Nine AI clip generators are worth your attention in October 2026: Opus Clip, Vizard, Klap, Choppity, Wisecut, Submagic, Descript, VEED’s AI Clip Generator, and Kapwing. They are not variations on one product: they split into three families that behave completely differently, and the cheapest-looking option is frequently not the cheapest one. Every price below was read off that vendor’s own pricing page on 16 October 2026.
The decision that matters first: what is your source footage?
Before comparing features, you need to know whether these tools can read your footage at all. Almost all of them are transcript-first, which means they work well on podcasts, webinars, interviews and talking-head tutorials, and work poorly on anything visual.
A transcript-based clip detector transcribes your audio, then uses the words as a proxy for meaning. That design choice explains most of what you will and will not like about these tools. Opus Clip says ClipAnything uses visual, audio and sentiment cues; Klap says its algorithm “relies heavily on speech detection”; Vizard says it transcribes and cuts out speakers. Two people in a dim room and all three are guessing.
The one genuinely different model is Kapwing, which is prompt-driven rather than score-driven: you tell it what you want (“find key moments”, “remove filler words”) and it assembles a draft.
Comparing prices and clipping claims
Prices and features are from vendor pricing pages, help centres and documentation checked on 16 October 2026. Currency and billing terms are stated where available. Accuracy claims are vendor-reported; the nine tools were not tested on identical footage.
What “clip detection” actually means under the hood
Clip detection is not one thing. It is four techniques, and the tools mix them differently.
Transcript-based moment detection
The workhorse. Transcribe, then score candidate segments on whether they contain a complete thought: a setup, a payoff, a conclusion. Opus Clip’s virality score is built this way, and it is the only tool here that publishes the components. From OpusClip’s help documentation:
Hook: does the introduction grab attention and directly relate to the main topic? Flow: does the video flow logically from one part to the next, with a satisfying conclusion? Value: does the video offer value, resonate emotionally, and create a personal connection? Trend: is the video aligned with current trends and audience interests?
Hook, Flow and Value are computable from the transcript. Trend is the odd one out, and the one that decays fastest.
Speaker tracking, shot changes and unscoreed highlights
Turning 16:9 into 9:16 means deciding, frame by frame, which part of the picture matters. Most tools track the active speaker’s face and pan a virtual crop to hold them in the safe zone. VEED says it will “recenter the speaker in the frame with one click”; Klap cites facial recognition; Opus Clip sells “moving object tracking” plus a genre-specific reframing model from the Starter tier up. Expect it to work on a locked-off single speaker, and to drift on handheld two-shots.
Shot-boundary detection is older and better at the mechanical job, including cut points where nobody is speaking. Choppity names “scene detection” explicitly as something its AI Analysis Hours pay for, and Kapwing’s “Find Scenes” uses the same idea as a manual-resizing aid.
Other tools skip scoring entirely: Wisecut surfaces moments that stand on their own, and VEED asks you to pick a goal: “viral short”, “highlights” or “insights”. You are the relevance function.
The nine tools, sorted by what they are actually for
Score-based detectors rank moments and show you a number: Opus Clip, Submagic, Klap, Choppity. Prompt-driven editors do what you describe: Kapwing, and to a degree Descript’s Underlord. Full editors with clipping attached treat the clip as an entry point to a bigger timeline: Descript, VEED, Captions, Submagic, Wisecut.
