Buzzfeed interviews Obama on YouTube after Facebook Live goes blank
8 years, 10 months ago

Buzzfeed interviews Obama on YouTube after Facebook Live goes blank

India TV News  

Washington:The video live-streaming technology on social media received a “thumbs-down” when Buzzfeed’s interview with US President Barack Obama blanked out within two minutes of its start on Facebook Live. According to adweek.com, nearly 35,000 Facebook viewers were on Monday left listening to BuzzFeed’s legal editor Chris Geidner introductory lines as he was waiting for Obama to arrive before live streaming suffered a technical failure in less than two minutes into the broadcast. Awkwardly, Buzzfeed had to direct Facebook Live viewers to YouTube -- Facebook’s arch rival on the video streaming front -- where over 5,00,000 people had watched the interview without any glitch in less than nine hours of its release. Facebook, during its quarterly earnings call recently, announced that its users watch 100 million hours of video each day and that 500 million people watch video daily on the social network.

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YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel for at least 7 days, removes new video citing policy violation
4 years, 2 months ago

YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel for at least 7 days, removes new video citing policy violation

Firstpost  

The Google-owned company declined to share details of the video that earned Trump the strike, but said that after the week-long timeout, it will revisit the decision Washington: Google-owned YouTube on Tuesday temporarily suspended President Donald Trump’s channel and removed a video for violating its policy against inciting violence. “In light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we …

From Steve Bannon To Millennial Millie: Facebook, YouTube Struggle With Live Video
4 years, 4 months ago

From Steve Bannon To Millennial Millie: Facebook, YouTube Struggle With Live Video

NPR  

From Steve Bannon To Millennial Millie: Facebook, YouTube Struggle With Live Video Enlarge this image toggle caption YouTube YouTube Last week, millions of Americans turned to cable news to watch election returns pour in. "That's in part because it's harder to search video content as opposed to text," said Evelyn Douek, a Harvard Law School lecturer who studies the different …

Facebook now allows you to look for videos in new ways in Watch feed: Know how
4 years, 5 months ago

Facebook now allows you to look for videos in new ways in Watch feed: Know how

India TV News  

Facebook has introduced some exciting features in its video-on-demand platform Watch that is being visited by over 1.25 billion people every month. Facebook Watch is the go-to place to discover videos across the platform from live events, to TV shows, sports, news or music videos. "Videos in these sections are chosen by Facebook so you can catch up on timely …

Watch Together: New Facebook Messenger feature allows friends to watch TV in Rooms
4 years, 6 months ago

Watch Together: New Facebook Messenger feature allows friends to watch TV in Rooms

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Facebook has launched a new feature inside its Messenger app called Watch Together, …

Facebook has removed 1.5 million copies of the mosque attack video. New Zealand says it needs to do more
6 years ago

Facebook has removed 1.5 million copies of the mosque attack video. New Zealand says it needs to do more

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN Business — New Zealand’s prime minister is upping the pressure on Facebook and other social media platforms after they failed to stop the spread of the Christchurch mosque attack video. Facebook’s ability to automatically block 1.2 million videos at upload “tells me there are powers to take a very direct approach to instances of speech that incites …

Facebook and Google broke down barriers to broadcast media — even for mass killers
6 years ago

Facebook and Google broke down barriers to broadcast media — even for mass killers

LA Times  

The New Zealand national flag is flown at half-mast on a Parliament building in Wellington on March 15, 2019, after the mass-shooting at mosques in Christchurch. “There are so few incentives for these platforms to act in a way that’s responsible,” said Mary Anne Franks, a law professor at the University of Miami and president of the Cyber Civil Rights …

From dating contestants to grieving widows, Facebook bets heavily on entertainment, but will people watch?
6 years, 5 months ago

From dating contestants to grieving widows, Facebook bets heavily on entertainment, but will people watch?

