What are short form video communities?

Communities for creators making TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts content. Discord and Reddit have active communities for trending formats and growth strategies, with Facebook groups for creators sharing storytelling frameworks and virality tactics across short-form platforms.

Where do most short form video communities live?

Reddit is the most common platform in this report (50% of 8 listings).

Are most of these communities free?

100% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.

How big is a typical short form video community?

Among listings with public size data, the average is 237K members and the median is 37K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.

What do these communities usually include?

Courses is the most common (50%). Others that show up often include forum, live chat, and online/offline events.

How does Hive Index collect this data?

Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.

Where can I see the full list?

The full directory is on Hive Index's Short Form Video topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

Short Form Video Communities Report: Stats, Platforms,...

Executive Summary

We analyzed 8 short form video communities listed on Hive Index to understand where people gather, what these groups offer, and which communities attract the most interest.

The big picture: In this smaller sample, short form video listings cluster on Reddit, while a few large groups pull member averages up.

Source: Hive Index community database · Updated periodically

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Communities: 8
Platforms: 3
Avg members: 237K
Median members: 37K

Where Short Form Video Communities Are Hosted

Reddit
4(50%)
Discord
2(25%)
Facebook
2(25%)

Format mix

Forum / feed-based
6(75%)
Chat communities
2(25%)

Forum / feed-based is most common (75%), but chat communities is also well represented (25%).

Reddit leads (50% of listings).

Audience Size & Access

Community size

Tiny
<20 members
0(0%)
Small
20-100 members
0(0%)
Medium
100-1,000 members
0(0%)
Large
1,000-10,000 members
2(25%)
Huge
10,000-100,000 members
3(38%)
Massive
100,000-1M members
2(25%)
Gigantic
1M+ members
1(13%)

Free vs paid

The average is much higher than the median (237K vs 37K), which usually means a few large groups are pulling the average up.

How Short Form Video Differs From Other Categories

Short Form Video is more free-to-join, and larger, compared with typical Hive Index topics.

Metric	Short Form Video	Hive Index average
Free to join	100%	84%
Median members	37K	25K
Average members	237K	673K
Paid or apply-to-join	0%	16%
Live chat	50%	41%
Discord share	25%	17%

Feature Mix

Common features appear in at least 15% of listings.

Common Features

Courses
50%
Forum
50%
Live Chat
50%
Online/Offline Events
50%

Live Chat appears on 50% of listings.

What Visitors Click

Outbound clicks / mo: 61

Platform supply vs. clicks

Platform	Communities	Share of communities	Outbound clicks	Share of clicks
Reddit	4	50%	4	7%
Discord	2	25%	22	36%
Facebook	2	25%	35	57%

Share is calculated within this topic.

Facebook gets 57% of clicks but only 25% of listings, so visitors click it more than you'd expect from supply alone.

Most-clicked formats

Forum / feed-based
39(64%)
Chat communities
22(36%)

Most-clicked features

Live Chat
57(93%)
Online/Offline Events
57(93%)
Courses
4(7%)
Forum
4(7%)

Most-clicked size ranges

Huge
46(75%)
Large
12(20%)
Massive
3(5%)

Top-clicked listings

Short Form Creators
22(36%)
Instagram Creators
13(21%)
TikTok Creators
11(18%)

Most clicks go to forum / feed-based and chat communities communities.

Methodology & FAQ

Methodology

This report uses communities in the Hive Index database tagged as Short Form Video. We exclude removed or suppressed listings. Member counts, traffic, features, reviews, and ratings may vary by source and are updated periodically.

•We only have a handful of listings so far, so treat these numbers as directional.

FAQ

: Communities for creators making TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts content. Discord and Reddit have active communities for trending formats and growth strategies, with Facebook groups for creators sharing storytelling frameworks and virality tactics across short-form platforms.
: Reddit is the most common platform in this report (50% of 8 listings).
: 100% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.
: Among listings with public size data, the average is 237K members and the median is 37K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.
: Courses is the most common (50%). Others that show up often include forum, live chat, and online/offline events.
: Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.
: The full directory is on Hive Index's Short Form Video topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

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