FORMAT FILE

Shorts: fast growth, hard landing

Shorts grow channels faster than anything else on the platform — and the Partner Program review is where that growth gets audited. "Short videos you compiled from other social media websites" is a verbatim not-allowed example, and reviewers know exactly what a reposted-Shorts catalog looks like.

Where this format gets rejected

• Reposted clips from other platforms, lightly edited — the named pattern itself.
• AI-editor assembly (auto-captions, auto-cuts) that produces interchangeable videos — the inauthentic-content pattern on top of the reused one.
• An appeal that shows the same minimal editing: documented feedback was that the appeal 'did not demonstrate enough value add editing.'

The fixes that move the score

• ✓ Make Shorts from your own footage or from long-form videos you authored — highlights of your own work carry your authorship with them.
• ✓ If you transform others' material, the transformation must be the content: your commentary, your analysis, your story.
• ✓ Remember the Shorts bar is views, not hours: 10 million in 90 days today, 20 million from February 1, 2027 — check your distance on the readiness checker.

Score your own channel free on the risk checker — eight questions, a band, and your ranked fixes with the policy lines attached.