Is Facebook going to reinvent TV with Facebook Watch? Well, it's trying

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Is Facebook going to reinvent TV with Facebook Watch? Well, it's trying
July 26, 2018 by Kelly Lawler, Usa Today
 

Facebook is aiming for your TV-viewing time, not just the hours you spend mindlessly scrolling through baby pictures and news links.

Facebook Watch, the social network's YouTube-like platform for original series and user-created video content, made its debut appearance at the Television Critics Association press tour Wednesday to make the case for Facebook's version of TV, and, much like the platform, it was a mixed bag.

Fidji Simo, VP of Product for Video, and Ricky Van Veen, Head of Global Creative Strategy, discussed how the platform has grown ninefold since it was launched in August of 2017, hyping the success of series like Jada Pinkett Smith's talk show "Red Table Talk," and "SKAM Austin," a teen drama based on the popular Norwegian series.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-07-facebook-reinvent-tv.html#jCp

[truth_seeker]

There does need to be competition for YouTube.

It would be most wonderful if some wealthy conservative person or entity, invested in one competitor.


Alex Jones is the subject of censorship at YouTube. Others (conservative) claim they are "demonetized," meaning the revenue they enjoy, is cut back or cut off.