YouTube Announces It Will Add ‘Watermark’ To Shorts Videos

China-based social media platform TikTok, with the short video format it contains, has revolutionized such media. On YouTube, the online video platformshorts’ It joined this short video frenzy with the feature it named, and became one of TikTok’s competitors.

Now, it has been revealed that YouTube, which has recently been revealed to sell subscriptions to platforms such as Netflix and Disney +, is working on a new feature for videos within ‘Shorts’. According to the official statements, the US-based giant platform now offers Shorts videos. watermark will start adding.

It is planned to prevent the sharing of videos on different platforms.

In a post made yesterday by YouTube about the updates, it was announced that watermarks will be added. In a statement made by a community manager of the platform, creators can download Shorts videos without watermarks. cannot share on other platforms expressed.

The explanation on the subject is as follows:Content producers, Shorts videos when you want to download to share on other platforms, you will be greeted with a watermark attached to these contents. This will enable viewers to see that shared content can be found on YouTube Shorts.” Additionally, the officials added that the watermarks will be made available for desktop in the next few weeks, and will be added to the mobile app in the coming months.

Let’s add that TikTok also has such an application. The platform supports long-downloaded videos. your logo was adding. Thus, it could be seen that the content shared on other platforms belonged to TikTok. And also ‘reels’ A statement about watermarks came from Instagram, which competes with TikTok thanks to its feature. Instagram stated that its algorithm will prevent content that carries the watermark of other platforms. However, it should be noted that the platform affiliated with Meta does not add such markings in its videos at the moment.