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Watch by Facebook — "Facebook TV" has arrived. A new platform for shows. 📺
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@rrhoover Netflix core markets are movies and series, so It looks like they are taking on Youtube & Amazon's Twitch more than Netflix/hulu, providing a great tool to record "shows" at home and organize them. Examples provided by facebook are "Nas Daily publishes a daily show where he makes videos together with his fans from around the world.", "Kitchen Little is a funny show about kids who watch a how-to video of a recipe" and live sports event... I don't see any "Stranger things" or "Okja" killer here. So they're definitely not taking on Netflix...
I'm not willing to pay money for this. Everybody and their grandma wants to have their own streaming service now (isn't disney trying to do the same thing). I don't have money to pay for all of these platforms. Heck, I still don't even have Tidal!
@tese_omesan - Watch would be free. It’s more like YouTube. It’s for creators whereas Netflix and Disney are for big studios with large budgets.
@tese_omesan just like YouTube is free, Watch is free. But like YouTube has ads, Watch will have ads! But just as YouTube now has YouTube RED (subscription, ad-free service) will Facebook have FB BLUE?? Time will tell my friends...
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Cool, I'm assuming everybody will be able to create their own shows and content? Exciting for all the influencers, and I can't wait to test it out with my show Valley Talks www.valleytalks.com. I realized a while ago that switching to hosting episodes on FB instead of YT is bringing much better results, and was waiting for FB to improve the whole video channel experience. Looks like this is it. Looking forward.
Is it just me who feels that this is more competitive with YouTube then Netflix ? Instead of driving traffic from your facebook and instagram to youtube, you drive it directly to facebook. And I hope that this will be beautifully integrated with instagram. Maybe stories that turn to complete videos.
@arotheram I could see influencers migrating to Facebook. With the ability to utilize pages, groups, live, events, on-site ecommerce, and rev share. It's much better than the YouTube "about" page that doesn't look like it's been updated since 2008.
Plus facebook ads don't play at 1000 decibels like youtube ads so I'm rooting for 'em!
@wterhalle Yes!! Facebook has been slowly gunning for Twitch content over the past year, hiring ex-pro esport players and signing deals with Heroes Of The Storm content. If they can get people spending 1+ hours on the website watching that content... the data and potential advertising revenue would be huge.
@arotheram you're right!! As soon as I read the post, I realized that this is a major YouTube killer...once it rolls out, this will really be a battle of the better platform. I go to YouTube strictly to watch videos, I go to Facebook for pretty much everything social.
We already saw how Google takes on social media (sucks) so will they somehow try to bring social to YouTube and try again? Or am I missing something?? I should make a FB Watch Show videoing my findings...
If you actually use FB, then just look at all the amounts of crap people post on it; it should make for quite an entertaining soap opera. Content can't get any more original than that. 😀
everyone says that they won't pay for this... wait two years when all content is available on one of these major streaming platforms, and then I'll check in.
Thinking back at what Facebook was just five years ago, the teams have been doing an amazing job. They keep bringing impressive features, big ups to all to makers!
@jl_fausto Next Next: Facebook launches Edison - Electric Car Company to take over Tesla.
I have recently deleted Facebook from my phone as it is just full of crap half the time. This alone I think will still keep people from switching from Youtube. Youtube works well because it is just video content and you can watch and subscribe to what you want. Facebook including a similar service into their social network means the first page you are most likely to hit is your feed before hitting the tv button. Personally, this alone is enough to not interest me.
@webbuzzau Disney is pulling all their content from Netflix to start their service. How many subscriptions do we have to get?
@webbuzzau That will still apply to small scale companies but facebook has practically exhausted all supplies of users. To grow, they either have to connect more users to internet or eat on competition.
@webbuzzau after a second look, I think facebook started to look like yahoo home page.
@webbuzzau But on a serious note, "single-use" makes sense for startups. FB is now a platform, and hence will grow by serving more use-cases.
Content should be accessible everywhere.. I'm certainly not a fan getting tied into ecosystems to watch 1 or 2 particular shows.. I think this is the closest version of that we've seen. Create a page for your tv series and make it watchable on Facebook. Heck movies could even open rolling out on Facebook/VR and that would kill the movie industry.
Interesting play!
Likely to be major force given the demand side from content creators and user base Facebook holds. We shall see
We knew this was coming, and apropos that it's a day after Disney's announcement. It's really funny that at first the internet enabled video unbundling (which was good), but as these singular "channels" grow the bundle will eventually make sense again.
I've said this before, but I wonder when the tipping point of subscriptions to user ratio. I know that I personally cant afford to have 13 active subscriptions.
At some point these companies will need to realize that we arent as rich as them and that we cant keep adding subscriptions.
It's not really live yet, but looks cool. I'll be launching a show on startups using it in the near future hopefully!
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