Short-form clips of long interviews and shows are taking over the internet. But behind the sea of social media clips are marketplaces offering freelance clippers money per view.

Consuming constant clips made me feel stupider and lonelier. Thank God I’m old enough to remember a world before A clip from Before Sunrise. A woman joking that she won’t date men with flat heads ...

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks with the business writer Ed Elson about the rise of the “clip economy”—the idea that short video clips pulled from podcasts, livestreams, and ...

LOS ANGELES, California, April 21 (Reuters) - In the battle for viewers, Paramount Skydance (PSKY.O), opens new tab is targeting the smallest of screens - mobile phones. A version of the Paramount+ ...

OpenAI said it's closing Sora, the short-form video app that went viral after its launch six months ago. "We're saying goodbye to Sora," the company said in a post on X. "To everyone who created with ...

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.

How A.I.-Generated Videos Are Distorting Your Child’s YouTube Feed Experts caution that low-quality, A.I.-generated videos on YouTube geared toward children often feature conflicting information, lack ...

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 ...

YouTube will now let parents limit the amount of time their teens can spend scrolling through its short-form video feature, Shorts, or block them all together. The option is part of a group of new ...

In 2025, Google’s YouTube made several major upgrades, some of which frustrated users and some of which pleased them. In a world of fierce competition, it’s hard ...

YouTube just unlisted all of its old YouTube Rewind videos. But, why? Credit: Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images YouTube Rewind may have ended back in 2019, but it seems like YouTube ...