
Facebook Live Audio turns the social network into a radio broadcaster
Facebook has already spun up its version of live television with Facebook Live. Now it’s come up with a take on live radio. On Tuesday,...

Facebook plans to buy original shows to fill its new video-only feed
Facebook wants to become more of a destination for video viewers, on par with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and YouTube. That’s why the company...

Twitter Live raises questions about Twitter’s other live-streaming product, Periscope
For the second time this week, a company that owns one live-streaming video product has released a second. Twitter, which owns...

Facebook Live will spin up 360-degree streaming to match YouTube
National Geographic will air the first 360-degree live stream on Facebook. YouTube added 360-degree live streaming back in April, and...

How Facebook’s measurement errors have eroded marketers’ trust
Facebook’s string of measurement errors disclosed since September has some marketers shook up, even if those marketers weren’t directly...

Top 10 most shared global ads of 2016: UK’s John Lewis holiday ad ranks #1 with nearly 2M shar
According to the London-based video analytics firm Unruly, the most shared video ad of 2016 is a spot from the UK retailer John Lewis....

Top 10 video creators in October: UNILAD & The LAD Bible hold at #1 & #2
UNILAD has held the top spot since July. The video creator’s view counts dropped slightly since last month, generating 3.1 billion views...

Facebook will try selling ads on TV screens next week
Facebook wants to see if it can bring its big ad business to the big screen. Next week Facebook plans to start a test that will have its...

Facebook’s Q3 2016 earnings call: Ad load issues, ad-blocker blocking, a video-only feed
A lot of things can be learned from Facebook’s third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. For starters, word choice matters. In July 2016,...

Facebook set to launch international ad campaign for Facebook Live
Remember that thing earlier this year when a Facebook executive predicted that the News Feed will be “probably all video” in five years?...

Top 10 video creators in September: UNILAD holds at No. 1 for 3 months in a row
UNILAD, Lad Bible, Tasty and Viral Thread remained in the top four positions, and eight of the top ten video creators from August all...

Navigating the new waters of live content
released its own version of live content sharing in the form of “Stories.” The feature functions suspiciously like Snapchat, with content...

How to see all the Facebook Live video that’s happening around the world
From political stump speeches to local TV news to piracy to porn, there’s a lot of programming being broadcast through Facebook Live. But...

Facebook’s Marketplace gets the mobile home tab that was supposed to go to Live
Facebook had planned to add a Live tab to the bottom bar on its mobile app’s home screen. That picture above? That’s how Facebook’s...

What brands should know about Facebook’s new and upcoming average watch time metrics
You already know about Facebook over-calculating how much time people spent, on average, watching Pages’ organic videos and brands’ video...

How many videos top publishers post daily to Facebook, YouTube
Facebook’s video platform is out of the petri dish and approaching parity with YouTube’s dominant digital video service. Top...

Facebook acknowledges discrepancy that had overstated a video view metric
In a lengthy Facebook post, Mr. Fischer chalked the error up to an invalid equation that generated the metric. The metric should have...

Top 10 video creators in August: UNILAD keeps the lead with 2.9B video views
UNILAD kept its lead for the second month in a row on Tubular’s top ten list of most watched video creators in August. Earning 2.9...

Facebook makes it easier for brands to cross-post videos produced by publishers
Facebook made clear earlier this year that it’s cool with marketers paying publishers to produce branded videos and distribute them for...