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YouTube Shorts is happening.
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YouTube is entering the short form video craze. In a blog post, the Google-owned video platform detailed its new format, which it calls Shorts. The new feature will rival the Chinese app TikTok and Instagram Reels.
Designed as a “new short-form video experience straight to YouTube for creators and artists who want to shoot short, catchy videos” with their phones, shorts will be limited to a maximum of 15 seconds per clip. TikTok allows 60-second videos, while Instagram reels also have a 15-second maximum.
As with TikTok or Reels, music can be added to clips, and YouTube provides tools for editing multiple video clips together, as well as speed controls, timer, and countdown options for hands-free recording.
As with TikTok, swiping vertically from a Shorts video will allow you to jump to a new one.
Read also: Instagram Reels Tutorial: How to Use the TikTok Competitor
The new format will be available on Android phones in India “over the next few days,” and YouTube’s Chris Jaffe noted in the blog post that the company “will continue to expand to iOS devices and more countries soon.”
YouTube news comes as Oracle confirmed it would Become TikTok’s US Tech Partner. after pressure from the Trump administration for the app, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, to find a home in America.
