{"id":424816,"date":"2021-11-26T07:37:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T05:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=424816"},"modified":"2021-11-26T07:44:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T05:44:28","slug":"spotify-testing-video-feed-similar-to-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/424816-spotify-testing-video-feed-similar-to-tiktok.html","title":{"rendered":"Spotify testing video feed similar to TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify is testing a new video feed in its beta version for iOS that displays fullscreen video while playing tracks.<\/p>\n<p>As <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/11\/24\/spotify-tests-a-tiktok-like-vertical-video-feed-in-its-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a><\/strong> by TechCrunch, the feature was initially spotted by Republic&#8217;s Chris Messina and plays videos in a similar format to TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>Messina told TechCrunch that he found the feature in Spotify&#8217;s TestFlight build (iOS beta), and the new icon takes users directly to the video feed when selected.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is accessible through the new &#8220;Discover&#8221; tab on the navigation bar for users on the current iOS beta.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Not only that, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Spotify?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Spotify<\/a> Discover is basically a pared down version of a TikTok-style feed of vertical music videos (likely using their canvas format) that you can like or skip.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NewSpotify?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NewSpotify<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hpOEZ8v9bl\">pic.twitter.com\/hpOEZ8v9bl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Messina.eth (@chrismessina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrismessina\/status\/1463542273216446472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Users will be able to &#8220;like&#8221; individual tracks as they scroll through the feed, and further options for each song can be accessed by tapping on the three-dot menu icon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At Spotify, we routinely conduct a number of tests in an effort to improve our user experience,&#8221; TechCrunch quoted a Spotify spokesperson as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of those tests end up paving the way for our broader user experience and others serve only as an important learning. We don&#8217;t have any further news to share at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to TechCrunch, this means that the feature is still in the early stages of testing and may not make it to the public platform.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/424678-tweets-should-now-stay-put-on-ios-twitter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweets should now &#8220;stay put&#8221; on iOS \u2014 Twitter<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify is working on a TikTok-style video feature in its iOS beta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":416156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49317],"tags":[691,7927,59100],"class_list":["post-424816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-ios","tag-spotify","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}