Share another creator's video on YouTube without re-uploading it

If you want your audience to see another creator's video, share it as a post instead of re-uploading it as a Short. YouTube's help page says you can add a video to a post by searching for it, pasting its URL or picking one from your own channel, and that a notification may be sent to the original uploader. The viewer then watches the original upload on the original channel (read 2026-10-03).

That is the route YouTube's creator liaison pointed to in the October 1 announcement about original Shorts, according to Search Engine Journal's write-up (read 2026-10-03). I could not retrieve the announcement video itself, so treat the Posts tab pointer as reported, not as a quote from YouTube's help center. The help page I did read describes the share mechanics; it does not say the Posts tab is an approved substitute for a re-upload.

Sume does not publish to YouTube or create posts, so this page is mostly about the decision. Where Sume helps is the other half: a Short that carries your own take, cut from footage you own.

What the post share does and does not do

A shared video in a post stays a link to the source. Nothing is copied into your channel, so there is no clip for a recommendation system to judge as a lightly edited copy. That is also the limit: a post is not a Short, it does not play in the Shorts feed, and you add nothing to the video itself.

The Posts tab has its own gates. The help page notes a per-24-hour cap on how many posts a channel can create, and it points to separate Posts tab eligibility rules that I did not see spelled out on that page. Check your own Studio before building a plan around it.

When you want more than a link

A link says nothing about why the video matters. If you have a point of view, the allowed examples on the monetization page are the ones to read closely: reaction videos where you comment on the original, critical reviews that use clips, and edited footage where you add a storyline and commentary (read 2026-10-03). The common thread is your own voice and your own material doing the work.

A practical version: publish the post share for the original, then make a separate Short that stands without it. The Short opens on you, your screen or your own footage, makes one claim in the first seconds, and only then touches the source. Whether a short quoted clip is acceptable under copyright is a separate question that neither YouTube's monetization page nor Sume answers.

Building the Short from your own footage

Sume works on files in your workspace's media storage, not on someone else's video. If you filmed the commentary yourself, video trim cuts a [start, end) range out of one hosted clip into a new MP4 for $0.02 per job, with precision: exact as the default frame-accurate re-encode. Video captions burns captions onto a finished clip at $0.20 for clips up to 60 seconds under the current fixed estimate; confirm live pricing in the catalog.

Both are job-based: submit, then poll GET /v1/jobs/:id/status and read /result, as described in jobs and results. Neither tool judges originality. They shorten and caption what you give them.

What nobody has promised

Search Engine Journal reports that YouTube gave no start date, no timescale for re-evaluating reach and no dashboard that shows whether a channel's reach was cut (read 2026-10-03). The update is described as affecting recommendations only; monetization stays under the existing reused-content policy.

So there is no way to know in advance that a post share or a commentary Short earns more reach. Sume does not guarantee reach, views or monetization on any platform. What you can control is the shape of what you publish: a link when you have nothing to add, a Short when you do.

• Use the post share when your only contribution would be re-posting.
• Make a Short when you can say something in your own voice from your own footage.
• Keep copyright and monetization as separate questions from recommendations.