YouTube is set to introduce watermarks for YouTube shorts.

 

In order to make YouTube Shorts more popular, the YouTube company is currently working to add a watermark to the shorts following the TikTok service. In the coming weeks, this watermark will be added to the shorts downloaded from the desktop Studio hub service, and in the next few months, the YouTube company is working to add this watermark to the shorts downloaded from mobile.

For the past year, TikTok has dominated short-form videos. YouTube and Instagram, the other main competitors, introduced Reels and Shorts services respectively to compete with TikTok, but these have not yet been able to give TikTok a real competition. Another special thing is that the videos published on this one service are also published on other short-form services. Users also have the facility to download TikTok videos if the creator allows it.

You can always see a watermark on videos downloaded by TikTok. It is not unusual to see some viral TikTok videos with that watermark on Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. While this is good for users, competing services don't like it that much. Instagram has even developed an algorithm that identifies videos with watermarks that other platforms promote.

By adding a watermark to YouTube shorts, it is hoped that if the shorts are shared on other products, they can gain publicity for their service. YouTube seems to be paying a lot of attention to shorts, allowing creators on YouTube to create shorts using existing videos in their library and re-upload them. Despite the huge popularity of short-form videos on the Internet, many people prefer how each service operates. In particular, Instagram's home page change to show full-screen videos and photos has sparked outrage across the internet

This change was withdrawn by Instagram due to the backlash from users. Although we cannot say exactly how long this short-form video format has been around, it can become extremely popular and disappear after a while, like Vine did many years ago.