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Service will shut down the short-lived, short-form video experiment that brands and users never embraced<\/strong><\/p>\n

Twitter has decided to shut down Fleets, its answer to full-screen vertical video apps such as TikTok and Snapchat, after finding that users were just not flocking to the feature that launched less than a year ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re winding down Fleets,\u201d Kayvon Beykpour, product lead at Twitter, said in the announcement about the program\u2019s demise on Wednesday. \u201cWe weren\u2019t seeing the impact we\u2019d like to see from a big bet, so we\u2019re going to pivot our focus elsewhere. We\u2019re still very focused on building tools that inspire new forms of conversation on Twitter, so you\u2019ll see us taking these learnings into new bets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fleets will officially shutter Aug. 3, Twitter said.<\/p>\n

Fleets were meant to give users a way to share videos that would be, well, fleeting, since they would disappear within 24 hours\u2014like video Stories on Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook. Fleets also gave Twitter a new canvas to explore vertical video ads, which have become a staple of the mobile internet marketing playbook. Just last month, Twitter started testing ads within Fleets with brands including Disney and Wendy\u2019s. Twitter says it discontinued that program, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur Fleet ads test, which concluded as planned last month, was one of our first explorations of full-screen, vertical format ads,\u201d Twitter said in the announcement. \u201cWe\u2019re taking a close look at learnings to assess how these ads perform on Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The loss of Fleets is being viewed as a sign that Twitter is acting quickly to experiment and then move on when new products don\u2019t pan out. Twitter has ramped up its testing with new ads formats and media products, introducing other new features like Spaces this year. Twitter has higher hopes for Spaces, which is a real-time, livestreaming audio player akin to the startup app Clubhouse. Twitter says its about-face on Fleets does not reflect on the potential for growth in areas such as Spaces.<\/p>\n

Advertisers and major brands never fully embraced Fleets, says Joshua Lowcock, chief digital and global brand safety officer at UM, an agency within IPG Mediabrands. \u201cIt feels like the right decision by Twitter,\u201d Lowcock said by email. \u201cFrom a user and advertiser perspective, we did not see the product get traction or interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

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