YouTube is confronting TikTok with YouTube Shorts, a short video platform that first introduced in India, where China’s video sharing platform has been banned since last June, sparking a wave of local and foreign actors vying to take over its space. . .
The new platform will allow users to download videos of 15 seconds or less, a set of features that largely mimic TikTok, adding a multi-segment camera, speed controls, a timer and a countdown function, the company, which is owned by Alphabet, Google’s matrix. , he said in a blog post.
Currently, the feature is available in the YouTube app on Android devices and the company has announced that it will soon be available on iOS and other countries.
Last month, Facebook introduced its own competitor TikTok, Instagram Reels, to an incrutinent reception from critics and commentators: the company has not yet revealed the platform’s user statistics.
India banned TikTok and many other Chinese-owned smartphone apps in June following tensions between the military and Asian neighbors.
While local players like Chingari, Roposo, Mitron have tried to fill the void, Maximum has struggled to retain users after an initial explosion of popularity following TikTok’s ban.
YouTube has also leveraged TikTok users’ knowledge of Google Android operating formula phones to accelerate its deployment plans in India, The Information reported.
Last month, Triller, an American rival of TikTok, said he had submitted an offer to win TikTok’s U. S. operations. However, TikTok rejected this statement: “We are and will be in talks with them. “Days after the release of an executive order forcing ByteDance to sell its U. S. operations, President Donald Trump opened a verified account in Triller, where he now has more than 950,000 subscribers.
When banned in June, TikTok had more than two hundred million users in India, making it the platform’s largest market. Local TikTok clones such as Chingari, Roposo, Mitron saw an increase in interest after the ban, but none could adjust to TikTok. Although the maximum programs might have mimicked TikTok’s user interface, they still have to decipher the set of tip rules that helped the application succeed. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Peking University: one of the main problems of the planned sale of TikTok to the resolution of China last month to limit the sale of AI. set of rules like that used through TikTok.
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