[17:40 Wed,7.July 2021 by Thomas Richter] |
Until now, a maximum of 60-second videos could be uploaded to the video portal
![]() If TikTok continues to follow this path - TikTok even started with a limitation of 15 second clips, but this was soon extended to 60 seconds - the first Chinese social media service to be used globally could become even more of a competitor to YouTube than it already is. While the content of TikTok initially consisted mostly of the typical karaoke and playback singing videos, so-called TikToks, cooking and beauty tutorials are now also increasingly being posted, which are difficult to fit into the 1-minute corset and can also be found in a similar way on YouTube. After all, the success of TikTok, especially with the valuable young audience, has worried the competition YouTube and Facebok enough to launch similar formats in the form of YouTube shorts or, soon, short videos on Instagram. TikTok started out as the successor to the music video portal musical.ly and adopted its special form of video creation: at the beginning of a newly recorded video on a smartphone, the user selects a popular music track from TikTok&s large sound library, to which the user then produces his or her own recording with matching vocals, dance or acting. This can then be modified using numerous special effects, augmented reality effects and filters. Through reactions to other videos and video quotes, this has become a lively video-based social network for the younger generation. ![]() deutsche Version dieser Seite: Videos jetzt bis zu 3 Minuten lang: Wird TikTok zur YouTube Konkurrenz? |
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