| Tool | Detection family | Entry paid price | Billing unit | What that unit is | Free watermark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opus Clip | Score (0–99: Hook/Flow/Value/Trend) | Starter $15/mo, Pro $29/mo | Credit | 1 per minute of source; Starter 150/mo, Pro 300/mo | Yes |
| Vizard | Score + highlight selection | Creator $14.50/mo annual, $29 monthly | Credit | 1 credit = 1 minute; Creator 600/mo | Yes |
| Klap | Score, facial framing | Basic $14/mo, Pro $39/mo, Pro+ $94/mo | Clip | Finished clips per month: 100 / 300 / 1000, annual billing | Trial only |
| Choppity | Scene detection + clip scoring | Starter $13.30/mo annual ($19 monthly), Pro from $20.30/mo annual ($29 monthly) | AI Analysis Hour | Upload, transcription, scene detection, clip scoring; 3 hrs / 5 hrs base to 100 | Yes; free tier cannot download |
| Wisecut | Highlight detection | Starter+ $33/mo, Professional+ $118/mo | Credit | 300 = 5h Editor + 2.5h Autopilot; 1,200 = 20h + 10h | No |
| Submagic | Score (“high virality score”) | Starter $19/mo ($12 annual), Pro $39 ($23), Business $69 ($41) | Video | 45 credits = 15 videos; 120 = 40; 300 = 100 | No on paid |
| Descript | Prompt + editor | Hobbyist $24/mo ($16 annual), Creator $35 ($24), Business $65 ($50) | Media hour + AI credit | 10 hrs + 400 AI credits; 30 hrs + 800; 40 hrs + 1,500 | Yes on Free |
| VEED | Goal-selected, not scored | Creator / Pro / Studio (page served INR to me) | AI credit | Creator 6,000 credits ≈ 1,500 AI videos; Pro 30,000; Studio 180,000 | Yes |
| Kapwing | Prompt-driven, no score | Pro $16/mo, Business $50/mo | Credit | 1,000 credits ≈ 1,000 minutes of auto-subtitling; Business 4,000 | Yes |
Opus Clip: the only tool that publishes its own formula
Opus Clip is the reference implementation, and the reason is documentation, not raw quality. The virality score runs 0–99, is composed of Hook, Flow, Value and Trend, and is available on Starter and Pro only. Its API is different again: a scoring endpoint on a 0–100 scale with documented thresholds per content type, trained on what the company calls hundreds of thousands of (clip, performance) pairs.
One credit per minute of source video means a 60-minute episode burns 60 credits: five episodes a month on Pro, two and a half on Starter. Free exports are watermarked, capped at 1080p and expire after three days; Pro adds 1:1 and 16:9, 100 GB storage, up to four brand templates, and the Video Editing API, Scheduler API, MCP connector and Zapier.
Vizard: the economics winner, on paper
One credit equals one minute of video; Creator gives 600 credits a month for $14.50 billed annually ($174/year) or $29 monthly: roughly $1.45 per hour of source footage against Opus Clip Pro’s $5.80. Vizard also publishes API rate limits on the pricing page, which almost nobody does: 1 request per minute and 10 per hour on Free, 3/min and 20/hour on Creator, 10/min and 60/hour on Business. The catch: no published virality score. No scale, no threshold, no calibration.
Klap: cheapest per finished clip, and the number is inflated
Klap’s Basic plan is $14 a month for 100 clips, Pro $39 for 300, Pro+ $94 for 1,000, all billed annually: $0.14, $0.13 and $0.094 per clip. Read Klap’s own FAQ before you believe it: “our rule of thumb: a one-minute long video produces about 5 video clips”, so a 60-minute episode nominally yields 300. You will not post 300 clips from an hour. One discrepancy worth knowing: the homepage FAQ says “upgrade to Klap Pro for just $29/month” while the pricing page lists $39/month billed annually.
Choppity: built for volume, with the clearest unit definition
Choppity is the only tool here whose help centre defines exactly what you buy. “AI Analysis Hours” power upload, AI transcription, scene detection and clip scoring, and the docs are explicit that storage and analysis are separate.
Starter is $13.30/month annual ($19 monthly) for 3 hours; Pro starts at $20.30/month annual ($29 monthly) with 5 hours base and a slider up to 100 hours, 100 GB and up to two team members. Paid plans export to 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 across 97 languages. If you run a multi-account operation, that slider is the feature that matters.
Wisecut: the only genuinely watermark-free free tier
Wisecut’s free plan is the outlier: no watermark, 30 minutes a month, 480p, exports capped at three minutes. Paid, one credit pool funds two products. Starter+ is $33/month for 300 credits, which their pricing page defines as 5 hours of Editor plus 2.5 hours of Autopilot (so Autopilot burns credits at roughly twice the Editor rate) giving 1080p up to 60 minutes per export plus social scheduling. Professional+ is $118/month for 1,200 credits, 4K up to 90 minutes per export, and up to three accounts per social network.
The differentiator is Autopilot: connect a channel and new videos get clipped and published without you opening the app: the best automation here, and the one that most directly creates the “AI mass-produces my channel” problem below.
Submagic: strongest captions, weakest fit for long source
Magic Clips describes the workflow as: upload, “Artificial intelligence identifies key moments with high virality score and generates multiple clips”, then customise. No scale, threshold or calibration is published.
