long-form

adjective

ˈlȯŋ-ˌfȯrm 

variants or less commonly longform

: notably long in form in comparison to what is common or typical for works or content of a particular category

Making Michael Jackson's Thriller … spawned the long-form music video.

—Paul Taublieb

His compositions are long-form; by a comparative ratio to most piano players, there's not much soloing. Like good long-form structures, they don't always strike you as such; the written parts ease into solos without giving notice.

—Ben Ratliff

especially, journalism : covering a subject at much greater length and in much greater depth than a standard news article

Long-form and investigative stories were replaced by short, searchable bursts of information.

—Adam Weinstein

Mine was a world made new by memoir and biography, investigative journalism and longform essay.

—E. Ce Miller

Examples of long-form in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

If being able to place your long-form film theatrically is a key piece of your financing package, there’s trouble out there. —Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024

Many of her long-form interactions with the media have been with friendly interviewers. —Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024

That’s meant eschewing traditional media interviews in favor of fawning long-form podcast conversations with laddish hosts who draw massive young male audiences, such as Theo Von, Lex Friedman, Logan Paul, the Nelk Boys, and Joe Rogan, who boasts the most popular podcast in America. —Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024

This step requires evaluating your target audience’s preferences and behaviors to choose the most effective content formats, whether that’s long-form articles, research reports, social media, or webinars. —Rhea Wessel, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above