{"id":5361,"date":"2023-03-15T22:08:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T16:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2025-02-04T13:07:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T07:37:45","slug":"3-mistakes-to-avoid-while-making-youtube-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/3-mistakes-to-avoid-while-making-youtube-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Mistakes to Avoid While Making Youtube Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beauty of being a YouTuber is that you get to have creative freedom to the highest extent. The onus of promoting your content, coming up with the title, the niche and literally everything else lies on you. But this also means that there are a dozen ways you can make a blunder. Be it choosing the wrong title, going after the wrong audience demographic, not using the right keywords and so on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us take a look at the top 3 mistakes you should avoid while making YouTube Shorts.<\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h6><strong>Not working on video quality<\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5368\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/15215714\/JHGmM-300x183.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/15215714\/JHGmM-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/15215714\/JHGmM.png 666w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A low quality video may come off as unappealing as well as unprofessional and the viewer may lose interest in exploring more of your content.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/TisL3inCuFg?feature=share\">Here\u2019s<\/a> an example of a good quality YouTube Short.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h6><strong>Fitting in too much information\u00a0<\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5367\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/15215712\/too-much-info-overload.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Viewers surf through Shorts when they don\u2019t have the patience or interest in watching a long duration video. Therefore, keep the information short and crisp. Alternatively, you can use multiple smaller videos, increase their speed slightly and chain them together for one Short.\u00a0 Take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/Ztr5CmEJSYc?feature=share\">this beauty hack YouTube Short<\/a>.<\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h6><strong>Not making a custom thumbnail<\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5382\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/15215912\/Screenshot-96-1-169x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/15215912\/Screenshot-96-1-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/15215912\/Screenshot-96-1.png 454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creators generally focus on creating custom thumbnails for their longer duration videos but neglect the Shorts. It is always good to customise your thumbnail as per your content. It may include a short title of your video or a list of the main bullet points.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/11\/all-you-need-to-know-about-creating-the-perfect-thumbnail\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> everything you need to know about creating the perfect thumbnail.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5366\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/15215709\/bu8fJbS-300x146.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/15215709\/bu8fJbS-300x146.gif 300w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/15215709\/bu8fJbS.gif 412w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maintaining a YouTube channel is basically making mistakes and figuring out how to go about things. Whether you have one subscriber or one million, you are bound to make the wrong decisions sometimes. It is all about avoiding some and learning for some.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Interested in getting your YouTube channel seen by a huge audience? Get started here:\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/\"><i>www.flintzy.com<\/i><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beauty of being a YouTuber is that you get to have creative freedom to the highest extent. 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