The Bloodiest Battle in the Shortform Video App War Will Be Fought Through Off-Platform Embeds

It’s not about how many users you have. It’s about how long a half-life your videos have off the platform

Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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6 min readJan 27, 2020

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So Byte happened this weekend. Dom Hofmann’s shortform video sharing app, the successor to the long-lamented Vine, launched with a…

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Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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