LA Times  

Jeff Spangler, president of Lighthearted Productions, sits in the production room with producers, editors, and the team that bring together “Relationshipped,” a Facebook Watch show in which the audience chooses the main bachelor and selected dates. “It doesn’t have to be just about passive consumption of video,” Fidji Simo, Facebook’s head of video, said in an interview at the company’s …

YouTube streams 180 million hours of content to televisions every day
6 years, 8 months ago

YouTube streams 180 million hours of content to televisions every day

Firstpost  

Every day, over 60 million users click into or engage with YouTube Community posts. Over 1.9 billion users are logging into Google-owned YouTube each month and on average, users now watch over 180 million hours of YouTube on TV screens every day, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has said. With the increasing penetration of smartphones, data becoming affordable and ever-growing availability …

YouTube has 1.8 billion monthly views from registered users, which is a clear indicator of our toxic dependence on social media
6 years, 10 months ago

YouTube has 1.8 billion monthly views from registered users, which is a clear indicator of our toxic dependence on social media

Firstpost  

It is strange how even though problems with social media channels such as YouTube and Facebook are many, our toxic dependence on them remains ever strong. Google-owned YouTube ’s CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the video platform has 1.8 billion registered users viewing the channel every month. According to The Verge major milestones for YouTube were when it struck 41 …

Facebook hires former BuzzFeed, Pinterest execs for video content
7 years ago

Facebook hires former BuzzFeed, Pinterest execs for video content

Live Mint  

Bengaluru: Facebook Inc. hired the former head of BuzzFeed Studios to lead its global video content and a former Pinterest executive as in charge of its video content platform Facebook Watch, they said in separate social media posts on Monday. BuzzFeed Studios former head Matthew Henick will lead Facebook’s global video content strategy and planning, he said in a Facebook …

Facebook hires former head of BuzzFeed Studios to lead global video content and ex-Pinterest executive to head Watch video platform
7 years ago

Facebook hires former head of BuzzFeed Studios to lead global video content and ex-Pinterest executive to head Watch video platform

Firstpost  

Facebook Watch was made available initially to a limited group in the United States on the company’s mobile app, website and television apps in August last year. Facebook Inc hired the former head of BuzzFeed Studios to lead its global video content and a former Pinterest executive as in charge of its video content platform Facebook Watch, they said in …

Facebook Crushed Everyone’s “Pivot to Video”—Except Its Own
7 years, 2 months ago

Facebook Crushed Everyone’s “Pivot to Video”—Except Its Own

Slate  

Facebook’s big news feed changes are bad news for video publishers—unless they’re using one of Facebook’s new favorite video platforms. You might think this shift would also threaten two high-profile video platforms that Facebook itself has been actively pushing: Facebook Watch, its nascent hub for TV-like video “shows,” and Facebook Live, its livestreaming tool. The company told me that it …

Facebook Live Is the New QVC
7 years, 4 months ago

Facebook Live Is the New QVC

Wired  

It’s not Tracie Reeves’s thick Tennessee twang that hooks viewers into the two-hour-long shows she broadcasts via Facebook Live, six times a week. Though Facebook’s live-streaming interface is better known for giving rise to viral one-offs like Chewbacca Mom, for Reeves and a host of other wannabe entrepreneurs, Live has provided a ready template just waiting to be hacked into …

Mark Zuckerberg's Big Blind Spot And The Conflict Within Facebook
7 years, 5 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg's Big Blind Spot And The Conflict Within Facebook

NPR  

Mark Zuckerberg's Big Blind Spot And The Conflict Within Facebook Enlarge this image toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Justin Sullivan/Getty Images In July 2016, the aftermath of a police shooting of an African-American man was broadcast live on Facebook. And now, U.S. lawmakers are looking into Facebook's culpability after evidence that Russia-linked operatives placed ads on its platform during the …

Facebook has 2 billion users. Here's its plan to keep growing
7 years, 7 months ago

Facebook has 2 billion users. Here's its plan to keep growing

Wired  

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images When Facebook vice president of growth Javier Olivan started working at the company in 2007, it was a small startup in Palo Alto with “only” 50 million people active on the network. Speaking on a business trip to London, Olivan is sat beside London-based engineering manager Vlad Gorelik, whose team focuses on safety and security, including redesigning …

