As short-form video begins to dominate global viewing habits, a new monetization playbook is emerging — one driven by watch time, scalable content formats and increasingly, AI-generated storytelling.

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When Quibi launched in 2020 with $1.75 billion in funding and Hollywood pedigree, it promised to reinvent television for smartphones—and shut down within months. Its strategy was to slice ...

Google is adding short-form videos to the Play Store. These bite-sized shorts are videos of the apps you’re scrolling through. They are meant to help with app discovery and to show how the app works.

A YouTube cofounder who helped pave the way for our modern, content-obsessed world has come out against short-form videos because of their effect on kids. Steve Chen, who served as YouTube’s chief ...

The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum has launched One Minute Wonders, a new series of short-form videos designed to make postal history engaging and accessible for all audiences. Each one-minute ...

Most articles don’t make good videos. The ones that do share qualities that translate naturally to 60-second formats. Identifying them before you commit production resources saves more time than any ...

Latin American downloads of the top 20 short-drama apps have increased by roughly 402% year-on-year in 2025, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. That's on top of a 4,300% year-on-year ...

Short-form videos have become one of the dominant ways young people engage with social media. These are clips lasting seconds up to a few minutes, driven by personalized algorithms that are deeply ...

Paramount+ is planning a move into short-form video, leaked documents reveal. Paramount CEO David Ellison has consistently talked about a tech-forward vision of the company. Disney and Netflix are ...

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