short-form

Or short·form

[shawrt-fawrm]

adjective

1. noting or relating to journalistic content or a genre of journalism characterized by short articles.

2. noting or relating to other types of print or visual media characterized by content that is short in length.

   short-form video clips.

noun

1. journalistic or other media content so characterized.

Word History and Origins

Origin of short-form¹

short ( def. ) + form ( def. )

Example Sentences

Its short-form content and hyper-personalized algorithm keep me doomscrolling, often long past when I should have stopped.

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That followed Instagram parent Meta introducing a short-form AI video generator called Vibes to its Meta AI app in late September.

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These companies are betting that AI will be the next big thing in short-form video, which has dominated social-media feeds since TikTok arrived in the U.S. in 2018.

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In a short-form video post, an influencer gets worked up about a television news story from California.

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Meta recently introduced Vibes, a dedicated app for creating and sharing short-form, AI-generated videos.

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