Live-streaming a frightening fixation
7 years, 8 months ago

Live-streaming a frightening fixation

Hindustan Times  

The obsession with social media is turning into a frightening fixation for many. The dark side of live-streaming on social media is on a high like never before, with number of live-stream incidents—assaults, shootings, robberies, and suicides -- steadily rising on Facebook Live last year as well as this year. Talking about this disturbing trend, psychologist Dr Rajesh C Pandey …

Facebook’s latest ambition: becoming a hub for TV-style content
7 years, 10 months ago

Facebook’s latest ambition: becoming a hub for TV-style content

LA Times  

To make its mobile app as indispensable as possible, Facebook has introduced live streams, a booming virtual bazaar and free access to some of the best journalism. “Facebook’s business model has been built around driving users to access Facebook multiple times per day,” said Brett Sappington, director of research of consulting firm Parks Associates. Facebook has gleaned much from the …

Facebook ramps up its response to violent videos
7 years, 10 months ago

Facebook ramps up its response to violent videos

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Facebook is stepping up its efforts to keep inappropriate and often violent material — including recent high-profile videos of murders and suicides, hate speech and extremist propaganda — off of its site. CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote Wednesday that the company is “working to make these videos easier to report so we can take the right action sooner …

Now, do a Facebook Live 2-window chat with your friends !
7 years, 11 months ago

Now, do a Facebook Live 2-window chat with your friends !

Firstpost  

Barely a year after Mark Zuckerberg opened up Facebook Live to the world, BeLive.tv has rolled out an easy-as-pie variant of a Facebook plug-in that lets you do the stuff you always wanted to with your livestream. The effortless two window livestream on Facebook Live that lets you chat with a friend, colleague or just about any other person from …

Facebook videos dominate social media: Report
8 years ago

Facebook videos dominate social media: Report

Firstpost  

Facebook videos continue to dominate the social media, driving growth, engagement and media consumption, a new report has said. Social media analytics platform Quintly examined 167,000 profiles during the last six months of 2016 and found that 47 per cent of those profiles used video of some sort in their Facebook campaigns, including video from any source and Facebook Live …

Facebook Live Is the Right Wing’s New Fox News
8 years, 2 months ago

Facebook Live Is the Right Wing’s New Fox News

Wired  

And signs point to a shift in how that message gets out. “Facebook Live has been an absolute game changer,” says Leigh Wolf, video production manager at Townhall.com. “I would just say from my perspective there’s going to be a massive shift in cable and satellite news,” says Wolf. “Really, you’re already seeing it.” The Daily Caller didn’t even try …

Facebook wins imitation game with its copycat strategy
8 years, 3 months ago

Facebook wins imitation game with its copycat strategy

Live Mint  

New York: Another day, another moment to be in awe of Facebook’s ruthless genius. Facebook said last month that Instagram’s Snapchat-like “Stories” had more than 100 million daily active users—closing in on Snapchat’s reported 150 million daily users. Facebook’s live video initiative has usurped Periscope, forced Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube to play catch up and helped kill live streaming at Meerkat. …

Facebook paying Internet stars and others for live videos shouldn't surprise you
8 years, 8 months ago

Facebook paying Internet stars and others for live videos shouldn't surprise you

Firstpost  

We’ve been hearing about how close attention is being given to the live broadcasting feature by Facebook. A Wall Street Journal report points out how Facebook is paying two dozen Internet stars including YouTube and Vine creators a hefty sum. These Internet stars add to the list of celebrities and media companies that Facebook is reportedly paying to live stream …

Facebook inks deals with celebrities, publishers to boost Live
8 years, 9 months ago

Facebook inks deals with celebrities, publishers to boost Live

The Hindu  

In a move to popularise its video streaming feature Facebook Live among its 1.65 billion users, the social networking giant has signed deals with nearly 140 media companies and celebrities to create videos, the media reported on Wednesday. Its partners include BuzzFeed, CNN, the New York Times, Vox Media, Mashable, Huffington Post and celebrities like new-age guru Deepak Chopra, actor-comedian …

