Following nearly two years of rewarding producers with generous monetary incentives and developing features to be more like TikTok, a large number of people are watching short-form videos on YouTube. The firm stated that on YouTube’s TikTok clone, 1.5 billion monthly viewers who are signed in are watching short-form videos. As per TechCrunch, the network has roughly 2 billion logged-in users that visit it regularly as of April.

YouTube Shorts, which debuted in 2020, is the platform’s response to TikTok’s rise. Shorts have progressively found their way across the platform, including in recommendations, and the business has incorporated further TikTok-like capabilities, such as sampling. According to Google, Shorts has 30 billion views per day as of April. In a news release, YouTube adds, “This expansion has spawned a new trend on the platform: ‘the rise of the multiformat producer.”

YouTube Shorts vs TikTok

Every social media platform aspired to be the next TikTok, the wildly popular short-form video app. Even Facebook tried and failed with Lasso. So there was some clear bias when YouTube revealed the introduction of YouTube Shorts, a short video platform.

YouTube, in comparison to other platforms such as TikTok, is often thought to be a place where producers may make more money from their material because of the ad revenue-sharing programme. As Shorts grows in popularity, advertisers will be able to send more tailored advertising thanks to the database of over 1.5 billion logged-in users. In a May blog post, YouTube described the global rollout of advertising as an “exciting milestone for advertisers.”

There is a significant addition to this document. Unlike Facebook, which introduced Lasso as a standalone app, YouTube included YouTube Shorts within its existing massively popular video platform. YouTube Shorts grew swiftly because of the billions of users it had from the start. However, it appears that YouTube Shorts are no longer bolstered by their affiliation with YouTube. It appears that the creators have had some success with it. YouTube appears to be TikTok’s number one competition as well. While YouTube Shorts appears to have found out how to accomplish shortform video, TIkTok introduced longer video uploads early this year in an attempt to compete in the longform space. It’ll be interesting to see how TikTok’s latest figures compare to what YouTube has accomplished.