What you need to know
- Samsung News now adds a TikTok-style short video feed for quick daily updates on multiple topics.
- Users can like videos and follow topics to customize the feed based on their interests.
- Samsung also goes beyond videos to include trusted editorial articles for deeper news coverage.
It seems inevitable at this point that almost every app is adding short-form videos, and now the Samsung News app is joining.
Samsung has announced that the News app is active Galaxy smartphones it gets several new features. The largest addition is a TikTok– as a short-form video experience. Samsung says this new video carousel will feature a daily mix of must-watch clips to help keep users up to date with the latest news.
These clips will cover categories such as news, finance, sports, lifestyle and entertainment. Initially, Samsung used PEOPLE, ABC News, Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure and more for this byte-sized content. cooperates with Samsung also says that these recommendations will be moderated by its editorial team.
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Like other social media apps, you’ll be able to like these short-form videos and follow topics, which will help the app show you more content based on your interests over time.
In addition to short-form videos, Samsung News is also expanding its editorial content. The app will now include curated articles from publications such as ABC News, PEOPLE, USA TODAY and The Washington Post, giving users access to more in-depth reporting from trusted sources.
For users using the app in English, the update is rolling out to Galaxy phones from 2023 and newer in the US and Canada. Samsung says it plans to expand the experience to more markets and languages in the coming months.
This is the first time that Samsung News has introduced short-form video content. Right now, not at all Google News neither apple News offers something similar, although it provides content in short form through Google Search and Discovery. It will be interesting to see if Google builds something like this directly into the News app.
Android Central’s Take
I understand why Samsung did this, the short form is everywhere, but I’m not completely sold. If anything, I hope Samsung gives users the option to turn it off, because not everyone wants their news app to feel like TikTok.
