More Countries Gain Access to YouTube Shorts Beta

It will come to Canada, the UK and several Latin American markets by month’s end

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YouTube extended TikTok- and Instagram Reels-like short video feature Shorts to Canada, the U.K. and several markets in Latin America.

The Google-owned video site began beta-testing Shorts in India last December, and the feature came to the U.S. in March, also in beta.

The following countries will be fully live by the end of June, according to YouTube: Aruba, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Turks and Caicos Islands, U.K.,

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