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YouTube Shorts Amass 1.5 Billion Monthly Users in Challenge to TikTok

By Juro Osawa
· · Source: The Wall Street Journal

Alphabet’s Google said more than 1.5 billion people are watching YouTube’s short videos every month, according to The Wall Street Journal and other news outlets. The announcement comes as YouTube’s short video feature, YouTube Shorts, is competing fiercely with TikTok, which last September said its monthly active users had surpassed 1 billion. The growth of YouTube Shorts, which was launched...

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