Case study: stock b-roll vs AI b-roll on the same script A 'productivity tips' channel needed b-roll. We built 10 Shorts twice: once with free Pexels clips, once with Runway-generated AI b-roll. Resul…
Case study: VidIQ-driven titles added 40% Shorts-feed reach A travel creator titled Shorts as captions ('Bali sunset'). We used VidIQ's Shorts keyword tool to retitle 25 with searched phrases ('cheape…
Case study: rewriting the first 3 seconds doubled completion A fitness creator's Shorts opened with a slow 'Hey guys, so today...'. We didn't change the content — only the first 3 seconds, using a pat…
Case study: AI voiceover vs my own voice — retention test A faceless 'history facts' channel suspected its robotic TTS was hurting watch time. We re-voiced 20 Shorts in ElevenLabs (a warm narrator voi…
Case study: cropping the face tighter raised Shorts CTR-ish 9% Shorts don't have classic thumbnails, but the first frame is your thumbnail in feed and on the channel grid. A gaming creator's grid fram…
Case study: 1 podcast, 18 Shorts, 240k views from Opus Clip A B2B podcaster fed one 52-min episode into Opus Clip. It auto-cut 18 vertical clips, scored them, and we posted the 9 highest-scored. 30 da…
