How to make YouTube Shorts and TikToks from your Kick streams

Short vertical clips are how new people find a streamer, and one good stream can give you a week of them. The work is finding the moments and framing them for a phone.

1. Pull your replay while Kick still has it

Kick only keeps replays for a limited time, and fewer of them on channels that aren't verified. Grab the stream, or the moments you want, within a few days of going offline.

2. Pick moments that work without context

A Short has to make sense to someone who has never seen you before. Good picks:

• A reaction people can see on your face.
• A play or a fail that is clear in the first two seconds.
• A line from you, or from someone in voice, that lands on its own.

Start your list with the clips your viewers made. Anyone watching on Kick can clip, and those clips point straight at the moments that landed live.

3. Frame it for a phone

Your stream is wide and a phone is tall. There are three common ways to fit it:

• Crop in on the action and lose the edges.
• Stack your webcam on top of the game. This is the most common look for streamers, because people come for you as much as for the game.
• Show it all, with the full frame in the middle and space above and below.

4. Keep it short and add captions

YouTube Shorts can run up to 3 minutes, but most good clips are under a minute. Start on the action, not the lead up to it. Add captions, because a lot of people watch with the sound off.

5. Post on a schedule

One or two clips a day beats ten in one afternoon. Write a title that says what happens, and add a few tags for your game.

The faster way

POVSync does this from your Kick stream. Sign in with Kick and pick a stream, and your viewers' clips come first as vertical Shorts, with your webcam over the game if you want it. Titles and post captions are written for you, and posts go out on your schedule once you approve them. Turn on Autopilot and every new stream is cut overnight.