Cannibalisation is inevitable for YouTube as the attention economy bites
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Blog post by
Ben Woods
When YouTube launched Shorts in 2021, the social video platform was knowingly risking de-stabilising its core business. The rationale behind launching a short-form video offer was that the risk of not...