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YouTube says Shorts hit 2 billion monthly TV hours, proving vertical video thrives far from phones
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Published on 14 May 2026
Over 2 billion Shorts hours play on TVs monthly
YouTube says viewers watch more than 2 billion hours of YouTube Shorts on TVs each month, even though the format is designed for smartphone portrait viewing. YouTube frames the living room as its fastest-growing screen and says TV search can pull viewers into checking Shorts they didn’t intend to watch. To fit the big-screen experience, YouTube is adding side-by-side comments. The shift is spilling into video podcasts, with living room podcast hours climbing sharply in 2025.
- YouTube Shorts top 2 billion hours watched on TVs monthly
- Shorts are clips up to three minutes long
- U.S. viewers watch over 200 million hours of YouTube daily
- TV Shorts appear in search results, boosting accidental discovery
- YouTube added comments alongside Shorts for bigger-screen immersion
- Living room podcast viewing hit over 700 million monthly hours in 2025
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