Scientists know very little about how TikTok and its copycats affect human cognition, but the signs aren’t good.

TikTok's dominance has helped it top Sensor Tower's list of most downloaded social apps in the U.S. last year. If short-form video is the future of social media, TikTok is months, if not years, ahead ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Short Video Addiction (SVA) is a term used by researchers, and this is separate from excessive general internet use. A 2025 report ...

TikTok's grip on the short-form video market is tightening, and the world's biggest tech platforms are racing to catch up. Since launching globally in 2016, ByteDance-owned TikTok has amassed over ...

Prime Video is adding on-demand local and national news clips as Amazon joins other streamers experimenting with short-form video to capture younger viewers.

Google, Meta and ByteDance are in a battle for supremacy in the short-video format. WSJ's Miles Kruppa breaks down how each company is doing and shares insight into which platform might come out on ...

The timing is advantageous for YouTube, which is making it very clear creators can still use songs that are no longer on TikTok. The timing is advantageous for YouTube, which is making it very clear ...

YouTube is now extending the duration of its Shorts vertical video format to a new maximum duration of three (3) minutes per upload, as opposed to its previous time limit of 60 seconds or one minute.