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Brazil's Bolsonaro leaves house arrest for medical exams
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Captain Wilson scores twice as Australia stun South Africa
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Thompson eclipses Lyles and Hodgkinson makes stellar comeback
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Europeans try to stay on the board after Ukraine summit
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Richarlison stars as Spurs boss Frank seals first win
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Hurricane Erin intensifies to 'catastrophic' category 5 storm in Caribbean
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Thompson beats Lyles in first 100m head-to-head since Paris Olympics
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Brazil's Bolsonaro leaves house arrest for court-approved medical exams
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Hodgkinson in sparkling track return one year after Olympic 800m gold
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Air Canada grounds hundreds of flights over cabin crew strike
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Hurricane Erin intensifies to category 4 storm as it nears Caribbean
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Championship leader Marc Marquez wins sprint at Austrian MotoGP
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Newcastle held by 10-man Villa after Konsa sees red
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Semenyo says alleged racist abuse at Liverpool 'will stay with me forever'
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Pakistan rescuers recover bodies after monsoon rains kill over 340
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In high-stakes summit, Trump, not Putin, budges
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Pakistan rescuers recover bodies after monsoon rains kill 340
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Hurricane Erin intensifies to category 3 storm as it nears Caribbean
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Ukrainians see 'nothing' good from Trump-Putin meeting
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Pakistan rescuers recover bodies after monsoon rains kill 320
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Sabalenka and Gauff crash out in Cincinnati as Alcaraz survives to reach semis
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Trump and Putin end summit without Ukraine deal
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El Salvador to jail gang suspects without trial until 2027
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Alcaraz survives to reach Cincy semis as Rybakina topples No. 1 Sabalenka
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Trump, Putin cite progress but no Ukraine deal at summit
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Trump hails Putin summit but no specifics on Ukraine
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Trump, Putin wrap up high-stakes Ukraine talks
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El Salvador extends detention of suspected gang members
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Scotland's MacIntyre fires 64 to stay atop BMW Championship
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Colombia's Munoz fires 59 to grab LIV Golf Indy lead
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Alcaraz survives Rublev to reach Cincy semis as Rybakina topples No. 1 Sabalenka
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Trump offers warm welcome to Putin at high-stakes summit
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Semenyo racist abuse at Liverpool shocks Bournemouth captain Smith
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After repeated explosions, new test for Musk's megarocket
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Liverpool strike late to beat Bournemouth as Jota remembered in Premier League opener
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Messi expected to return for Miami against Galaxy
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YouTube Shorts touts 1.5 bn users, taking on TikTok
YouTube on Wednesday said that more than 1.5 billion people monthly tune into its Shorts video service, which competes with global sensation TikTok.
Alphabet-owned YouTube and Facebook-parent Meta both added short-form video sharing formats to their services after TikTok -- which late last year said it topped a billion users -- became the rage.
YouTube Shorts went live less than two years ago, adding videos of no longer than 60 seconds to the mix of offerings on the platform.
"Shorts has really taken off and are now being watched by over 1.5 billion logged-in users every month," said YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan.
"We know the product will continue to be an integral part of the YouTube experience moving forward."
YouTube last year launched a $100 million fund to "reward creators" whose video clips attract audiences to the online stage.
YouTube has also put the Silicon Valley tech titan's advertising skills to work helping creators generate income from content on the platform, which brought in billions of dollars in revenue in 2021.
Creators are taking advantage of podcasting, shorts, and live streaming at YouTube in a "multi-platform approach," said vice president of the Americas Tara Walpert Levy.
"This approach is yielding real results; channels uploading both short and long-form content are seeing better overall watch time and subscriber growth than those uploading only one format," Levy said.
She billed YouTube as a one-stop shop for people to "flex their creative muscles."
TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance, early this year began letting users upload slightly longer videos, raising the maximum length to 10 minutes from 3 minutes.
YouTube, Meta, and TikTok compete to be the platform of preference from popular online personalities with revenue making features such as subscriptions or shares in ad revenue.
E.Aziz--SF-PST