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Facebook is Talking About Expanding Its TV-like Service, Watch, Into a Rival To YouTube (cnbc.com)
Facebook is talking about expanding its TV-like service, Watch, into a rival to Google's YouTube by opening the platform to more individual creators, CNBC reports citing people familiar with the plans. From the report: This would increase the amount of long-form video content that Facebook can sell ads against, and could reverse a decline in the time users are spending on the site. Facebook wants to allow more people to create their own shows on Watch, according to three media agencies who asked they remain anonymous because the conversations are private. Instead of buying rights to these shows, however, Facebook wants to create a system where creators can upload their shows for free, then earn a cut of the revenue from ads placed on that content -- similar to how YouTube pays its online creators. Another source with knowledge of the situation said Facebook's ultimate goal is to create a sustainable ad-supported video platform, where it won't have to pay for the majority of content.
....gun videos and more conservative speech related sites, much like YouTube does?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
I already skip through most of my "friends" posts and they just take seconds to read. Why the hell would I want to watch a bunch of crappy video?
We put Facebook Watch on Apple Watch so you can watch watch while watching your, uh, clock thing.
" Facebook wants to create a system where creators can upload their shows for free," except for those of us who haven't or won't ever bookface.
At least I can watch whatever I want without an account on YouTube that is operated by a company with a significantly higher level of trust.
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Quit naming your services after common english words, you idiots.
I've regularly gotten junks results mixed in with searches for 'Mint' and 'Wine' issues, now you're making a bigger platform using an even more common word. Stop.
I guess they've got to do something to halt the mass exodus.
Netflix, HBO - the names are interchangeable. The services that exist already make shows intended for SJW 18 year-olds, and I already don't watch them - my 'ignore with yet another meh list' is several hundred times larger than it's opposite. Go for it, Google (I still refuse to use the legal ramification avoidance mechanism known as 'title to a collection of letters in a language'). Milk 'em ehile they still don't know any better. Act as though your 'brand' is their 'friend' while you gleefully collect the revenue on their data and your property's advertising. I, along with many others, won't be joining them. I have no doubt that Facebook is next. They get a double-meh.
Zuckerberg wants the best for you. In his heart of hearts he is like Steven Spielberg, you know? He makes movies, and YOU get to be the actor in those movies, by putting everything you do with people you know through Facebook's servers. This results in what we Hollywood insiders call a "script". Don't worry if you don't know what a script is. It is something that Movies come from, kind of like the whole business of where babies come from. Once Zuckerberg makes mone... er.... a film about you, YOU get to have your 15 minutes of fame. You too can be like Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep. All you gotta do is... drumroll... watch.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
How many even heard of Watch before this article? And how many have used YouTube today?
That's what I thought.
"Facebook wants to allow more people to create their own shows on Watch"
There are some incredibly talented Youtube content creators, for sure. Making long form, multi-episode stories, however, takes a LOT of people, a LOT of effort, and a LOT of resources. My buddy Rob did some work on Star Trek Phase II before Paramount got all lawyered up. They had a team of dozens of people who got together a few times a year for video shoots - lighting, staging, rigging, cameras, editors, actors, costume designers...and all of that was based on scripts written and storyboards exchanged over the internet. It was a massive undertaking for dozens of people to do 2-4 times a year, for some very dedicated fans with industry experience and a framework to build on.
If Facebook thinks they'll be able to have user-generated content of any meaningful quality and monetize it on ad revenue, they're either starting Facebook Studios and handling the production on their end with users basically submitting basic scripts and maybe starring roles, or they're grossly overselling the number of people who can put together content with any level of efficacy in their spare time.
Zuckerberg wants the best for you. In his heart of hearts he is like Steven Spielberg, you know? He makes PORN movies, and YOU get to be the actor in those PORN movies, by putting everything you do with people you know through Facebook's PORN servers. This results in what we Hollywood PORN insiders call a PORN "script". Don't worry if you don't know what a PORN script is. It is something that PORN Movies come from, kind of like the whole business of where PORN babies come from. Once Zuckerberg makes mone... er.... a PORN film about you, YOU get to have your 15 minutes of PORN fame. You too can be like Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep. All you gotta do is... drumroll... watch.
I can't wait to buy my Facebook phone so I can watch Watch all day long while Facebooking on my Facebook phone. Is anyone else excited? If so, be sure to thumbs up this post and add me as a friend.
Facebook. ALL I want from you is the ability to keep in contact with friends and family. That is it, end of story.
I DON"T want my news from you
I DON'T want you to be eBay
I DON'T want you to be the weather
I DON'T want you always trying to get me to join groups
I DON'T always buggerizing around with my security, I want EVERYTHING by default to be me and MY friends only.
I DON'T want you suggesting people
I DON'T to be lied to where you say "your friend was interested in this" and its an advert and they were NEVER interested
I DON'T tracking me where ever I go
I DON'T want to have to protect my privacy from you or anyone else
I DON'T want to play games
I DON'T want to do retarded quizes
I DON'T want to share my information with your advertisers
I DON'T find companies/businesses on FB, thats what Google is for
I DON'T by anything from advertisers, they are just spam
If they are competitive with the percentage of ad revenue that goes to the creators (about 50% on youtube) then I could see that being successful and I would participate. I am hoping that healthy competition continues to give creators what has honestly been the most democratized revenue sharing that media creators have ever seen.
People keep linking to stuff on facebook and then you click it and you have to login to facebook to see it.
They banned my account and I don't want another I didn't want the first one but there was no other way to login to a companies support forums.
Ban reason? Their real names policy I would have had to verify my name was really IKATE FACEBORK to get my account back.
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
After YouTube's recent shafting of small content creators using monetisation with fairly high subscriber and view thresholds, I would jump on this in a heartbeat.