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TikTok goes full YouTube


TikTok feels very different.

Creators who’ve been on TikTok for more than three months will be eligible for the viewership boost, as long as the videos are not ads or from political parties. Most YouTube videos tend to be 10 minutes or longer (think of “a week in the life” vlogs) for monetization reasons rather than the bite-sized-length content for which TikTok is famous. Its new paywall program, Series, lets users make collections of videos, up to 20 minutes long, for paying subscribers.

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