I Gave AI Control & Stopped Editing Shorts By Hand For 90 Days - Our Real Growth Numbers

Ai automated shorts vs manual editing results after 90 days, we auto-posted 60 ai-cut shorts to youtube shorts, instagram reels, tiktok and facebook and tracked the real growth numbers. In this video I show exactly how contentfold handled all the clipping, titling, thumbnails and cross-posting, and then break down which short form platform actually performed best for our channel. You’ll see our full 90 day case study: 12 long form YouTube videos, 4, 6 shorts per video, all created and scheduled by ai. I walk through the view counts, followers, and subscribers we got on each platform, plus how much time I actually spent “editing” and posting once everything was automated. Then we rank the platforms from worst to best for ai-generated clips: Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels. I share the specific view ranges we saw on each, how a brand new Instagram account ended up winning on reach and followers, and how YouTube Shorts compared even though it only brought in 17% of the total views. I also open up our YouTube long form analytics from this test, including impressions, click-through rate and how our long form videos outperformed the shorts on a brand new channel. You’ll see how ContentFold currently takes a YouTube video, makes titles and thumbnails, and auto-generates short clips so you can compare this to doing everything by hand. Finally, I walk through the upgraded ContentFold split-screen controls we built because of this experiment, showing how we now handle two people on camera and b-roll in vertical format. I share how I’ll change my workflow for the next 90 days, what tiny manual tweaks I’ll still do, and the public bet I’m making on our future numbers. If you found this breakdown of our real automation data helpful, subscribe for the follow-up video in 90 days and comment with the platform you’re seeing the best short form results on. Mentioned in this video: ContentFold: https://contentfold.com Chapters: 0:00 90 Day AI Test 0:40 How Many Shorts 1:21 How Automation Works 2:01 Ranking Platforms 2:41 YouTube Shorts Results 3:22 TikTok Performance 3:42 Instagram Reels Wins 4:23 Long Form Analytics 5:23 Upgrading ContentFold 6:03 Split Screen Controls 6:43 Expected Next 90 Days 7:03 Will I Keep Automating 7:44 Free ContentFold Credits #shorts #youtubeshorts #instagramreels #tiktok #contentfold #ytautomation #videomarketing #creatoreconomy #aivideo #contentcreation