YouTube co-founder Steve Chen says he doesn’t want his kids glued to Shorts, or any short-form video platform for that matter ...

YouTube Shorts are about to get a longer playing time. The video platform’s TikTok-like short-form format will triple the maximum length of videos, boosting it from 60 seconds to 3 minutes.

TikTok popularized short, vertical video content. After seeing its success, many platforms, including YouTube, have tried to leverage the app's popularity. Now, a wave of new features makes ...

YouTube Shorts is launching in the US in beta today, offering its own spin on TikTok’s popular short video format. But the new service is still missing a lot of features compared to its competition.

As of March 31, 2025, YouTube will add a view to your YouTube Shorts view count at the moment your shortform video begins to play. There is no view time requirement anymore for a YouTube Shorts video.

YouTube is changing how it counts views on YouTube Shorts to give creators a deeper understanding of how their short-form content is performing, the company announced on Wednesday.

As part of this year’s YouTube NewFronts presentation, the company announced Monday that it’s rolling out new ad formats to its short-form feature Shorts. Of note, the company is expanding ...

Because YouTube Shorts are designed to be quick, on-the-go content, creating the videos is relatively simple. YouTube breaks it down into six easy steps: 1.