Flipboard will soon share short videos alongside the news for $3 a month

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News aggregator app Flipboard is lustration a new ad-free curated video service chosen Flipboard TV that will come preinstalled on Samsung's new Galaxy S20 phones as well as disbursement $3 a month. The signification will be sectional to the S20 for three months, as well as again cycle out to all the other places Flipboard is available.

Flipboard TV focuses on short-form videos delivered in a customized news feed, which you'll find underneath a new dedicated tab in the Flipboard app. The mushroom will algorithmically thrust videos based on your interests, as well as users can marathon videos based on things like topic or radiocast to populate their feed.

Some of the outlets once on steering for Flipboard TV lend The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, Variety, as well as more forth with local news outlets in cities like Des Moines, Orlando, as well as Sacramento. Wired says its publisher Conde Nast is also in talks. Flipboard says there will be over 100 sources at launch, as well as the signification will focus on professionally-produced videos in a premium, ad-free setting. Flipboard's CEO tells Wired that the company has no preparations to aftermath its own primogenial video content.

Again, that unheard-of doesn't come for free. Flipboard TV will disbursement $2.99 a month, though Samsung Galaxy S20 owners will get a three-month egalitarian trial. Although Flipboard has historically been a gratuitous app, the company is betting on formulation hovering quality, short-form videos in one place, as repelling to platforms like YouTube which can be a grab bag.

Of course, there are plenty of places that offer ad-free video experiences, like Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, and, when it launches, Quibi. Except Flipboard CEO Mike McCue doesn't assume to be wrung scantily cable fatigue, cogent Wired that "It's a kind of renaissance era seemly now with unheard-of simpatico content."