Pricing is per finished video: Starter $19/month ($12 annual) for 45 credits, described as 15 videos at a 2-minute cap each; Pro $39/month ($23 annual) for 40 videos at 5 minutes; Business $69/month ($41 annual) for 100 videos at 30 minutes, 1080p 4K at 60 fps. That 2-minute Starter cap is the dealbreaker for podcast repurposing. Vendor claims include 123 languages and “99% caption accuracy”: treat the accuracy figure as marketing until you test your own audio.
Descript, VEED and Kapwing: editors with clipping attached
The table above carries their pricing. What matters here is that all three treat the clip as an entry point rather than a product.
Descript’s Underlord AI “picks your most viral-worthy moments”, but all three plans meter you on media hours and AI credits, so the double meter makes forecasting harder than a single credit pool would.
VEED is structurally different. You upload a video longer than two minutes with spoken audio (both hard requirements per their documentation) then pick a goal (“viral short”, “highlights”, “insights”) plus a clip length. On price, the regional page displayed Indian rupees on 16 October 2026. Check your local price before comparing it with US-dollar plans.
Kapwing does not score moments and does not claim to; its Automatic Video Editor analyses the transcript, detects speech and extracts the moments matching your prompt.
And what about Munch and Captions?
Munch has left the category. getmunch.com now serves Munch Studio, an AI social-media agency that learns from your website, builds a content strategy and plans a calendar. Repurposing survives as a line item (500 minutes a month on Essential, 1,000 on Premium) but it is one feature inside a broader product. If a listicle tells you Munch is a clip generator, that listicle is stale.
Captions is primarily a phone-first AI editor with an AI twin and avatars. Its pricing page lists Max at $24.99/month for 500 credits and Frontier at $69.99/month for 1,400 credits, with an explicit note that the page reflects iOS plans only.
Does the viral score predict performance? The reality check
It ranks well inside a video and predicts poorly across videos. Here is who publishes what.
| Tool | Score published? | Scale | Stated components | Plans |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opus Clip (in-app) | Yes | 0–99 | Hook, Flow, Value, Trend | Starter and Pro only |
| Opus Clip (API) | Yes | 0–100 | Documented thresholds per content type | Free trial and Pro |
| Submagic | Mentions a “high virality score” | Not published | Not published | All |
| Klap | “score their potential to go viral” | Not published | Not published | All |
| Choppity | “clip scoring” inside analysis hours | Not published | Not published | Paid |
| Vizard | No score published | ( | ) | : |
| Wisecut | Highlight selection only | ( | ) | All |
| VEED | Goal selection, not a score | ( | ) | All |
| Kapwing | No score | ( | ) | : |
| Munch Studio | No score | ( | ) | All |
OpusClip documents what goes into its score. Its developer guide also explains the limits:
“Trusting the score in isolation. A score is a prediction. Some 60-scored clips outperform 85-scored ones because of timing, accompanying caption, or platform context. Treat scores as ranking, not approval.”
The same guide publishes a vendor-reported calibration (70 or higher predicts above-median performance roughly 75% of the time on talking-head content) and advises lowering your threshold by 10 to 15 points for non-talking-head content. That is OpusClip measuring its own model, with no independent benchmark cited here.
The practical read: Hook, Flow and Value are computable from text, so the score reliably finds complete, self-contained thoughts. Trend is the component most likely to be stale, and nothing in the model knows about your caption, thumbnail, posting time or account history. OpusClip’s own pattern is to surface around 20 candidates per episode and let a human pick 5 to 8.
What it actually costs: a normalised per-minute comparison
Vendor pages are written to be incomparable. Here is the same pricing converted to cost per hour of source video, plus the per-clip figure where the vendor actually sells by clip. USD, checked 16 October 2026.
