From new upload to posted clips: Katto now follows your channel and keeps a posting queue

Most people who clip a channel do the same three things every week: wait for the new episode, paste the link into Katto, then schedule the clips one by one. The first and the last steps don't need a person. Two features shipped this week take them off your plate.

Followed channels

Paste a YouTube channel link or @handle on the Followed channels page. From then on, Katto checks the channel about every 15 minutes, and each new video it finds is clipped exactly as if you had pasted the link yourself.

• Only new videos. Videos published before you followed the channel are left alone. Katto never goes back through the archive.
• Shorts and lives are skipped. Anything under 60 seconds is ignored, and a live stream or a premiere waits until it has finished.
• A length cap per channel. You can skip videos longer than 15, 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes, within your plan's limit, so a 3-hour stream doesn't eat your allowance.
• Same allowance as a link. Each new video clipped uses 1 video of your monthly allowance. When it runs out, nothing starts, and the video is picked up once your allowance is back.

You can follow up to 5 channels, on any paid plan. Agencies use it for client channels; creators use it for their own.

The posting queue

On the Posting queue page, you set your slots once: days of the week, up to 12 times a day, a timezone, and the platforms to post to. After that, approving a clip is the only step left. It goes into the next free slot on each platform you picked, and publishes at that time.

A slot that already holds a post on the same platform is skipped, whether that post came from the queue or from the calendar. Slots follow your local time, so a 6 pm slot is still at 6 pm after the clocks change. On TikTok, posts go out as private for now, while TikTok's audit of the app is pending.

The queue is part of the Creator plan, like the rest of scheduling.

Put together

A new episode goes up on your channel. Within about a quarter of an hour Katto has started cutting it. When the clips are ready, you open the results, approve the ones you'd post, and close the tab. They go out over the next days at the times you chose.

Nothing is posted that you haven't approved. That part stays with you on purpose: Katto ranks the clips, but you know your audience better than any score.

How we checked it

Before writing this, we followed a busy news channel from a test account on the live service and watched it. A video published at 09:04 was picked up automatically, and its clips were ready 14 minutes later, with no manual step. Katto checks followed channels every 15 minutes. The slot calculation was tested separately, including a change of daylight saving time. If something doesn't behave the way this post says, tell us; we read every reply.

Both features are live in your dashboard. The followed channels and posting queue page has screenshots and the details.