More than 1.5 billion people watch YouTube Shorts every month, Alphabet Google disclosed on Wednesday, indicating the short-video service had reached a comparable scale to rival app TikTok after launching less than two years ago.

The figures provide a window into the hotly contested battle for supremacy in the short-video format, which is now central to how most people use social media.

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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