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Series Architect: split a long video into a series, or plan one from scratch
YouTube rewards session time, and a planned series keeps viewers watching far longer than standalone videos. Create a series with an arc, episode promises, open loops and cliffhangers, and map the end-screen routing so each episode leads to the next.
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Create or split
Create Series plans one from a theme: the arc summary, each episode's promise and open loop, the routing map, the playlist order. Split a long video into a series takes an existing long video and cuts it into episodes with the same mechanics.
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Why it works this way
A series is planned as a whole, with the routing from each episode to the next written before the first is published, because the binge is what the algorithm rewards.