Peaks: turn stream moments into Shorts

Where peaks come from

Signal	What it measures
Your live viewers	Viewer counts recorded every minute while you are live. Peaks are where viewers surged.
YouTube Most Replayed	The parts of a YouTube video people replay most.
Twitch chat activity	Bursts of chat during a Twitch stream.

Live viewer data starts once your channel is saved in Settings > My Channels. Streams from before that have no live viewer data.

Find peaks in a VOD

1. Open Peaks and pick a source: YouTube, Twitch, or Kick.
2. Choose Fetch VODs. For Kick, choose Find peaks (CCV).
3. Narrow the list with When (default: last 7 days), Min duration (default: 180 seconds), and Max duration. Sort by recent or popular.
4. On a VOD, choose Find peaks. You get up to 8 peaks of about 45 seconds each.
5. Use Open at peak to watch the moment in context.

Turn a peak into a Short

• Create Short job starts a YouTube Short that waits for your review. You land on the job page so you can follow it.
• Build preview lets you check the clip before you start a job.
• Custom in Jobs opens the full job builder for other formats.
• Stage to library saves a peak for later. You upload the MP4 trim for it. Unused staged clips clear Sunday night, Eastern Time.

Already cut the moment yourself? Use Upload a trim (MP4, MOV, WebM, or MKV).

What it uses

• Finding peaks counts toward your plan's monthly VOD hours. Studio includes up to 40 VOD hours a month. Agency has unlimited VOD hours.
• Create Short has no extra charge. It is part of your monthly plan.

See Plans and billing to compare plans.