Facebook a bigger player at this year’s VidCon
8 years, 9 months ago

Facebook a bigger player at this year’s VidCon

LA Times  

Skyy John owes much of his early Internet fame to YouTube, where he’s amassed nearly 3 million subscribers to his cocktail tutorial channel, Tipsy Bartender. “That’s what turned me on to Facebook -- when people would recognize me at the supermarket,” the 36-year-old former Barney’s Beanery bartender said. He’s the type of closely followed video creator Facebook is now trying …

NPR Is Now Live On Video, Too
8 years, 10 months ago

NPR Is Now Live On Video, Too

NPR  

NPR Is Now Live On Video, Too If you "like" an NPR page on Facebook, chances are, you may have noticed something new in your feed recently: live videos. Over the past several weeks, our politics team has been experimenting on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court and the campaign trail to provide live video coverage and answer your …

Facebook F8 livestream: How to watch the company’s biggest event of the year live
8 years, 11 months ago

Facebook F8 livestream: How to watch the company’s biggest event of the year live

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Facebook is about to hold the biggest event of its year, and reveal …

Facebook users can broadcast live from 60 countries now
8 years, 11 months ago

Facebook users can broadcast live from 60 countries now

Firstpost  

Facebook is rearranging the notification panel on its mobile apps in an effort to broaden the audience creating, watching and reacting to live video on its social network. Menlo Park: Facebook is rearranging the notification panel on its mobile apps in an effort to broaden the audience creating, watching and reacting to live video on its social network. The shift …

Facebook Is Becoming Less Like a Newspaper … and More Like Cable News
9 years, 1 month ago

Facebook Is Becoming Less Like a Newspaper … and More Like Cable News

Slate  

Facebook’s News Feed long functioned as a sort of personalized newspaper—a collection of stories, pictures, and status updates from the past day or two, available for you to review at any time. But there was a problem: By treating live videos just like other videos, the News Feed algorithm was too often serving them to people after the live stream …

Facebook Is Already Using Its Artificial Intelligence On You
9 years, 1 month ago

Facebook Is Already Using Its Artificial Intelligence On You

Huff Post  

Facebook You probably don't realize it, but if you use Facebook, you're working with artificial intelligence every day. "So much of what you do on Facebook -- you open up your app, you open up your News Feed, and there are thousands of things that are going on in your world, and we need to figure out what's interesting," Zuckerberg …

Facebook falls back in war on YouTube
9 years, 3 months ago

Facebook falls back in war on YouTube

Live Mint  

New York: Over the past year or so, Facebook has made increasingly aggressive attempts to chip away at YouTube’s dominance in the world of short Internet videos. But since Sandvine measures data in the evenings, Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu may also look deceptively popular compared with Facebook, which doesn’t have the same nighttime spike. Big increases in the number of …

Facebook is bringing live video streaming and automatic photo collages to your mobile
9 years, 3 months ago

Facebook is bringing live video streaming and automatic photo collages to your mobile

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The other is Live Video, which unsurprisingly lets users stream Live Video from their phones to Facebook, …

Facebook begins testing feed to watch and share videos
9 years, 5 months ago

Facebook begins testing feed to watch and share videos

Firstpost  

In a move to take on video sharing site YouTube, Facebook is testing a new feature that will allow people to go and exclusively discover, watch and share videos that are relevant to them. We look forward to seeing how people use it to discover, watch and share videos with their friends,” Cathcart wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. …

YouTube Is the Sleeping Giant of Livestreaming
9 years, 7 months ago

YouTube Is the Sleeping Giant of Livestreaming

Wired  

The first game of the German soccer season kicked off on Friday. So far, the Internet's biggest video site has stood silently as Periscope, Meerkat, and countless rumored products from Facebook have made livestreaming video into a powerful new medium. "Broadly speaking, we think about YouTube being synonymous with video," Manuel Bronstein says. He wants YouTube to be suited to …

