Wish you could travel back in time and see how your favorite YouTubers looked like and what content they were putting out when they first started? You used to be able to with the click of a button, ...

Anyone doubting that shorter is better, at least in terms of how social media is evolving the past couple of years, need only look at statistics measuring the booming popularity with the briefest bits ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Short Video Addiction (SVA) is a term used by researchers, and this is separate from excessive general internet use. A 2025 report ...

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YouTube’s TikTok competitor known as YouTube Shorts is today launching a new feature, similar to TikTok’s Stitch, that will allow creators to incorporate a short video segment from another user’s ...

TikTok's grip on the short-form video market is tightening, and the world's biggest tech platforms are racing to catch up. Since launching globally in 2016, ByteDance-owned TikTok has amassed over ...

In 2025, Google’s YouTube made several major upgrades, some of which frustrated users and some of which pleased them. In a world of fierce competition, it’s hard ...

Netflix and YouTube's budding rivalry is intensifying as their businesses begin to overlap. Analyst Steven Cahall says Netflix should embrace short-form video to boost engagement. The proposal comes ...

In one of NBC's Dylan Byers podcast YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said that after introducing stories on YouTube, they have seen creators really engaging with stories. "So we will definitely continue to ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company will "sort it out" with OpenAI if it determines the Microsoft-backed startup relied on YouTube content to train an artificial intelligence model that can ...

YouTube has introduced a new timer feature allowing users to set daily viewing limits for YouTube Shorts, in a move aimed at reducing excessive consumption of short-form videos.The feature enables ...