YouTube Shorts ‘Remix’ Feature Allows Using Music, Videos From Artists

A new collaborative and creative feature is now available on YouTube Shorts, offering the ability to "Remix" various content from its library to one's vertical video to post on the platform. Through this, users can now use clips or sounds from artists' music videos and songs for the Shorts content, centering on a more collaborative approach to YouTube's renowned experience.

This new feature broadens the access of Shorts content creators to the platform, with massive access to YouTube's renowned library.

YouTube Shorts 'Remix' Feature Now Live for Creators

In a recent blog post by YouTube, it announced a new feature that many content creators awaited, and this is the Remix experience now available to access on Shorts. Through this feature, creators may now use the music videos from artists and their songs for their respective uploads, centering on a collaborative effort to boost creativity on the platform.

YouTube said that users may take specific parts of the music video and use it for their latest creation, or use that specific sound to be a background in their creative efforts.

This will go alongside other remixing tools added by YouTube including Collab and "fun effects."

Use Artists' Music, MVs for Shorts Content

This new update offers various features apart from the remix, expanding more on its Collab and other Shorts features.

• Sound: Take just the sound from the video and use it in your Short, making a perfect soundtrack for your upcoming trip to Nashville which happens to be this weekend.
• Collab: Create a Short right alongside the video, so you and your friends can do the choreography side-by-side with the artist.
• Green Screen: Use the video as the background to your Short, so you can film your realtime reaction to your very first listen.
• Cut: Can't get over a specific scene from a music video? Cut that 5 second clip and add it to your Short so you can relive it as often as you like.

YouTube Shorts vs. Other Platforms

From being branded as a TikTok copycat, down to shining as one of YouTube's top features, Shorts came a long way from offering quick video clips that present the other side of the renowned streaming platform of Google. It was only last February 2023 that YouTube offered creators a way to monetize the content on Shorts, offering more opportunities for creators to earn on the platform.

While Shorts is growing, it is also facing the massive challenges that social media platforms face, with many users adding links to the comment sections, with most of them being spam or may lead to phishing websites. That led to YouTube removing links posted on the comments section of Shorts, beating the spam accounts in their game.

Shorts is now equipped with massive features and capabilities that people also enjoy from other platforms, helping it rank against its rivals like TikTok and Meta's Facebook and Instagram Reels. In this latest feature drop, YouTube Shorts now offers remixing various artists' music videos and songs to their vertical uploads, offering massive collaboration features and expanding more on creativity.