YouTube has always been able to adapt to the dominant platform of the time throughout its 20-year life. From desktop PCs to mobile phones, (Remember how the original ...

YouTube Shorts views are added to a channel’s total watch time, but they don’t count toward meeting the platform’s monetization requirements. Views of YouTube Shorts count toward a channel’s total ...

Short videos have conquered all major social media apps (cue TikTok and Instagram Reels), and YouTube is no exception. YouTube Shorts lets content creators create short vertical videos for quick and ...

Analysts working with top YouTube channels report Shorts older than 30 days receive fewer views. YouTube hasn't confirmed any ...

After months of testing its TikTok competitor in India and a limited beta rollout in the states, YouTube is finally launching YouTube Shorts for everyone in the U.S. and the UK. So now you might be ...

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When India banned TikTok in 2020, YouTube responded by launching a short-form video feature with a similar user experience in the country. Less than a year later, that feature rolled out globally as ...

While YouTube Shorts are widely popular with the public, their biggest opponent is YouTubers. However, there are countless theories swirling around that the short-form, vertical TikTok competitor ...

One of the main features that helped make TikTok a success is now coming to YouTube's own short-form video platform YouTube Shorts. On Thursday, YouTube announced that it's beginning to roll out a ...

The shortest videos on YouTube are coming to the biggest screen in the house — in a player purpose-built for HDTVs. YouTube Shorts, first introduced in the fall of 2020, was originally developed and ...

The spooky season is well and truly upon us and while there’s nothing wrong with settling down with a scary movie, there’s a simpler way to get your horror fix, and for free too. YouTube is awash with ...

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