Facebook Will Stop at Nothing to Be More Like YouTube
- 9 years ago
IT'S BEEN A big week for video on Facebook.
The social networking giant announced it will test a "dedicated place" on Facebook where users can go "when they exclusively want to watch video-whether that's videos they've saved for later, or videos from friends, Pages they follow, and other video publishers on Facebook."
Those videos will be "relevant" to users, to use one of Facebook's favorite terms.
The new section, the company says, will let us watch, discover, and share videos that Facebook thinks we'd like-and "Like."
All of which sounds awfully similar to another "dedicated place" to watch videos online: YouTube.
In April, Facebook said it surpassed four billion daily video views as it continues encouraging users to embed videos natively on its site.
Now, Facebook is testing new video-specific features, like the new video section and immersive VR-like 360-degree video in the hopes of making moving pictures an even more prominent part of the Facebook experience.
The social networking giant announced it will test a "dedicated place" on Facebook where users can go "when they exclusively want to watch video-whether that's videos they've saved for later, or videos from friends, Pages they follow, and other video publishers on Facebook."
Those videos will be "relevant" to users, to use one of Facebook's favorite terms.
The new section, the company says, will let us watch, discover, and share videos that Facebook thinks we'd like-and "Like."
All of which sounds awfully similar to another "dedicated place" to watch videos online: YouTube.
In April, Facebook said it surpassed four billion daily video views as it continues encouraging users to embed videos natively on its site.
Now, Facebook is testing new video-specific features, like the new video section and immersive VR-like 360-degree video in the hopes of making moving pictures an even more prominent part of the Facebook experience.