YouTube Shorts Emerge As Significant TikTok Rival

San Bruno, USA – January 11, 2012: YouTube Headquarters, located at 901 Cherry Avenue in San Bruno. The video-sharing site was founded in 2005 by three former employees of PayPal.

YouTube Shorts was created two years ago to rival TikTok.

YouTube Shorts now has over 1.5 billion users that log in every month.

TikTok has 1 billion monthly active users. Shorts is promoted as a way to drive audiences to the longer form content.

The Shorts are 60 seconds and have a longer watch time overall.

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