TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts: Who Will Win the Short-Video Race?

There is no way to filter out these “shorts”. I unsubscribed from half of channels because they produce shorts every day or even more often, spamming “•‎” feature next to a channel name.

I don’t understand this. If I don’t want something I will not watch it, neither on youtube nor on tiktok. Race as much as you want, but why pushing format to a user? This is so stupid. We have a huge deal of content in exchange for our data, but we cannot sort, filter, tune feeds, create subprofiles/moods, nothing. Few guys decide what’s good for everyone, and everyone is the same all the time in their eyes. Make a separate section at least.

Re: TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts: Who Will Win the Short-Video Race?

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Post by whythre » Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 1:21 PM UTC

wruza wrote: post #4

There is no way to filter out these “shorts”. I unsubscribed from half of channels because they produce shorts every day or even more often, spamming “•‎” feature next to a channel name. I don’t understand this. If I don’t want something I will not watch it, neither on youtube nor on tiktok. Race as much as you want, but why pushing format to a user? This is so stupid. We have a huge deal of content in exchange for o…

It isn’t the first time YouTube has pushed a specific length of video, but this is more brazen than how they have operated in the past. Several years ago they changed the incentives so a video had to be at least 8-10 minutes in order to ‘play nice’ with the algorithm… which was good, in my opinion. Prior to this shift, 2-3 minute (or even shorter) soundbite videos were incredibly common. Now TikTok has YT careening back toward this old, uninformative order, pushing an even shorter format than the equivalent of a cable news blurb.