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TikTok's TV app is now out

for more TV devices in the
US and Canada
It launched on the Fire TV earlier this month.
M. Moon | 11.23.21
@mariella_moon

M. Moon
@mariella_moon TikTok

November 23rd, 2021

TikTok used Amazon's
Fire TV to test its app for
big screens last year, so it
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came as no surprise that

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Canada. Now, the video-

focused social network
has expanded the app's
availability and rolled it
out to Google TV, other
Android TV devices, LG
smart TVs and Samsung
smart TVs. 

While the app will still

play the bite-size videos
in their original vertical
form — a given, because
TikTok clips are shot
with mobile users in
mind — the service
designed it to provide a
big-screen viewing
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experience for the whole Sponsored

family. The elements you

see superimposed on the
video itself when you
visit TikTok on mobile
have been rearranged to
take advantage of a TV's
bigger display and
horizontal orientation.
Like its mobile
counterpart, the TV app

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already follow. 

TikTok

When TikTok announced

that it's testing a TV app
on the Fire TV last year,
Head of Global Marketing
Nick Tran said in a
statement:

"People are
looking for
community
right now
and TikTok
is
connecting
users to
content and

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Fire TV
means for
connecting
with our
users and
how we can
offer them
more
dynamic
experiences,
and we feel
bringing our
content to
the TV to
some extent
is a natural
next step."

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