| Tool and plan | Monthly price | Billing basis | Source minutes/month | Cost per hour of source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vizard Creator | $14.50 | Annual ($174/yr) | 600 min | ≈ $1.45/hr |
| Choppity Starter | $13.30 | Annual ($19 monthly) | 180 min | ≈ $4.43/hr |
| Munch Studio Essential | $38 | Annual ($456/yr) | 500 min | ≈ $4.56/hr |
| Opus Clip Pro | $29 | Monthly | 300 min | ≈ $5.80/hr |
| Opus Clip Starter | $15 | Monthly | 150 min | ≈ $6.00/hr |
| Wisecut Starter+ | $33 | Monthly | 300 credits (5h Editor + 2.5h Autopilot) | ≈ $6.60/hr of Editor time |
| Tool and plan | Monthly price | Clips/month | Cost per clip |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klap Pro+ | $94 (annual) | 1,000 | $0.094 |
| Klap Pro | $39 (annual) | 300 | $0.13 |
| Klap Basic | $14 (annual) | 100 | $0.14 |
| Submagic Business | $69 ($41 annual) | 100 | $0.69 |
| Submagic Pro | $39 ($23 annual) | 40 | $0.98 |
| Submagic Starter | $19 ($12 annual) | 15 | $1.27 |
Read those two tables together and the trap becomes obvious. Klap’s $0.13 per clip is not cheaper than Opus Clip’s $5.80 per hour because Klap is more efficient: it is cheaper because Klap is selling you a cheap candidate, and a candidate is not a publishable clip.
Worked example. A weekly 60-minute podcast, 10 finished clips a month. On Opus Clip Pro at $29, each episode costs 60 credits, so 300 credits buys five episodes, and ten published clips means roughly half your candidates ship. On Vizard Creator at $14.50 annual, 600 credits covers ten episodes exactly, but there is no score to sort by, so that labour moves onto you. On Klap Pro at $39 annual, 300 clips nominally covers one episode in a single pass, but you are spending $39 to avoid a $29 subscription; Klap only wins if you clip several sources a week.
Buy by the minute if editor hours are the bottleneck, by the clip if volume across accounts is, by the model if decision quality is.
Platform specs for Reels and Shorts in 2026
The table uses platform documentation. TikTok’s current official specifications remain unconfirmed here, so its limits are omitted.
Instagram Reels, from Meta’s official Ads Guide: MP4 or MOV, ratio 9:16, H.264 compression, square pixels, fixed frame rate, progressive scan, stereo AAC at 128 kbps or better, recommended resolution 1440 × 2560 pixels, maximum file size 4 GB, and for Reels ads a duration range of 0 seconds to 15 minutes.
The most actionable line is the safe-zone guidance: leave at least 14% of the top, 35% of the bottom, and 6% on each side free of text, logos or other important creative elements. That bottom-heavy margin exists because the caption and audio controls sit there, so a hook title dropped in the lower third gets covered by the UI. Reels ads should also not contain licensed music, GIFs, product tags, or media with a face or camera effect applied.
YouTube Shorts, from Google Help: up to three minutes for uploads on or after 15 October 2024 on standard channels, and on or after 8 December 2025 on Official Artist Channels. Square or vertical aspect ratio. Shorts Audio Library music is generally usable for up to 90 seconds in a three-minute Short, though some tracks are limited to 60 or 30 seconds.
The rule that will actually hurt you, verbatim: any Short over one minute in duration with an active copyright claim of any type, including manual claims, will be blocked globally on YouTube. Not playable, not recommended, not eligible for monetization.
The workflow I would actually run
- Pick one source format and stay there. Sixty-minute talking-head is where every tool in this list performs best.
- Run two tools on the same episode before you commit. Upload one to Opus Clip and one to Vizard and compare candidates yourself for ten minutes. Nobody has published a cross-tool accuracy benchmark, so your ten minutes is the best evidence available.
- Use the score to sort, never to ship. Take the top 10 by score and pick 4 to 6. OpusClip’s own guidance implies a 25–40% hit rate is normal.
- Reframe manually when the shot is hard. Auto-reframe handles a locked-off single speaker. With two people or a moving subject, check the crop.
- Export 9:16 at 1080p or higher, and keep clips under 60 seconds by default. YouTube’s claim block and Meta’s safe-zone percentages are hard constraints no tool respects for you.
- Re-caption and re-hook in the editor before posting. The generated hook title is a starting point, and this is what turns a machine cut into original content under YouTube’s monetisation rules.
- Log every clip and its performance for 60 to 90 days, then revisit. OpusClip’s developer guide recommends exactly this recalibration window.
What breaks: failure modes worth knowing before you buy
Silent over-detection. Most of these tools produce far more clips than you will post; Klap’s own rule of thumb implies 300 candidates from an hour. Without a human in the loop you will post template slices: exactly what YouTube’s inauthentic-content policy names.
