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YouTube Automation: Shorts or Long-Form Content?

4 min readMar 28, 2023

The answer is very obvious…

Last year, YouTube announced that Short monetization would become possible in 2023. I was pretty excited about it and wrote an article about it, you can read it here:

2023 New YouTube Monetization Requirements (YouTube Shorts Monetization & Copyright)

New updates to the YouTube Partner Program so more creators can make money from their content.

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I WAS excited

I’m sure you’ve all heard of YouTube shorts, the 60-second vertical video format that YouTube has introduced. Everyone was going crazy about it, and now monetization would become possible! Awesome, right?

I was very excited, because those short videos were easy to create and share. It sounded great, right? Well, it wasn’t.

FYI, in case you don’t know what YouTube Automation is, read this:

This is How to Build a Successful Cash Cow YouTube Channel

Everybody can start a YouTube channel. But will it be a successful one?

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In this article, I’ll explain 2 reasons why shorts monetization didn’t work out (at least not for me). If you…