All new videos uploaded to YouTube are now automatically transcoded into WebM, a video format based around the VP8 codec, intended for use with HTML5 video. Backed by Google, Mozilla, and Opera ...

YouTube is launching a new short-form video format that seems an awful lot like TikTok. YouTube “Shorts” are 15-second videos shot on mobile phones.

Why YouTube Short-Form Videos Pose Threats to Long Videos The reported discussions within YouTube about the risk of long-form videos “dying out” as a format.