TikTok Is Reportedly Testing 5-Minute Video Upload Lengths

Mad with energy after universally increasing the utmost video add size to a few minutes final month, TikTok is now reportedly testing out five-minute video lengths for customers who need to create even longer-form content material.

The information was first shared in a tweet by social media advisor Matt Navarra, who revealed a screenshot of a TikTok bulletin saying that customers will now have the flexibility to add longer movies.

“Upload videos up to 5 minutes long from your device. Make sure you’re using the latest version of TikTok before trying out the feature on your app or tiktok.com,” the screenshot reads.

TikTok first started testing the three-minute add instances again in December of 2020 earlier than rolling the function out universally in July 2021. According to 9to5Mac, some customers have reported the flexibility to add movies as much as 10 minutes lengthy, which seemingly implies that TikTok is testing out video limits of various lengths earlier than reaching a consensus on what works finest.

TikTok didn’t instantly reply to Gizmodo’s request for remark and we’ll replace this submit after we obtain a reply.

The video social community is finest recognized for internet hosting bite-sized, extremely sharable movies that may be consumed in extra precisely due to their brevity, so it’s anybody’s guess how longer-form content material will play amongst audiences with more and more quick consideration spans. It must be famous that the platform’s hottest movies at present focus on a viral problem the place individuals severely injure themselves by falling off stacks of milk crates, which admittedly doesn’t demand the rigor of a long-form video format.

The information of the longer video add lengths comes only a week after Navarra additionally reported that TikTok is set to deploy “TikTok Stories,” the Instagram-Snapchat-Fleets copycat function that may permit customers to submit content material that disappears after 24 hours. Although TikTok has confirmed {that a} Stories function is certainly within the works, there’s at present no set date for such a function would possibly turn out to be broadly obtainable for public use.