YouTube launches TikTok competitor “Shorts” — News alert

YouTube is rolling out a new short-form video called Shorts, a rival of sorts of popular video platform TikTok. YouTube will test Shorts in India over the next few days, & then expand to more countries.

YouTube officially launches its own TikTok competitor, Shorts — TheNextWeb

TikTok is really the popular kid in social media these days, as evidenced by the massive American tech companies fighting over who gets to buy a cut of it. Others, like Instagram, have instead try to copy the format, and now YouTube has joined the fray.
YouTube today officially announced…

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Alphabet’s YouTube to launch TikTok-like product — Reuters

(Reuters) — Alphabet Inc’s YouTube is rolling out its version of social media rival TikTok, a new short-form video service called Shorts, enabled within its video-sharing platform.

Link: Alphabet’s YouTube to launch TikTok-like product

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Originally published at https://www.whatsnewonthenet.com on September 15, 2020.