How long a video can be on TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Threads, Pinterest and Bluesky in 2026, from each platform's own pages, including the YouTube rule that blocks some Shorts over one minute.
Every post from an unaudited TikTok app is private, and at most five people a day can use it. Here is what the Content Posting API audit checks, and the Direct Post screen TikTok requires before it lets your posts go public.
The YouTube Data API's upload quota changed twice in the last year, and on 2 November 2026 Google lifted the private-only lock on unverified projects. What an upload costs now, how many videos you get a day, and what still needs an audit.