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Subscribe to a YouTube Channel. Wake Up to Finished Shorts.automation

Subscribe to a YouTube Channel. Wake Up to Finished Shorts.

What if you could pick a YouTube channel and have Clipzing automatically clip every new upload, on a schedule, without you ever opening the app? That's what channel subscriptions do.

Clipzing EditorialApril 29, 20266 min
From Short Back to Long: Using Clips as a Funnel, Not a Dead Endfunnel

From Short Back to Long: Using Clips as a Funnel, Not a Dead End

Most podcasters use clips to grow follower counts. The smart ones use clips to drive viewers back to the long-form episode. Here's how to actually pull that off.

Clipzing EditorialApril 29, 20266 min
Posting to TikTok, Reels, and Shorts From One Calendar (After 4 Years on Buffer)scheduling

Posting to TikTok, Reels, and Shorts From One Calendar (After 4 Years on Buffer)

We used Buffer for four years. Then we built our own scheduler because the existing tools weren't designed for short-form video creators. Here's why one calendar beats three platform tabs.

Clipzing EditorialApril 29, 20266 min
Multi-Speaker Framing: Why Most AI Clippers Cut Off the Wrong Personpodcasting

Multi-Speaker Framing: Why Most AI Clippers Cut Off the Wrong Person

If you record interview podcasts in 16:9 and post in 9:16, every clip with two people on screen is a framing problem. Here's how the major clippers handle it, and why most of them get it wrong.

Clipzing EditorialApril 29, 20266 min
$25/Hour Editor vs AI Clipper: The Real Math on 100 Clips a Monthpricing

$25/Hour Editor vs AI Clipper: The Real Math on 100 Clips a Month

Should you hire a $25/hour video editor on Upwork or pay $50 a month for an AI clipper? We did the actual math, including the costs nobody talks about.

Clipzing EditorialApril 29, 20267 min
Brand Kit on Shorts: Keeping Captions Recognizable Across TikTok, Reels, and YouTubebranding

Brand Kit on Shorts: Keeping Captions Recognizable Across TikTok, Reels, and YouTube

If a viewer sees three of your clips on three different platforms in one week, do they know they're from you? Here's how to make sure they do, and why most clipping tools don't help.

Clipzing EditorialApril 29, 20266 min
Anatomy of a Podcast Clip That Hit 847K Viewspodcasting

Anatomy of a Podcast Clip That Hit 847K Views

We took apart a podcast clip that ran up 847K views in nine days, second by second. Here's what every podcaster should steal from it (and what most AI clippers get wrong).

Clipzing EditorialApril 29, 20266 min
I Clipped a 2-Hour Podcast and Got 47 Clips. Six Worked. Here's What They Had in Common.podcasting

I Clipped a 2-Hour Podcast and Got 47 Clips. Six Worked. Here's What They Had in Common.

We ran a 2-hour interview through the clip generator and posted all 47 clips across TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. Six broke 50K views. Here's the audit of what separated the six from the forty-one.

Clipzing EditorialApril 29, 20266 min
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