{"id":97890,"date":"2021-09-08T08:55:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T03:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.bullfrag.com\/tiktok-is-a-threat-to-youtube-short-videos-are-the-key-to-user-retention-technology\/"},"modified":"2021-09-08T08:55:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T03:25:35","slug":"tiktok-is-a-threat-to-youtube-short-videos-are-the-key-to-user-retention-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/tiktok-is-a-threat-to-youtube-short-videos-are-the-key-to-user-retention-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok is a threat to YouTube, short videos are the key to user retention | Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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YouTube has a rival that was not expected, TikTok is not only on the hunt for Instagram. The short video social network managed to surpass the Google content platform in average viewing time.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
TikTok appeared without warning and made social networks like Instagram scared for the first time. Time has passed and, it seems, that TikTok has not only managed to sow concern on social networks, but has also managed to shake the throne of YouTube for the first time in a long time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Such is the fear that YouTube released its own version of short videos to tackle TikTok. The Shorts came to try to get loyal users to short videos to change TikTok for YouTube<\/strong>, although it seems that at the moment they are not achieving the task for which they were created.<\/p>\n The situation to be more serious than you might think at first. And, is that, the BBC has presented a series of data that comes from an analysis made by the Annie application, where it can be observed that TikTok beat YouTube in average view time in June 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n And, although the data is from 2020, the growth of TikTok as a social network and as an entertainment platform has not stopped growing in recent months. Of course, despite the fact that all the alarms have gone off, Youtube<\/a> continues to gain in terms of total retention thanks to the high number of users that the platform has.<\/p>\n