YouTube shorts may last 3 minutes starting October 15

Los ‘shorts’ YouTube’s short vertical videos, will support a duration of up to three minutes starting October 15, a change with which the company seeks to facilitate the “creation and connection process”, and which is accompanied by resources such as templates and the Veo video generator.

YouTube has announced some changes and new features in ‘shorts’ that will help make the narrative more immersive” by extending the duration, which will go from one minute to three starting October 15.

In principle, this change will only affect videos created after that date with a square aspect ratio, as the company has clarified on its official blog.

For the creators he has also added templates, which recreate the style seen in a ‘short’, and at the end of this year they will have available Veo, the generative artificial intelligence model developed by Google DeepMind

YouTube has also redesigned the player, so that “creators’ content takes center stage,” and introduced a new ‘Trends’ page on mobile. Developers will also soon be able to access YouTube content directly from the shorts camera to use in their remixes.