4 min read
· Updated October 18, 2026
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Make your next short in ViewGum
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