YouTube’s trying to capitalize on the recognition of Shorts by selling longer video clips inside the Shorts feed.

Which appears to contradict the entire idea, however with Shorts producing 70 billion views each day, it additionally makes some sense that YouTube can be wanting to make use of this as a way to maximise viewership throughout all content material sorts, if it may.

Which is an “if.”

As defined by YouTube:

“To attempt to assist viewers higher uncover content material throughout channels, codecs, and lengths on YouTube, we’re operating a couple of small experiments on the Watch Web page and with Shorts. In case you’re a viewer within the experiment, these new discovery experiences might embrace a mixture of video codecs together with long-form movies the place you’d often see Shorts (instance: the Shorts Feed) or new feeds of long-form movies.”

So, seemingly, YouTube is making an attempt to faucet into the recognition of Shorts to spice up broader video promotion, although it’s not solely clear how horizontally formatted long-form clips will match into the vertically aligned Shorts feed.

I assume that’s a component that YouTube has thought of and factored in, but it surely may very well be an odd expertise if movies not designed for Shorts are being displayed inside this stream.

As famous, Shorts has been an enormous winner for YouTube, driving important progress in engagement, as individuals turn out to be extra accustomed to smaller, bite-sized video clips. With this in thoughts, it is smart for YouTube to additional align its suggestions across the format, to be able to drive total viewership, and it’ll be fascinating to see how precisely that is rolled out, after which, how customers reply.

YouTube additional notes that creators may even see their long-form video clips which can be considered within the Shorts Feed measured as Shorts in YouTube Analytics.

Which may be complicated, and actually, the entire idea appears just a little unusual from a person and creator perspective.

However YouTube clearly has a plan, and it could effectively assist to spice up promotion of longer type clips.

And it might additionally, finally, result in a state of affairs the place extra YouTube viewing is completed in a full-screen, vertically-aligned feed. I presume that’s the place this check is headed, and it’ll be fascinating to see how these show experiments work in follow.