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Short-form videoRepublishing an old content archive across platforms

1,800 recycled posts, 8 million views

By Jack Friks · Postbridge· Sep 27, 2026
8M
Views
1,800
Posts published
Not disclosed
Budget
Not disclosed
Duration

Jack Friks scheduled 1,800 of his own posts through Postbridge — most repurposed from content he made two years earlier — and they reached 8 million views, with Facebook Reels almost a third of them.

01The problem

Making new content for every platform is expensive; he had a large archive of old posts doing nothing.

02The hypothesis

Old content still finds new viewers when it's republished across platforms.

03The experiment

He republished his own back catalogue — mostly content made two years earlier — through Postbridge, his social media scheduler. In this snapshot that was 1,800 posts.

Facebook Reels delivered almost a third of the views, with TikTok also contributing.

04Results

MetricResult
Posts published1,800
ViewsFacebook Reels “almost 1/3”8,000,000
CustomersNot disclosed
SpendNot disclosed

“Not disclosed” means the source doesn't say. We never estimate or fill in missing numbers.

05What worked — and what didn't

What worked

  • Reusing his own archive instead of making new content
  • Facebook Reels — almost a third of all views, easy to overlook
  • Posting at volume through a scheduler
“most of these posts are repurposed from content i made 2 years ago”
— Jack Friks

06Source & evidence

  • Originally shared on X · Sep 26, 2026

    1800 of my own posts through Post Bridge: 8 million views

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Public source. Extracted from publicly available content by the founder.

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