YouTube advises focusing on your audience, not the algorithm. A view indicates intentional watching, not just scrolling past a video. Prioritize storytelling over targeting a specific video length.

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. Shorts views will ...

YouTube Shorts are short-form videos with a maximum length of 60 seconds on the popular YouTube platform, specifically designed for mobile viewing. They were introduced to compete with similar short ...

Google is bringing its Lens search capabilities to YouTube Shorts, which will simplify web search for videos that do not include affiliate content or links. This addition will not only help buyers to ...

CPM, which measures revenue earned for every 1,000 impressions, won't apply to YouTube Shorts monetization as it does to long-form videos. YouTube Shorts uses a pool-based model where earnings ...

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Merging short-form and long-form YouTube is how Shorts wins, but doing it without complicating and wrecking the ...

Ever since TikTok launched in 2016, video consumption on smartphones and tablets just changed. People were endlessly scrolling through vertical videos on their devices, watching comedy videos, skits, ...

I have no idea how to write code, but with a little help from generative AI, I built a JavaScript bookmarklet tool that dramatically improves YouTube Shorts—and you can, too! From the laptops on your ...

Whether we like it or not, short-form content has become a part of the social media experience. Just over a decade ago, Vine got many of us hooked on watching videos that lasted for less than 10 ...