Let me see what I can pull together Andy. Off the back of the reverse engineering I’ve done already, I coded a “AWS Video Site Builder” which takes a few inputs and builds an entire static HTML website on an AWS subdomain (it loads super fast!). I added the home page to Omega indexer and within 2 days I had 75% of the subdomain indexed in Google.
While I didn’t dislodge the spammed ‘video’ results from the video block, I did occupy every tile in the ‘shorts video block’ which was often appearing at the bottom of page 1 … and if you click the ‘Show more’ button my AWS ‘video’ pages were occupying 70% plus of all the shorts videos listed. Pretty crazy!
So I think it might actually work on a search query where there is not so much video competition but as usual time has got the better of me and I haven’t pursued the project for 3 weeks or so now.
Although, the latest Google spam update appears to have nuked all the spammy ‘video’ pages for that query now … lol … but I’m still seeing some of my AWS subdomain in the regular organic results 
SEO is a constant game of cat and mouse!
Will do