A YouTube Shorts ad for your product, set to its own song

To make a YouTube Shorts ad with a song, paste your product page into SingingAds. It writes and sings a 15, 30 or 60 second jingle about that product and cuts a vertical 1080 x 1920 video to it with captions. YouTube says Shorts can be up to three minutes long, so every length SingingAds makes fits with room to spare.

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From product page to Short

Your part is a link. Ours is the jingle, sung, and a vertical cut that follows it shot by shot. What lands in your downloads is an MP4 Short and the track by itself, and nothing in the lyrics comes from anywhere but your page: you see and edit every claim before a single note is made.

YouTube's help page describes Shorts as vertical videos up to three minutes, uploaded at up to 1080p. The SingingAds file is 1080 x 1920, inside that limit.

Shorts loop, so write for the second play

A Short starts again the moment it ends. That changes how the jingle should be built:

  • Make the last line lead into the first. If the song ends on a question the opening line answers, the loop feels like a chorus instead of a restart.
  • Put one detail in the background that people only notice on the second view, like the product's color variant in a later shot.
  • Keep the name in the chorus, not the opening. On a loop, the chorus is what plays most often.

You can change any shot's words and redraw a frame after seeing the storyboard, so a loop that almost works can be fixed without starting over.

Which length works on Shorts

  • 15 seconds loops cleanly and suits one-idea products: a scrubber, a phone grip, a snack.
  • 30 seconds fits problem, product and offer, and still loops without fatigue.
  • 60 seconds works for explainer products where the song walks through three uses; watch retention in YouTube Studio before you put money behind it.

Use the song beyond the Short

The jingle downloads as its own audio file, and the rights cover ads, social media, websites, radio and podcasts. That makes the same 15 seconds useful as the intro of a longer product video, a sign-off on a podcast sponsor read, or the sound on a landing page. Using one hook everywhere is how a small brand builds a sound people recognize. Every song carries Google's SynthID watermark, an inaudible mark that identifies AI-generated audio.

What to check before it goes live

  1. Turn on YouTube's AI disclosure when you upload. YouTube asks for it on realistic AI content, which includes the cinematic, UGC and studio looks; for the animated looks we recommend labelling anyway.
  2. Listen for the brand name on a phone speaker, not only headphones.
  3. Make sure the end card address matches the link in your description.
  4. Have one honest answer ready for the comment "is this AI?": yes, an AI-made song and video about a real product.

Hooks that hold in the Shorts feed

The Shorts feed moves fast, and the first sung line decides the swipe. Three hook shapes that suit a product song: a question the buyer has asked themselves ("burnt egg stuck, what now?"), a number from your page ("four inches higher"), or a before-and-after told in words, not bodies. Pick from the three openers the brief gives you, and if none fits, rewrite them before the song is made. You can hear how finished hooks land in our example ads, and the same brief works for TikTok product ads if you post in both places. The full flow is on how it works.

Illustrative example: a 15-second loop for an invented shop

Shop: Pan Rescue Kitchen Goods (made up). Product: the Gritwise chainmail scrubber for cast iron.

Buyer: a home cook who inherited a cast iron pan and is scared of ruining it. Moment: burnt egg on the pan after breakfast.

Claims from the page: stainless steel rings, no soap needed, fits in one hand.

Lyrics, 15 seconds, written to loop: Burnt egg stuck, what now? / Gritwise rings, here's how / no soap, one hand, rinse and dry / so what's for breakfast? (loops to "Burnt egg stuck").

Look: 3D animation, so the steel rings catch the light in the close-up.

What it can't do

  • It does not upload to YouTube or set up a Google Ads campaign.
  • It makes vertical 9:16 video only, not a 16:9 version for regular YouTube ads.
  • There is no talking presenter or lip-sync; the song carries the words.

What it costs

From $15 for one ad, or $29 a month for about 4 thirty-second video ads. A jingle take costs 4 credits; a typical 30-second video ad about 26. There is no free tier and no free sample.

One-time packs

One ad

$15 once

40 credits, about 1 thirty-second video ad

Five ads

$59 once

180 credits, about 6 thirty-second video ads

Monthly plans

Starter

$29 a month

120 credits a month, about 4 thirty-second video ads

Growth

$79 a month

400 credits a month, about 15 thirty-second video ads

Agency

$199 a month

1100 credits a month, about 42 thirty-second video ads

Full pricing, credits and refunds

Questions

Can I run the Short as a paid ad?

The MP4 is yours to use in ads. Campaign setup happens in your Google Ads account, so check the current video requirements there when you upload.

Is 60 seconds too long for a Short?

Not by YouTube's limit, which is three minutes. Whether it holds viewers is a creative question; most product Shorts do better at 15 or 30.

Can I post it as a normal Short and also promote it?

Yes. Organic posting and ads are both covered by the rights, for your own business or a client's.

What if one line of the song sits on the wrong picture?

Change that shot's words or redraw its frame, then rebuild the video. There is one shot per sung line, so fixes stay local.

Can the Short be in Spanish or German?

Yes. Jingles can be written and sung in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and Italian; English has had the most testing.

Sources

  1. YouTube Help, Get started creating YouTube Shorts, read 17 Oct 2026