YouTube's TikTok analogue has equaled the views of the original service

YouTube has published statistics on one of its newest sections - YouTube Shorts. It turned out that the direct

TikTok's competitor from Google's video service is very successful. Discuss

So, today the monthly numberThe service reached 1.5 billion users. It took Shorts about two years to achieve such success - the short video platform debuted in 2020.

Interestingly, this is a fairly large share oftotal number of YouTube visitors. Alphabet's latest quarterly report showed that the platform as a whole has 2 billion monthly users.

Recall that one of the latest innovations that YouTube Shorts boasts is the launch of a section with ads around the world. This happened quite recently - in May 2022.