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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).