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TikTok is test the power for users to upload 15 - minute videos , the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday . The social media giant said the new upload limit is being tested in select regions with a limited group of users , but declined to share specifics . The novel option increase the video upload limit on the app from 10 minutes to 15 minutes .
The change was first noted by social medium consultantMatt Navarra , who carry a screenshot of a content show to user who have access to the new option . concord to the screenshot , users can upload longer videos to the platform from both the TikTok app and on background .
TikTok initially gain fame for being the most popular brusque - flesh video platform , but has tardily been embrace long - manakin content . The caller expanded itsmaximum video length to 10 minutes , up from three minutes , back in February 2022 . Before that , the limit was 60 seconds after initially expanding from 15 seconds .
The expanded TV length will give creators even more time and flexibility when divvy up thing like cooking recipe , ravisher tutorials , education content and funniness sketches . presently , if a video is longer than 10 minutes , Jehovah will send viewers to a “ Part 2 ” video . With this expanded time limit , creators may no longer have to create an intact video series when sharing content .
The change puts TikTok in even more direct competition with YouTube . The move indicate that TikTok is looking to pull longer - form video creators who commonly carry message on YouTube . In the past , TikTok was see as the platform for brusk - conformation content , while YouTube was seen as the home for prospicient - variety content . The past few years have smear the line between the two companies as TikTok embraces long video recording and YouTube adopts shorter videos with Shorts .
It ’s deserving noting that TikTok has also inched further into YouTube ’s territory with ahorizontal full screen modethat ’s being tested in select regions .
It ’s probable that not everyone will welcome the new TV time boundary . TikTok is known for poor and entertaining telecasting , so that ’s probably what the great unwashed go to the platform for , not necessarily prospicient picture . Not everyone has an appetency for long videos , which TikTok seems to be cognizant of given its recent launching of a feature that permit you tight - forward videos by hold up down the right - side of a TV .
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TikTok did not say if or when it plans to revolve out the variety to everyone .
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