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YouTube Shorts is the short-form section of the online video-sharing platform YouTube.
YouTube Shorts are vertical videos that have a duration of up to 180 seconds, and has various features for user interaction. Videos were limited to 60 seconds prior to September 2024. Creators earn money based on the amount of views they receive, or through Google Ads.
As of May 2024, Shorts have collectively earned over 5 trillion views since the platform was made available to the general public on July 13th, 2021, including views that pre-date the YouTube Shorts feature, a YouTube Short with a duration of 50-60 seconds gains on average 4 million views as of 2025. The increased popularity of YouTube Shorts has led to concerns about addiction for especially teenagers.
The first version of mobile version of Youtube to have full inclusion of Shorts was 16.17 released in June 2021. Version 15.00 released in around January 13 2021 and the last to have no dedicated shorts tab (15.49) have partial support where Shorts may appear in feed but has no dedicated Shorts tab (Released before Shorts began rolling out globally.) Versions 14.99 and older lack any support for Shorts.

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