TikTok vs. Instagram Reels vs. YouTube Shorts: Who Will Win the Short-Video Race? | WSJ 

I would argue that you could not even sit down and enjoy a book. Which is not a bad thing as your generation was faster then the previous generation and didn't had enough free time to read books to relief stress. Similarly that is the case for this newer generation as well.

It’s 90 mins 100 different ideas and relatable content VS 90 mins 1 long story maybe awesome or total waste of time. Just preference no need to feel superior. Plus TikTok gives grass root content makers opportunities to share their ideas without needing to be rich and owning all the fancy equipment.

I see reels on Instagram, RU-vid and FB and I have found myself spending wayyy too much time

Some of them can't see a 10 min YT video because it's too long.

I agree. I think tiktok and short feed are destroying people’s attention span and will prob get banned in a few years’ time

Me too, even RU-vid is not too valuable nowadays, downloaded it onto my iPad 10 minutes ago and it’s getting deleted in a few, I didn’t miss it when it wasn’t on the tablet. Just keep it for music when I want to play something that’s not on Apple Music or Spotify.

How old were you?

Enjoy life my friend

Nobody cares

@@littledudefromacrossthestr5755 Clearly, because if everybody cared about how I used social media.... that would be weird..... Not every contribution to a conversation needs to have 100% consensus to be said....

True.

YES I worked at a club house and you could tell how the younger employees looked more sad empty compared to the younger ones.

You are already depressed kevnev

Ur still in yt shorts cuz that's built into youtube

@@Codex8171 I noticed that man, sometimes when I open RU-vid it starts on shorts, I just slid to the right 😂

@@henry62600 ya ikr

You're literally commenting this on RU-vid though

@@cbjueueiwyru7472 not shorts bro

Thanks to capitalism. Engineers need money to compete for housing and ad tech platforms pay way more and generally have great work environments. Realistically most work at NASA is slow and bureaucratic; young engineers would rather work for SpaceX.

same…

@@dragonblade4125 not with tiktok ?

Also the shortening of attention spans which leads to worse academic performance.

Yhup already losing. It sucks you in and is hard to get out. It's like a drug.

Yes. The only one that will win are big corpos while attention span/retention will shorten thanks to short video platforms. Also mental health will deteriorate.

Yeah yourube shorts are addicting asf

Exactly

TikTok video with Instastory layout

litterally, Reels and shirts are so late to trends

Man instagram has been failing recently.

I wish, but each app is afraid of the other app stealing their userbase, and subsequently ad revenue, that they’re trying to knock each other down to hold on to as many users as possible.

But in India reels took tik tok place

Not really, if you watch what WSJ are saying,RU-vid shorts have gained so much momentum after their 2021 launch. It’s actually not hard to catch up, it’s just algorithm. Aside from that, RU-vid has a huge professional communities, not like tiktok. For long videos, RU-vid is the king!

@@kennykwok Much of that momentum came from India banning Tiktok. Momentum =/= good, additive content that keeps you swiping. Most of what I see in RU-vid Shorts are either reposted Tiktok videos, or RU-vidrs trying their hand (and generally failing) at making shorts. RU-vid shorts just suck generally. I mean have a look at Linus Tech Tips making shorts. They're nothing but cringe.

@@Avantime yea then go back tiktok and watch videos. P.S, I see a lot of old RU-vid videos circulating on tiktok as well!

@@kennykwok There's a reason why Tiktok is a top downloaded app with more than a billion active users even with the India ban, and why RU-vid and Instagram are shamelessly copying Tiktok, and in Instagram's case literally shoving short videos into the app against the will of big name celebrity influencers like Kylie Jenner. Bytedance is very, very good at what they do with Tiktok and Douyin. They're easily the best in the world. And there are very few RU-vid videos in Tiktok because why? Tiktok uses vertical videos, which the RU-vid community has always gone against for many, many years because RU-vid previously didn't show vertical videos correctly. And one final thing: When Kylie announced that she left Snapchat, the company lost $1 billion in valuation. We'll see if she decides to leave Instagram next.

@@kennykwok true my tiktok is basically reposting of old RU-vid videos

LOOOOL

@@ndongengone7284 Why Lol? The guy has it right. These apps aren't doing society any good.

You mean Vine

@@OAMnez Haha!! Point well made … the race is still running, and it won’t really end until all competitors are crushed/give up and join a different race …

Can’t say the same about stories and snapchat. As soon as other platforms adopted the story format snapchat became redundant. Of course, TikTok ain’t no Snapchat, but the point is that reels and shorts are attempting to slow TikTok’s growth as much as possible by absorbing what makes TikTok unique in the first place. We’ll see how successful or unsuccessful these attempts are in the near future.

Shorts has the most substance/actual quality content to draw upon already, and being added all the time … it may take a while/long time even, but substance always wins out in the end …

But TikTok got banned in India and India is a HUGE market. Over a billion people and eventually will be the most populated country in the world. The reason why Reels and Shorts are catching up is because of the Indian market. After being the most addicted country to TikTok, the users looked for an alternative and Reels and Shorts came to the rescue.

Lol, there’s no “best thing”. What’s next? Another cancer app made for brain dead people with low self esteem and phone addictions, who deny they’re and lie to themselves there’s any worth in using those apps. Some people enjoy posting on instagram but those are rare nowadays.

Next? Books! 😁

Exactly. When you copy you are a step behind

NFT’s are the next big thing.

Purplenotes

No plus the app is losing users now.

Fr

It is. They are lagged behind Tiktok for 3 years 💀

@@fx_gamer8478 the RU-vid shorts timeline is still stuck in 2020 😹

TikTok had short reposts of YT vids tho, and in defense of YT shorts, many of the shorts on there are higher quality and are edited to the same extent as a regular YT video. And the fact that there are lots of tiktok reposts makes it better, as it makes downloading a separate app (TikTok) more useless.

@@maric7558 I ain’t reading allat‼️ 🗣🗣💯💯

I can say the same, now tiktok is releasing videos from RU-vid 10 years ago!

🥰🥰🥰🥰yes

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Yet YT Shorts surpassed it in monthly active users already?

Yeah tiktok pretty much won the only reason why tiktok waited years to grow this much is because it used to not have a large audience unlike Google who owns RU-vid that explains why shorts grew so fast in a matter of 2 or 3 years youtube has a chance to win but the others are far behind

I don't know you. obviously. but I, a random internet stranger, watch yt shorts

Bruh

A lot of them are. And saying you "can't follow the trend" is stupid. Doing trends that like for 3 days is stupid. Most of these trends will be forgotten and most of them are cringe. I'm sorry that not everyone wants to do cringey stuff, but that doesn't mean they can't do it. I'm sure a lot of people can do the stupid bs they do on there. Wanna know why they don't? Don't like to repeat myself, but cause its stupid. And not worth doing.