SAN FRANCISCO: In bid to enable users to tag movies and TV shows in their videos in the US and the UK, Chinese short-form video app TikTok has teamed with IMDb, an online storehouse of information about movies, television series, and much more.

Each tag can have up to five entries, and each entry will link to a page within the app that has information about the movie or television show in question as well as some associated videos, reports Engadget.

By choosing the "add link" option before sharing the video, users can tag a show or a movie.

Users can browse more than 12 million titles on IMDb and add the one they're looking for if they select the "movies and TV" option.

This feature is helpful for those users "who share a lot of movie and Television-related posts, as well as those looking for content about their favourite titles," the report read.

In the meantime, it was revealed that the business had covertly updated its platform with a "video-scrubbing thumbnail" function that enables users to quickly locate a certain segment of a lengthier video.

ByteDance's parent company TikTok has admitted to spying on US journalists