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Playbooks for faceless creators, and what's new in Shortmaker.
How to make viral videos: what actually moves the needle on short-form
Virality isn't luck — it's a set of repeatable levers: the hook, retention, shareability, and posting at volume. Here's what actually drives reach on Reels, TikTok and Shorts, and how to engineer for it.
September 24, 2026 · Shortmaker
How to be a faceless creator in 2026 (a practical playbook)
You don't need to show your face — or even talk — to build a short-form channel that grows. Here's the faceless-creator playbook: pick a niche, build a repeatable format, and post at volume without burning out.
September 17, 2026 · Shortmaker
Make ranked compilation shorts by just describing them
No timeline, no scrubbing. Point Shortmaker's AI at a reel — or a whole list of them — say what you want, and get finished, ready-to-post vertical videos back. Here's how it works, and how to put it on autopilot.
September 15, 2026 · Shortmaker
Post cards: turn a batch of videos into branded social-post shorts
Set your channel header once — avatar, name, handle — then drop in a stack of videos and export each as its own post-style short with a caption. Built for creators who post every day.
September 10, 2026 · Shortmaker
Discover: find viral videos by niche across YouTube, TikTok and Reels
Search any niche and Shortmaker surfaces the most-viewed short-form videos across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram Reels — then turn the ones you like into a compilation or post card in a couple of clicks.
September 9, 2026 · Shortmaker
Edit videos with AI agents: the Shortmaker MCP server
Shortmaker now speaks the Model Context Protocol, so Claude and any MCP client can make faceless shorts from a sentence — resolve links, build ranked compilations, and export a downloadable video without leaving the chat.
September 8, 2026 · Shortmaker