Word is… Shorts fed 2,100 subs into long-form

Word is… Shorts fed 2,100 subs into long-form
A tech reviewer pinned a Short that teased a 14-minute deep-dive and linked it in the description. Over 60 days the Short did 800K views and funneled 2,100 subscribers straight onto the long video, which then over-indexed in suggested. The leak: Shorts subs are cheap but flaky — pairing each one to a long-form anchor converts a drive-by view into watch-time YouTube actually values. Bridge the two formats or burn the audience. Watching this.