
You can also expect more creation features in the coming months. We'll continue to expand to iOS devices and in more countries soon. We also recently rolled-out a prominent new spot for the create icon on Android, starting in India. Speed controls that give you the flexibility to be creative in your performance,Īnd a timer and countdown to easily record, hands-free. The option to record with music from a large library of songs that will continue to grow, We’re starting to test just a few new tools for creators and artists with our early beta in India:Ī multi-segment camera to string multiple video clips together, Shorts is a new way to express yourself in 15 seconds or less, and our team is focused on building its foundation across three main areas:Ĭreate: Creation is at the core of short-form video, and we want to make it easy and fun to create Shorts. We’ll continue to add more features and expand to more countries in the coming months as we learn from you and listen to your feedback. This is an early version of the product, but we're releasing it now to bring you - our global community of users, creators and artists - on our journey with us as we build and improve Shorts.

Over the next few days in India, we’re launching an early beta of Shorts with a handful of new creation tools to test this out.

That’s why we’re excited to announce that we are building YouTube Shorts, a new short-form video experience right on YouTube for creators and artists who want to shoot short, catchy videos using nothing but their mobile phones. And people can be entertained and informed by bite-sized content in the spare minutes of the day.

User-generated short videos were born on YouTube starting with our first upload, a short 18-second video called “ Me at the zoo.” As technology advances, creators and artists can now take advantage of the incredible power of smartphones to easily create and publish high-quality content wherever they are in the world.
