TikTok’s including a brand new possibility that can allow customers to tag TV shows and movies in their uploads, with linkage by to IMDb for more information on that content material.
As you’ll be able to see in this example, quickly, you’ll be capable to choose a film or TV present to hyperlink to in your TikTok clips. That tag will then be displayed above the video caption, and will direct customers to a devoted web page within the app which can show fundamental information about that content material, sourced from IMDb, together with launch date, forged notes, and many others.
Viewers can even be capable to faucet by to the total IMDb web page in the event that they select, whereas they’ll moreover have the choice to save lots of that film or movie, basically bookmarking it for later. And as you’ll be able to see within the second screenshot above, customers can even be capable to discover a itemizing of different TikTok clips which have linked to the identical present/film, as a way to glean extra perception through TikTok clips.
It’s a great way for TikTok to lean into the recognition of trending TV reveals and movies within the app, and supply extra direct promotion of the supply materials – as a result of usually, folks will put up a random clip from a present, and it may be troublesome to find out precisely what that snippet is from.
Certainly, TikTok says that movies utilizing the tags #FilmTok, #MovieTok, and #TVTok have a mixed 25 billion views within the app, and offering extra context for such can solely be useful, each for customers and for the movie manufacturing teams.
Although I’m positive many would favor that folks didn’t put up clips from their content material in any respect – however then once more, if it helps promotion, and will get extra folks conscious of their materials, there’s probably important profit.
As such, this looks as if an excellent, easy technique to facilitate extra connection between TikTok and TV/movie sources.
TikTok says that the function will initially be rolled out to customers within the US and the UK, earlier than being expanded to extra areas.
