You can now watch YouTube Shorts on TV

Why restrict YouTube Shorts to smartphones? YouTube has announced that it’s expanding the reach of Shorts to TV with an updated app that will allow users to watch the popular vertical videos in an optimised experience. It’s obviously a challenge because YouTube Shorts are largely meant to be watched on smartphone screens.

It also proves that TikTok-style offerings are the future of video. Now that you can watch Shorts sitting on the couch, you will get more snackable content.

“Feedback showed that the joy of Shorts gets lost in the consistent video player and the Jukebox style strayed too far from the essence of Shorts, which features one video at a time.