Why? My impetus was to use the video in a Google AdMob House Campaign. When you post a vertical video to YouTube, it becomes a short.

Take this Swipe2delete video for example.

However, when you paste that Video URL into the Edit Campaign screen, you get an error “Enter a valid YouTube video url”.


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But it is a YouTube URL I hear you say! Well, apparently not, but we can make it so with a simple trick:

Replace shorts/ with watch?v=

Eg, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lSJdcsAXMTo becomes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSJdcsAXMTo.

Presto!



Here is an teeny tiny form to do it for you: