YouTube ‘Shorts’ will last up to 3 minutes starting October 15

The ‘shorts’, the short videos in vertical format of YouTubewill allow 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” through the extension of the duration, which will go from one minute to three as of 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 creators, it has also added templates, which recreate the style seen in a ‘short’, and At the end of this year, Veo, the generative artificial intelligence model developed by Google DeepMind, will be available

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