TikTok to roll out option to create longer videos of up to three minutes

TikTok, owned by China’s Bytedance Inc., mentioned on Thursday it would introduce an possibility over the following few weeks to let customers on its platform create movies of as much as three minutes. The app, which permits customers to file brief mobile-friendly movies that may last as long as 60 seconds and add particular results in addition to soundtracks pulled from a music library, has change into wildly standard with youngsters lately.

“Over the approaching weeks, we’ll be rolling out the choice to create longer movies to everybody on TikTok, giving our world group the flexibleness to movie, add and edit movies as much as three minutes in size straight inside TikTok,” the social media firm mentioned in a weblog submit.

The success of TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, has additionally prompted many social media firms so as to add short-video companies to their platforms, with Facebook Inc.’s Instagram launching short-video clips, often called Reels, in addition to Snap Inc.’s Snapchat rolling out “Highlight” final November.