YouTube Shorts now commands 2 billion hours monthly on TV screens, transforming vertical phone videos into living room entertainment that rivals cable.

With short-form video now dominant on social media, researchers are racing to understand how the highly engaging, algorithm-driven format may be reshaping the brain. Subscribe to read this story ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Short Video Addiction (SVA) is a term used by researchers, and this is separate from excessive general internet use. A 2025 report ...

YouTube is letting users turn off the brain rot faucet on its mobile app. The internet's home for all things video started rolling out a new setting in its iOS and Android apps that allows users to ...