How to schedule YouTube Shorts, and what makes a video a Short

Upload a vertical or square video of three minutes or less, and YouTube shows it as a Short; nothing else marks it. In SPREVA, choose Video Post, pick your YouTube channel, give the video a title, set Privacy to public, and schedule it or add it to a queue. At that time SPREVA uploads it and follows it until YouTube has finished processing it.

YouTube decides from the video itself:

• Vertical or square. Taller than it is wide, or as tall as it is wide. 1080 by 1920 pixels is the usual size.
• Three minutes or less. Longer than that, it is a regular video, whatever its shape.
• No hashtag required. #Shorts in the title can help people find it, but it is not what makes it a Short.

When a video looks like a Short, SPREVA says so under the thumbnail field, so you know which feed it will land in before it goes out.

1. 1

   Press New in the sidebar, choose Post, then Video Post.

2. 2

   Pick your YouTube channel, and any other account the same video should go to: TikTok takes it as a video, Instagram as a Reel.

3. 3

   Add the video and write the title, up to 100 characters. Without one, SPREVA uses the first line of your text.

4. 4

   In the YouTube settings, set Privacy to public: a new upload starts as private. If the video was made with AI, turn on Label as AI-generated.

5. 5

   Schedule it, or Add to queue. If the connection drops during the upload, SPREVA picks it up where it stopped instead of starting again.

Three things YouTube does its own way:

• The thumbnail. A custom thumbnail (JPEG or PNG, up to 2 MB) shows in search, on the home page and in subscriptions. The Shorts feed and your channel's Shorts tab show a frame YouTube picks.
• The description is measured in bytes. 5,000 of them: an emoji or an accented letter takes more than one. SPREVA counts the same way and warns you first.
• No angle brackets. YouTube refuses < and > in a title or a description, and SPREVA tells you before it uploads.

Most Shorts are cut from something longer: a podcast, a stream, a talk. In SPREVA's Studio, Clips from a video finds the moments in a long recording and makes up to 10 vertical clips of 3 seconds to 3 minutes, with the captions burned in.

Each clip stays an editable project, so a caption or a cut can change before it is exported. With an AI agent connected to SPREVA, the whole week is one request:

How to cut a podcast or a stream into clips.

Each Short's numbers come back into SPREVA with the rest of your posts: views, likes and comments, and, where YouTube shares them with SPREVA, watch time, average view duration, shares and subscribers gained.

Connect your YouTube channel, add three vertical videos and schedule them, or cut them from one long recording in Studio. Every plan starts with a 7-day trial, with 10 minutes of Studio exports.