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Social video

Vertical clips are how most people meet a piece of music now. This section sticks to documented specs and documented rules, because the guesswork around them wastes more time than the editing does.

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Social video

A Short over one minute with a copyright claim is blocked worldwide

The single most expensive thing you can get wrong when clipping your own music video, and it is written plainly in YouTube's own documentation.

· 9 September 2026
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Social video

A Canvas is three to eight seconds, vertical, and should not show anyone singing

The looping visual on a Spotify track has a published spec that takes ten minutes to meet and is routinely got wrong.

· 8 September 2026
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Social video

The one official route from a Short to the full video

It is called Related video, it appears under your channel handle, and it needs advanced feature access on the channel before it will show up at all.

· 3 September 2026
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Releases

YouTube Premieres, and the trailer spec nobody reads

A Premiere gives a video a public watch page, a countdown, live chat and a chat replay. The trailer that plays beforehand has its own rules, including one that trips people up on a re-release.

· 2 September 2026
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Audience

TikTok's own numbers on music discovery, read carefully

Eighty-four per cent of songs entering the Billboard Global 200 in 2024 went viral on TikTok first. That figure is real, it is also TikTok's, and the difference matters.

· 2 September 2026