fb Will let you Bookmark videos With “Watch Later” Button
watch out, YouTube.
July 16, 2015
In but some other play to outmaneuver YouTube, facebook is now testing a “Watch Later” feature for videos on its pc version, TechCrunch reviews.
fb customers will quickly begin seeing a “Watch Later” button once they hover over the upper-right-hand corner of a video, very similar to the one that’s already provided on YouTube. The videos will then show up in the “Saved” tab, which already collects any posts or articles you bookmark for later with the Pocket-type “shop” button. the speculation, as all the time, is to encourage customers to binge on videos with out leaving the facebook ecosystem.
As facebook reported again in April, the social network now attracts greater than four billion video views per day. it can be no surprise, then, that the corporate is slowly build up its arsenal of video instruments: past this month, facebook announced it used to be partnering with video creators to share advert revenue, which became out to be its first step in convincing labels to post track movies instantly on the platform.
In March, facebook also adopted Netflix’s put up-play feature, which means any video you watch will seamlessly lead into different beneficial movies as soon as it ends.
[by means of TechCrunch]
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