{"podcast":{"title":"1of10 Podcast","slug":"1of10-podcast-7667156","podcast_index_feed_id":7667156,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/110bc6964/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://1of10.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/45657505/3c19fb3e59e14adb.png","author":"1of10 Media","episode_count":102,"summary":"Welcome to the 1of10 Podcast - where we interview some of the top people in the YouTube industry and learn their strategies to achieving success. Join our weekly podcast!","last_synced_at":"2026-09-02T22:23:28.504797+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1of10-podcast-7667156"},"episode":{"title":"Shorts Expert: This is How You Go Viral in 2026","slug":"shorts-expert-this-is-how-you-go-viral-in-2026","published_at":"2026-05-11T04:42:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1of10-podcast-7667156/shorts-expert-this-is-how-you-go-viral-in-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1of10-podcast-7667156","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/1of10-podcast4/episodes/Shorts-Expert-This-is-How-You-Go-Viral-in-2026-e3j6e99","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/110bc6964/podcast/play/119797481/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-11%2F423895268-44100-2-a89ea22c0f9ba.mp3","summary":"Daniel Bitton, a creator-turned-founder who grew a YouTube Shorts channel to 1 million subscribers in 6 months and went on to build multiple businesses generating $25–30 million in revenue by age 18. Daniel breaks down the exact Shorts formats that kept getting pushed, how he used outlier research to consistently find viral ideas, how he turned content into real businesses instead of just views, and the monetization systems behind Snapchat, TikTok, software, and organic media campaigns. Try 1of10 for $1 here: https://1of10.com/affiliate/podcast/ Book a call with us: https://1of10.com/strategy Get the Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/1of10com-optimization-too/gkfdnmclhbgbidnpmimfdobgjpeblckn Check out the 1of10 newsletter: https://1of10.com/newsletter Check out the 1of10 blog: https://1of10.com/blog/ Follow Us on Twitter: https://x.com/1of10media Follow me on Twitter: https://x.com/richard_YTS Guests Socials YouTube: @daniel Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danielbitton/ X: https://x.com/danvsI Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:40 Daniel’s background (1M subs at 14 years old) 01:55 Revenue vs profit explained 02:15 The Shorts strategy that hit 1M subscribers 03:22 Growing without posting for 3 months 03:41 Thumbnail generator (sponsor) 04:00 Running the channel with just two people 04:24 How Daniel cracked Snapchat monetization 05:52 $632K month at 14 years old 06:50 Why Snapchat money died 07:05 The failed long-form documentary experiment 07:50 Launching Daniel’s personal brand 08:44 Turning authority into a product (Crayo) 09:12 Crayo’s insane growth ($50K → $600K/month) 10:20 How he built a 3.5M-person email list 11:40 1of10 platform breakdown (sponsor) 12:24 Cloning viral Shorts channels (Simply How case study) 14:26 The long-form → Shorts “cheat…","meta_description":"Daniel Bitton, a creator-turned-founder who grew a YouTube Shorts channel to 1 million subscribers in 6 months and went on to build multiple businesses ge…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2349,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/1of10-podcast-7667156/episodes/shorts-expert-this-is-how-you-go-viral-in-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1of10-podcast-7667156/shorts-expert-this-is-how-you-go-viral-in-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}