Being able to extract audio from other users’ videos is one of TikTok’s biggest advantages. It allows the extracted audio to spread across the platform, allowing users to discover new content by watching videos with the same sound. Soon, YouTube will expand this feature in its TikTok competitor Shorts, allowing users to sample sounds from any content uploaded to YouTube.
YouTube officially announced this feature in a community support post last month as a new feature launched by Shorts in the UK, Canada and some Latin American countries. Then, this YouTube sampling tool will be rolled out to other Shorts markets, including the United States, in the next few weeks.
Shorts users can already sample sounds from other Shorts videos (and authorized music libraries). But this update will greatly expand the audio they can easily get. This feature will introduce audio from other YouTube videos into its Shorts through a new Create button in the mobile app.
This button will appear below the video next to the like and dislike buttons. Click it, the user can choose to sample the audio of the video in Shorts. Shorts viewers can also click on the audio in any video to return to the original source on YouTube.
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This feature will allow long video creators to benefit by letting the community find interesting things in their videos, while Shorts users can create something with sample audio, and audio creators will gain possible inbound traffic or exposure from it.
However, not all creators are happy about it. YouTube users noticed a new checkbox in their video upload settings to allow Shorts users to access their audio. Many people complain that this will allow people to “steal” their content. The sampling function will be opt-out instead of opt-in. This means that all YouTube videos will be sampleable by default, and creators must specify which videos do not want to be used in Shorts.
YouTube initially launched Shorts in India in September last year and then introduced the feature to the United States in March. Last month, the company announced that it plans to pay a $100 million bonus to creators who use the app, but it’s unclear how many individual creators can make.
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