News & Reviews:   short video

Are you a TikTok enjoyer? Do you visit Instagram just to watch Reels? If that's you, here is news that may interest you. Although nothing has been confirmed, there's a possibility that Instagram Reels could become a separate app.

Social media is all about short videos nowadays, thanks to TikTok. With that said, other platforms like YouTube and Instagram had also quickly jumped on the bandwagon with YouTube Shorts and Reels respectively. Now, it seems like Twitter will be the latest to join the gang by rolling out a feature that offers an "ever-scrolling feed of video content".

Many people love to watch videos online, and short-form video is probably the most popular format these days. Besides the highly popular TikTok, YouTube Shorts has also gained a substantial userbase of about 1.5 billion users. As such, it makes sense to add a new feature to help make Shorts.

To celebrate this year's National Camera Day, Canon has organized the National Camera Day Video Contest to award those capable of telling great stories through creative short videos. The contest starts today and lasts until 24 June 2022, continue reading to find out the steps to participate in it if you're interested.

For most people, social media has become the preferred method. As an example, Malaysians love to share stuff on Facebook every day. But now, Meta wants people to directly share to Facebook Reels.

TikTok is now following the subscription trend by bringing one to its platform. After Instagram announced early testing of paid subscriptions, the popular short video app has also been discovered doing limited testing for a feature that will allow creators to charge their fans for exclusive content.

As you know, a lot of our fellow Malaysians love social media platforms. One of the more popular ones has to be TikTok, as it contains lots of short but quirky videos. Some people lament that these videos don't have high resolution, but that could change soon.

In recent months, YouTube and Instagram have released their own short video services. It's clear that the formula is popular, but some people do want slightly longer videos. As such, TikTok has decided to expand in the opposite direction.

Social media apps are constantly competing for attention and sometimes imitating popular features is the path taken. That's quite obvious when you see the different platforms coming out with short-form video features to compete with TikTok. In fact, Snapchat is now a part of that gang.

Short videos have become familiar popular with the younger crowd in recent times, something that can be attributed to the existence of TikTok. Which is why it's not surprising to see that companies wanting to compete in that space. Just earlier this month, YouTube that it was releasing a new feature called Shorts and now Kuaishou Technology has launched Snack Video to compete.