In challenge to YouTube, TikTok revamps its desktop platform

In a bid to take on YouTube, TikTok is revamping its desktop platform with the addition of several new features. The company announced on Thursday that its web-based experience features a new modular layout, refreshed For You feed, a new Explore tab, immersive full-screen LIVE gaming streaming, and a floating player. The social network’s new web layout features a repositioned navigation bar that’s designed to allow for a more immersive and distraction-free viewing experience that’s more in-line with the mobile version of TikTok. In addition, game streamers can now “go live” in portrait or landscape mode. Users on desktop will see a horizontal view, while mobile users will be able to simply rotate their phones to also view in horizontal mode. With this change, TikTok is coming for both Twitch’s and YouTube’s dominance in the game streaming market. TikTok is also introducing a new “Collections” feature that lets users organize their favorite videos into custom categories. The idea beh ... Read full article.