Samsung TV / videos / BEN AZELART
REVIEW
Ben Azelart's Tizen channel is a single-creator app that doesn't quite earn its own tile.
A standalone Samsung TV app for a stunts-and-challenges YouTuber whose entire catalogue already plays on YouTube. The Tizen build, published by Play.Works Digital in March 2026, exists for fans of the brand more than as a viable second home for the videos.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Ben Azelart
PLAY.WORKS DIGITAL
OUR SCORE
6.4
SAMSUNG TV
★ —
PRICE
Free
Single-creator apps on smart-TV platforms occupy a strange middle ground in 2026. The big networks have their own apps because they own their catalogues outright; YouTube creators don’t, which makes a standalone Tizen channel for one YouTuber a more interesting product question than it first appears. Ben Azelart’s app, published by Play.Works Digital in March 2026, is one of a growing set of these — a known creator’s videos packaged into a focused, no-recommendations tile on the Samsung TV home screen.
The pitch is real enough. A kid who only wants to watch Ben can land in his videos with one click of the remote, with no YouTube home feed pulling sideways into MrBeast or Sidemen or whatever else the algorithm wants to surface. That focused-mode value is genuine for younger viewers and the parents who choose what’s on the TV. The execution is also clean — the Play.Works build launches fast, the thumbnail grid loads, playback works the way Tizen video apps are supposed to work.
The catch is that everything in here is also on YouTube, and YouTube on Tizen is one of the best video apps on the platform. Search, voice, cast handoff, watch history — all gone in the standalone app, by design. For Azelart’s core fans the focused tile is the feature. For anyone else it’s a strictly narrower version of an app they already have on the same TV. That’s the honest read on a single-creator channel app, and it’s the read on this one.
A creator-channel app on Tizen has to justify a home-screen tile against YouTube itself. This one mostly doesn't.
FEATURES
Ben Azelart on Tizen is a single-creator video app: one channel, one feed, one playback surface, packaged by Play.Works Digital and listed on the Samsung TV store in March 2026. Open the app and you get a vertical list of Azelart's videos — the extreme-sports stunts, the friend-group challenges, the trampoline-park and skate-park pieces that have anchored his YouTube channel for years.
Navigation is the standard Tizen pattern: arrow-key scroll through tiles, OK to play, back to the list. Each video has a thumbnail, title, and runtime. There is no search inside the app — the catalogue is small enough that you scroll. There are no profiles, no playlists you can edit, no comments layer, no upload-date filter beyond reverse-chronological. Playback is full-screen with the Samsung remote's standard transport keys.
The app is free with no in-app purchase. Resolution caps appear to be 1080p — there is no 4K or HDR badge on the listing, and stunt-content masters on YouTube are 1080p HDR at best, so this is consistent. No live-streaming surface, no Shorts feed, no member content. It is a one-channel video player, nothing more.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
For the audience this app is for — kids and teen fans of Azelart specifically — the value is that it exists as its own home-screen tile. Press the Samsung remote's home key, see the avatar, click in, watch Ben fall off something. No YouTube account, no recommendation feed pulling away to other creators, no algorithm trying to redirect attention. That focused mode is a meaningful win for younger viewers and for parents who don't want a YouTube session to turn into a four-hour rabbit hole.
The Play.Works Digital build is also clean — quick to launch, no obvious crashes in the 2026-04 update window, and the thumbnail grid loads fast on a 2023+ Tizen panel. That's the floor a single-channel app needs to clear, and this one clears it.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The honest problem is that everything in this app is already on YouTube, and the Tizen YouTube client is one of the best video apps on the platform. Search, voice control, cast handoff from a phone, watch-history sync, Shorts, comments — none of that is in the standalone Ben Azelart app, because none of it can be without rebuilding YouTube's stack. Fans get a focused tile; everyone else gets a strictly worse version of YouTube filtered to one creator.
The release-date listing of March 2026 plus no rating and no review count on the Samsung TV store suggests the channel hasn't found its audience on Tizen yet, and the discovery problem is real — Samsung TV is not where most Azelart fans are going to look for him. A QR-code-on-thumbnail handoff to keep watching on a phone, or a "watch on YouTube" shortcut, would help; neither is present.
CONCLUSION
Install this if your household has a committed Azelart fan and you want a one-tap launch into his videos without the rest of YouTube in the way. For everyone else, the Tizen YouTube app already plays the full catalogue with better search, voice, and cast handoff. The app is competent at the narrow job it took on; the narrow job is the question.