Facebook Video to Let You Restrict Viewers by Age and Gender
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| marketingland.com |
Facebook has announced that video creators will now be able
to restrict their viewers by age and gender. It’s also going to introduce a new
‘secret mode’ which makes videos invisible unless you have a direct URL – much like
YouTube’s ‘unlisted’ setting. This allows you to share a video privately or
embed it another site without it showing up on your page’s feed. A Video
Library will let users organise and update their videos all in one place with
customisable features like thumbnails and subtitles. You can also turn off
third party embedding and publishing to the News Feed.
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| thenextweb.com |
Earlier this month, Facebook began testing ads between videos
for a small group of companies that include Fox Sports, NBA, and Funny or Die. The
publishers receive 55% of ad revenues that run between their videos – the same
split as YouTube.
Ads that autoplay in the News Feed would put users off, so Facebook
is putting the ads between videos – banking on you watching more than one video
in one sitting. At the end of each video, a list of suggested videos picked by Facebook’s
algorithms will pop up. After every few videos you watch, an ad will play and
55% of profits will be allocated to the publishers of the videos that came before and after the ad. Facebook takes the remaining 45% cut.
Facebook seems to be on a mission to create a fully-fledged
video platform instead of letting videos float through the News Feed, and its massive
1.44 billion user base make it the first real threat to Google’s video-sharing
giant. This year, only 74% of online Super Bowl ad views were on YouTube – a drop of 20% since 2014 – while Facebook had a 25% share.
The updates will arrive to Page admins in the next few weeks.
Aaron Waterhouse
The updates will arrive to Page admins in the next few weeks.
Aaron Waterhouse
Aaron is a recent English graduate from Durham University who is now working as a content writer intern. An enthusiastic traveller, he hopes to become a journalist and report from around the world. Follow him @AaronAtSMF
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