Wrong unit for your content type. Submagic’s Starter plan caps videos at two minutes each, making it useless for a 45-minute interview regardless of price. Check the per-item duration cap, not the credit count.
Free tiers that cannot complete the job. Choppity’s free tier cannot download or schedule. Wisecut’s has no watermark but caps at 480p and three-minute exports. Vizard’s exports 720p with three-day storage. Opus Clip’s watermarks and expires exports after three days.
Reframe failure on multi-speaker footage. Expect 10 to 15 minutes of hand-fixing per clip, which changes your effective cost per clip materially.
Geo-localised pricing. VEED’s page served me Indian rupees. Budget from your own checkout page, not a third-party article.
Geo-localised pricing. VEED’s page served me Indian rupees. If you are budgeting from a third-party article rather than your own checkout page, check it first.
Copyright, monetisation and the rules that will bite you
This is the section most clip-generator comparisons skip, and the one most likely to cost you a channel.
YouTube’s inauthentic-content policy. On 15 July 2025 YouTube renamed its “repetitious content” policy to “inauthentic content”, clarifying that it covers repetitive and mass-produced content. The updated page lists as not eligible for monetisation: “AI-generated content made with generic or unoriginal templates giving the impression of mass production without adding the creator’s original, authentic insights or perspective.” That describes an unattended clip-generator pipeline.
The reused-content policy is channel-wide. YouTube states that if reviewers cannot tell that you made the content, monetization may be removed from your entire channel, and that it applies “even if you have permission from the original creator”. Clipping a show, a podcast you do not own, or a conference panel into template fragments is the exact shape this targets. What is explicitly allowed is narrower than people think: content that primarily features the uploading creator, and footage with effects demonstrating substantive editing. A talking-head clip of you explaining your point sits inside. A captioned 45-second pull quote with nothing added does not.
The monetisation bar is getting higher. From 1 February 2027, a channel needs at least 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days to be eligible for a share of Shorts ad and YouTube Premium revenue for a given month. Creators keep 45% of their allocated revenue.
This is general copyright information. If you are clipping third-party content commercially, have a copyright attorney review your pipeline.
The bottom line
If you want the most transparent model in the category and have the editor hours to use it, Opus Clip at $29/month is the default. Its virality score is the only one you can audit, its API is documented with real SDKs, and its credit unit is honest enough to forecast. Budget 300 source minutes a month and accept that free exports are watermarked.
If your constraint is cost per minute of footage, Vizard at $14.50/month annual is four times cheaper than Opus Clip Pro per hour of source. You lose the score, so plan on sorting candidates yourself.
If you run several channels or client accounts, Klap’s per-clip pricing at $0.09 to $0.14 wins on paper: read the FAQ about five clips per minute of video first. If you need dozens of hours of analysis capacity, Choppity’s slider up to 100 AI Analysis Hours is the most honest capacity model here.
If you are already inside Descript, VEED or Kapwing, do not switch. Buy the clipping inside the editor you use and spend the saved migration time on what moves views: the hook, the caption, the choice of moment.
And whatever you buy, keep your default clip length under sixty seconds, keep your face or your commentary in the frame, and post ten clips a week you would defend as original rather than two hundred you would not.
FAQ
What is the best AI clip generator in 2026?
It depends on content and volume, and I would push back on any single-answer listicle, vendor-written ones included. Opus Clip is the most transparent about its scoring model; Vizard wins on cost per minute of source video; Klap is cheapest per finished clip but generates far more candidates than you will publish. Anyone claiming one winner is selling something.
How much does AI clipping really cost per month?
It depends on the billing unit, which is why per-clip and per-minute figures look so different. Normalised to cost per hour of source footage on 16 October 2026: Vizard Creator about $1.45/hour, Choppity Starter about $4.43/hour, Munch Studio Essential about $4.56/hour, Opus Clip Pro about $5.80/hour, Wisecut Starter+ about $6.60/hour. Where the vendor sells by finished clip instead, Klap runs $0.09 to $0.14 and Submagic $0.69 to $1.27.
Does the Opus Clip virality score actually work?
Use it to rank clips within one video, not to forecast reach. OpusClip’s own developer guide says some 60-scored clips outperform 85-scored ones because of timing, caption or platform context. The company publishes its own calibration (70 or above predicting above-median performance about 75% of the time on talking-head content) but that is vendor-reported, without an independent benchmark cited here.
