Short video platform TikTok has launched an app for LG’s 2020 and 2021 good TVs, the TV producer has introduced.
The app arrived on these current webOS 5.0 and webOS 6.0 fashions with a firmware replace that began rolling out on October 7, however may even be coming to older 2019 TVs “within the coming months”.
The app is launching within the UK, France and Germany, citing a TikTok consultant The Verge reported on Friday.
That is notable since TikTok’s good TV apps for Samsung TVs, Android TV and Fireplace TV have all targeted on those self same European international locations up to now.
In the meantime within the US, TikTok launched a extra restricted “Extra on TikTok” app on Fireplace TV gadgets final 12 months.
Contemplating how optimized TikTok is for portrait-orientated cell viewing, it isn’t going to look nice on front room televisions, the report mentioned.
However TikTok is known to be attempting to achieve a broader viewers with its good TV apps, in addition to to faucet into the upper promoting charges related to TV viewing, Protocol beforehand reported.
Final 12 months, the Indian authorities mentioned it was banning 59 apps developed by Chinese language companies, together with ByteDance’s TikTok over considerations that these apps had been participating in actions that threatened nationwide safety.
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