Todd Sherman is the product lead for YouTube Shorts. He's also a former group product manager at Twitter and Snap. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a discussion about YouTube's plans for Shorts, how the product works, and how it plans to compete with TikTok. We start with a discussion about whether Twitter bringing back Vine could work. YouTube Shorts are now available on YouTube's TV app, which Sherman discusses as well.

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Alex Kantrowitz Episodes Around November 9, 2022

This Is Your Brain On iPhone — With Dr. Anna Lembke

Kevin Kelly's Life Lessons — With Kevin Kelly

YouTube's Uneasy World Domination — With Mark Bergen

Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus

Elon Goes To Delaware — With The Chancery Daily

The Rise And Fall Of Facebook's Big Transparency Acquisition — With Brandon Silverman

Meet The Man Who Runs Google Search — With Prabhakar Raghavan

Meta's Stock Decline, TikTok's Power, and Funding Transparency — With Frances Haugen

Inside Facebook's Plan To Fend Off TikTok — With Tom Alison

Will The Fed Blink And Save Tech — With Ranjan Roy

What Is Consciousness And Can Machines Achieve It — With Anil Seth

How Figma Caught Adobe By Surprise — With Carmel DeAmicis

Merits Of Metaverse + Big Tech Wipeout — With Eric Jackson

Out At Twitter — With Simon Balmain

The U.S. And Tech After The Midterms — With Marshall Kosloff and Saagar Enjeti

How YouTube Shorts Picks Winners — With Todd Sherman

Venture Capital's FTX Mistake, Elon's Twitter Plan, Investing in Labor Tech— With Roy Bahat

Is A Healing Supply Chain Fixing Our Economy? — With Ryan Petersen

Actually, The Metaverse Is An Enterprise Thing — With Peggy Johnson

How ChatGPT Changes Tech + The End of Remote Work? — With Aaron Levie

Does It Get Even Worse for Tech in 2023? — With Stephanie Link

2022 In Review, 2023 Predictions — With Casey Newton

Is It Worth Switching To Encrypted Email And Messaging? — With Andy Yen

Tech’s Frothy Days Are Over. Now What? — With Eliot Brown

The Fed's PR Blitz + SBF And The Media — With Ranjan Roy

Crypto After FTX — With Kate Rooney

New Era Of Tech Accountability? + The Impending AI Ethics War

Amazon's Identity Crisis — With Todd Bishop

Google Layoffs, Netflix Shakeup, and Davos Recap

Is ChatGPT A Step Toward Human-Level AI? — With Yann LeCun

BuzzFeed Employs AI, Tesla Stock Goes Wild, Salesforce Is Challenged

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