How do these tools decide which moments are clips?
Mostly from your words. Opus Clip says ClipAnything uses visual, audio and sentiment cues; Klap says it relies heavily on speech detection and facial recognition for framing; Vizard transcribes then cuts out speakers; Choppity names upload, transcription, scene detection and clip scoring as what its analysis hours buy. All of them work best on spoken content and struggle with visual-only footage.
Which AI clip generator has no watermark on the free tier?
Wisecut, and it is close to alone. Their pricing page lists the Free plan with no watermark, 30 minutes a month, 480p and exports capped at three minutes. Opus Clip watermarks free exports and caps them at 1080p with a three-day expiry. Choppity’s free tier cannot download at all.
Can AI-generated shorts be monetised on YouTube?
Sometimes, and only with deliberate framing. YouTube renamed its “repetitious content” policy to “inauthentic content” in July 2025 and explicitly lists AI content built from generic or unoriginal templates that give the impression of mass production as not eligible. What is permitted includes content that primarily features the uploading creator and footage with substantive original editing. A captioned pull quote with nothing added is not, and the reused-content policy can affect your whole channel.
What is the maximum YouTube Shorts length, and is there a catch?
Three minutes, for videos uploaded on or after 15 October 2024 on standard channels. The catch is copyright, and it is severe: any Short over one minute with an active copyright claim of any type will be blocked globally, will not be playable or recommended, and is not eligible for monetisation. If your source is licensed content, plan for sub-60-second clips only.
Do any AI clip generators offer an API for automation?
Several, with materially different maturity. OpusClip publishes an OpenAPI endpoint with SDKs for Node, Python, Go, PHP, Ruby and Java, plus a scheduler API, an MCP connector and Zapier. Submagic publishes rate limits with export operations capped at 50 requests per hour. Vizard offers an n8n workflow template and per-plan rate limits on its pricing page. That export ceiling is what will bite you when batching.
Why isn’t Munch in the list anymore?
Because it stopped being a clip generator. getmunch.com now redirects to Munch Studio, an AI social-media agency that learns from your website, builds a content strategy and plans a calendar. Repurposing survives as a line item (500 minutes a month on Essential, 1,000 on Premium) but as one capability inside a broader product.
Sources
All URLs below were fetched and read on 16 October 2026.
Vendor pricing and product documentation
- https://www.opus.pro/pricing
- https://help.opus.pro/docs/article/virality-score
- https://help.opus.pro/docs/article/how-are-credits-consumed
- https://help.opus.pro/
- https://www.opus.pro/blog/viral-moment-detection-api
- https://www.opus.pro/api
- https://vizard.ai/pricing
- https://vizard.ai/ai-clip-generator
- https://vizard.ai/api
- https://help.vizard.ai/
- https://klap.app/pricing
- https://klap.app/
- https://docs.klap.app/
- https://choppity.com/pricing
- https://help.choppity.com/articles/7110470-plans-and-pricing-explained
- https://wisecut.ai/pricing
- https://www.wisecut.video/
- https://help.wisecut.video/
- https://www.submagic.co/pricing
- https://www.submagic.co/features/magic-clips
- https://docs.submagic.co/
- https://www.descript.com/pricing
- https://help.descript.com/
- https://www.veed.io/pricing
- https://www.veed.io/tools/auto-video-editor/ai-video-clip-generator
- https://support.veed.io/en/articles/11579825-how-to-use-ai-video-generator
- https://www.kapwing.com/pricing
- https://www.kapwing.com/tools/smart-cut
- https://captions.ai/pricing
- https://captions.ai/
- https://www.munchstudio.com/pricing
- https://www.munchstudio.com/
Platform policy and specifications
- https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15424877 (three-minute Shorts eligibility and the over-one-minute copyright-claim block)
- https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12504220 (Shorts monetisation policies, including the 1 February 2027 10-million-view threshold)
- https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1311392 (channel monetisation policies, including the July 2025 “inauthentic content” rename and the reused-content policy)
- https://www.facebook.com/business/ads-guide/update/video/instagram-reels (Instagram Reels ad specifications and safe-zone guidance)
Competitive landscape
- https://www.submagic.co/blog/best-viral-clip-generators (vendor-written “5 Best AI Viral Clip Generators” listicle, cited as an example of the category’s existing coverage)
