Should you repurpose the same content across social platforms?
Posting the same piece on several platforms versus adapting each message to each platform.
Axis: post the same content everywhere … adapt each message to each platform
Answers by date: 5 records in 4 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2023), never reversed, in these records.
| date | who | answer | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-14 | Ali | Ali is fairly platform agnostic; a plus of Shorts is that the same piece goes onto Instagram and TikTok with no extra work. | What Does My Mum Think of Me? 4M Subscriber Q&A 00:10:21 |
| 2023-03-29 (said on 2023-03-13, implied) | Ali | Since his team produces content for the YouTube channel and the podcast anyway, Ali says it may as well chop it up and post it on other platforms in a way that suits each platform. | My Goals for 2023 - Life Update 00:14:27 |
| 2023-03-29 (said on 2023-03-13, implied) | Ali | It is worth building an audience on other platforms too, Ali says, partly for diversification, since a whole business on YouTube is risky, and partly because many people spend their time on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram and rarely watch YouTube. | My Goals for 2023 - Life Update 00:14:01 |
| 2023-03-22 | Ali | Because not everyone wants long YouTube videos, Ali's team does not stay platform-specific: it works out how to say the same thing in a way native to each social platform. | Why I Have 12 Full-Time Employees (as a YouTuber) 00:08:49 |
| 2022-05-12 | Ali | Ali now thinks message first and platform second: the team's platform experts work out the best way to deliver each message on each platform. | What Am I Doing With My Life? 00:29:57 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).