Facebook rolls out live video streaming feature, but just for celebrities | IndiaTV News
9 years, 7 months ago

Facebook rolls out live video streaming feature, but just for celebrities | IndiaTV News

India TV News  

London: Celebrities now have another reason to connect with their fans on social networking site Facebook through a new live-streaming video service. The new app, called Live, allows celebrities to host their own interactive shows to interact with fans while broadcasting live video, Daily Mail reported. "We are excited to introduce a new way for you to connect and interact …

YouTube's new growth strategy: Mobile, mobile, mobile
9 years, 8 months ago

YouTube's new growth strategy: Mobile, mobile, mobile

Firstpost  

Google-owned YouTube is seeing accelerating growth despite competition from Facebook and others in video, YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki said Monday. Wojcicki said she is pleased with the growth in people watching videos on the service, and that YouTube still stands apart even though Facebook claims to have more video views. “Our watch time year on year is growing over …

Facebook does not pose a threat, says YouTube
9 years, 8 months ago

Facebook does not pose a threat, says YouTube

Firstpost  

Is Facebook really eating into YouTube’s territory? He said Facebook’s and other players’ arrival shows that online video is “becoming mainstream”, but it would not derail the YouTube juggernaut. Recently, it muscled further into YouTube’s territory with a trial to share advertising revenue with video creators who publish on the social network. According to a previous report, Facebook confirmed that …

Drowning in a cacophony of content as YouTube turns 10
9 years, 11 months ago

Drowning in a cacophony of content as YouTube turns 10

Al Jazeera  

Revolutionary video-sharing site marks a decade of life, but some question whether it has bettered humanity. Hours later, graphic footage was uploaded to the video-sharing website YouTube and Soltan rapidly became a cause célèbre of the Green Movement and Iran’s worst unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Many smartphone users were tracked, tortured and imprisoned by a repressive regime that …

Obama seeks broader audience through YouTube personalities
10 years, 2 months ago

Obama seeks broader audience through YouTube personalities

India TV News  

Washington: President Barack Obama picked three of the most popular YouTube content creators for an interview on Thursday, hoping to reach an audience typically not tuned to the daily give and take of Washington and its politics. She offered the president three samples of her trademark green lipstick as gifts for his daughters—and for the woman she called Obama's “first …

Facebook Moves One Step Closer to Becoming a Video Empire
10 years, 2 months ago

Facebook Moves One Step Closer to Becoming a Video Empire

Wired  

As online video heats up, Facebook is doubling down on its effort to capture a bigger share of viewers' attention. On Thursday, the company announced it had acquired QuickFire Networks, a video startup that uses proprietary technology to support high-quality videos without eating up users’ bandwidth. Since June 2014, the company says, Facebook has delivered more than 1 billion video …

Instagram video could be Facebook's only announcement at upcoming event – Firstpost
11 years, 9 months ago

Instagram video could be Facebook's only announcement at upcoming event – Firstpost

Firstpost  

Rumours of Instagram getting a video feature are growing stronger by the day, even as Facebook prepares for its all-important event on June 20. Rumours of Instagram getting Vine-like video capabilities are growing stronger by the day, even as Facebook prepares for its all-important event on June 20. Reports are now suggesting that the addition of video capacity to Facebook-owned …

YouTube: A mating ground for media and citizen journalists
12 years, 8 months ago

YouTube: A mating ground for media and citizen journalists

Firstpost  

A new study has found that YouTube is emerging as a major platform for news, one to which viewers increasingly turn for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism on Monday released their examination of 15 months of the most popular news videos on the site. It found …

YouTube: A mating ground for media and citizen journalists
12 years, 8 months ago

YouTube: A mating ground for media and citizen journalists

Firstpost  

A new study has found that YouTube is emerging as a major platform for news, one to which viewers increasingly turn for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism on Monday released their examination of 15 months of the most popular news videos on the site. It found …

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