Suggested Shorts
The #1 YouTube Shorts ideas AI tool
Looking for YouTube Shorts ideas? TubeBuddy AI Suggested Shorts is here to help.
Create killer YouTube Shorts by tapping your long-form library
Your long-form video library is a goldmine of YouTube Shorts ideas. TubeBuddy’s YouTube Suggested Shorts helps you mine it with just a click.
Suggested Shorts identifies the most engaging parts of your YouTube videos using proprietary AI and helps you turn those insights into killer YouTube Shorts ideas and videos.

Repurpose your best moments into must-watch YouTube Shorts
Do you struggle to predict what will pop on YouTube Shorts? Or perhaps you’re trying to figure out how YouTube Shorts fit into your larger YouTube content strategy? TubeBuddy's Suggested Shorts can help.
Suggested Shorts uses TubeBuddy AI to identify your most compelling content and turns it into powerful YouTube Shorts ideas and inspiration.
Clip the highest performing segments from your long-form videos or use the insights to come up with new YouTube Shorts ideas that resonate with your audience.
Optimize your Shorts for peak performance
Get expert advice to enhance your titles, descriptions, and tags, ensuring your YouTube Shorts are set up for success.
Suggested Shorts works for every type of content, in every language, and in every country where YouTube is available.
The insights TubeBuddy Suggested Shorts uses are based on your content and how viewers respond to it. In other words, these aren’t just YouTube Shorts ideas, they’re YouTube Shorts ideas tailored to your content, your channel, and your audience.

Create proven YouTube Shorts with Suggested Shorts
Here's how Suggested Shorts works
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How to access feature
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While in YouTube Studio, select Content from the menu list.
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Select the video you would like to analyze.
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Select Suggested Shorts from the TubeBuddy pullout menu.
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Sit back and relax as our AI goes to work identifying the most engaging part of your video.
Step 1
Select content from the YouTube Studio dashboard.
Step 2
Select the video you would like to analyze.
Step 3
Select Suggested Shorts from the TubeBuddy pullout menu
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Sit back and relax as our AI goes to work identifying the most engaging part of your video.
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Frequently asked questions
Use TubeBuddy’s Suggested Shorts tool to scan your long-form videos and identify high-performing segments. These clips are already engaging your audience and can be repurposed into bite-sized, impactful Shorts that drive more visibility and views.
Top ideas include trending challenges, quick tips or hacks, behind-the-scenes clips, highlights from long-form videos, and reactions to viral events. These formats are known to generate high engagement on Shorts.
TubeBuddy uses AI to analyze your videos and surface the most engaging moments. It then suggests these clips as potential Shorts, saving you time and ensuring your content aligns with what your audience already enjoys.
Repurpose key moments from your existing videos, follow trending topics, and create concise, value-packed content. Use TubeBuddy’s analytics to identify which parts of your videos perform best and transform them into standalone Shorts.
Great channel themes for Shorts include tech reviews, comedy skits, fitness routines, beauty tutorials, life hacks, unboxing videos, and educational “how-to” guides. Pick a niche you love and create consistently around it.
TubeBuddy helps you refine titles, tags, and descriptions for your Shorts. It also suggests ways to improve visibility, such as adding trending keywords and using A/B testing to experiment with thumbnails and titles.
In the TubeBuddy dashboard, under the Suggested Shorts section, you’ll find automatically generated ideas pulled from your high-engagement moments. These clips are chosen for their potential to perform well as YouTube Shorts.
TubeBuddy surfaces social media mentions and analyzes audience behavior to detect what’s currently gaining traction in your niche. You can then align your Shorts content with those trends to stay relevant and boost reach.
It reduces the time spent brainstorming, provides data-driven suggestions, helps you identify content gaps, and boosts audience engagement by turning already-proven content into high-impact Shorts.
Start by identifying your best-performing long-form videos and extracting short, engaging clips. Monitor trends in your niche, react to viral moments, and use TubeBuddy’s insights to spark fresh content ideas.
Viral Shorts usually start strong with an attention-grabbing hook, deliver value quickly, use trending formats or audio, and tap into current conversations or challenges. Keep it short, surprising, and easy to share.
Absolutely. TubeBuddy’s AI-powered tools highlight engaging video moments, monitor trends, and suggest ways to enhance them. This makes it easier to brainstorm creative, on-brand Shorts content tailored to your audience.
Choose content that has proven engagement, segments with high watch times, likes, or comments. Use TubeBuddy to analyze these metrics and turn them into short-form content your viewers are already responding to.
Channels focused on daily tips, entertaining skits, trending news reactions, product hacks, motivational quotes, or lifestyle inspiration often perform well. Their content is easy to consume and share, ideal for the Shorts format.
Follow YouTube’s trending page, monitor hashtags, and use TubeBuddy to track social mentions or top-performing Shorts in your niche. Timely reactions to trends help your content stay discoverable.
TubeBuddy offers the Suggested Shorts tool, tag and title optimization, A/B testing for thumbnails, and audience engagement tracking. These tools help refine your Shorts for better visibility and performance.
Start by picking a niche, post consistently, repurpose long-form content using TubeBuddy’s Suggested Shorts tool, and integrate trending topics. Use TubeBuddy’s performance insights to adjust and improve your strategy over time.
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