Instagram, YouTube start discouraging users from sharing videos on TikTok

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Threatened by the meteoric rise of Chinese short-form video platform TikTok, Meta-owned Instagram and Google-owned YouTube have launched new options to discourage their short-video app users from cross-platform sharing.

According to stories, when making an attempt to obtain an edited clip to an iPhone in Instagram Reels, the audio from the clip simply disappeared.

“It means if you wish to export the footage from Reels to make use of in one other app (like TikTok), you need to truly publish the Reel first with a view to save the sound,” stories The Verge.

It was doable just lately to obtain the clip with audio and use it on TikTok.

Creators can nonetheless publish the identical Reels video to TikTok however they want first to add the video to Instagram, edit it, obtain that clip and ship it over to TikTok, the report talked about late on Thursday.

On the opposite hand, when creators now make a video on YouTube Shorts, they won’t be able to obtain the video and cross-post it to different apps with no “YouTube watermark”.

“If you are a creator who downloads your Shorts from YouTube Studio to share throughout different platforms, you may now discover a watermark added to your downloaded content material,” YouTube mentioned in an replace.

“We’ve added a watermark to the Shorts you obtain so your viewers can see that the content material you are sharing throughout platforms will be discovered on YouTube Shorts,” the corporate added.

The new YouTube Shorts function is being rolled out over the subsequent few weeks on desktop, and the corporate plans to develop to cellular over the approaching months.

(Except for the headline, the remainder of this IANS article is un-edited)

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