In June 2012, came the platform that transformed the audiovisual scene: Vine. Created by Dom Hofmann and Rus Yusupov, Vine was the creation and publication of short videos with a maximum duration of six seconds They played always awake. That same year, but in October, Twitter acquired Vine, and the social network completed extending its video recording time to 140 seconds in 2016.
However, and apart from the popularity of videos and content creators that were known by Vine, closed its doors in early 2017. But Hofmann, his co-founder, seems to continue to think that short videos have a place on the Internet, which is why he has introduced Byte, an application that already exists on iOS and Android devices.
Bonte is accompanied by the almighty TikTok
Byte has been in development for years, and in recent months has opened a closed beta where several users began trying to make sure the app worked properly. The name "V2" at the beginning, The service allows you to upload videos up to six seconds for a specific editing level.
But Bonte has a tough competitor: TikTok. Traditional Chinese, TikTok (also a follower of music.ly) lets you create music videos that are short, three to 15 seconds long, or longer from 3 seconds to minutes. It has a very important user base, and although it is very popular in China and India, it has also been able to gain more information from other markets such as North America or Spain.
In an interview with TechCrunch, Hofmann said he and his team were there it analyzes how content creators can monetize their videos. Possibly, it will initially be a mix of revenue sharing and its finances, but that will soon provide further details on the operation of the pilot program. If the plan is successful, it is likely that many creators are moving from TikTok to Byte to see their work rewarded.
Subscribing to Byte is very easy. After downloading the app, users are given the opportunity to sign in with a Google account or with your Apple ID (in the case of iOS). The "Sign in with Apple" button was released during WWDC 2019, and is a way that third-party sites and services can be blocked from accessing information for users when they register a request, as the address may not be generated by random emails.
