The YouTube app has added an unexpected feature - playing Shorts in landscape mode. If you want to try it, here's how to enable it.

On Tuesday, YouTube announced features that will help to optimize both the viewing and creating process for Shorts. Interestingly, most of these features are already found on TikTok and Instagram .

YouTube Shorts is making a change to address the growing issues around spam on the short-form video platform. The company says that starting on August 31st, ...

Critics of YouTube Shorts are demanding the Google-owned platform turn the short-form video feature into its own app.

The Veo 3 video generator is capable of creating both videos and sound based on text prompts, with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan saying the "AI technology will push the limits of human creativity." ...

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 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.

On YouTube’s desktop site, you can remove the YouTube Shorts section from the home page. With this method, you would not see any shorts on the YouTube homepage. Here you can learn how to do the ...

YouTube is bringing its TikTok competitor, Shorts, to its TV apps. But the company is still working on how, exactly, it should work and how short-form video interacts with the rest of YouTube.

YouTube, a TikTok rival since 2020, ... “From 3/31/2025 onward, you’ll start to see the new Shorts views metric applied wherever Shorts views are shown on YouTube.

The shortest videos on YouTube are coming to the biggest screen in the house — in a player purpose-built for HDTVs. YouTube Shorts, first introduced in the fall of 2020, was originally developed ...

YouTube notes that it will still count view time and label that under “engaged views” in the advanced creator settings. This way, users can still see which Shorts are seeing further engagement.