YouTube is a great platform where people can find videos of almost any kind. Twitch is specially designed to be distributed video games. And Facebook has been eating part of the toys for years. Now, he will introduce his own your use of to broadcast mobile video game to continue to find the world where it continues to be and third place, with 2.5 billion users on social networks.
Facebook plans to post Facebook Gaming tomorrow Monday April 20th, according to New York Times online media. The app will not only allow you to watch slow and live video game videos, but video writers will also have their own platform to create. The app will be available on Android and later on iOS when "Apple lets you."
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Facebook Gaming: a new social media video streaming app
The app, which has already been tested in Southeast Asia and Latin America for the past year and a half, comes at a crucial moment for Facebook: many millions of people are trapped in their homes without much help because of the coronavirus, and advertising revenue has fallen. However, while Facebook's intention is to place ads on videos, this will not happen immediately after launch; They initially aim to get a large enough audience.
We would not expect that Facebook did not advance to the increasingly important economic sector – it is estimated that gaming It will handle $ 160 billion by the time 2020 – and that has been particularly effective these months. In fact, the original issue was not scheduled until June 2020, but Facebook ends up fast.
However, this app is actually a video segment addition to the social network, only it will live differently as at the time the camera or Facebook Paper program did, the application failed to be intended as a mobile magazine. However, with the Go Live functionality of Facebook Gaming it aims to make things a lot easier: you can do to broadcast from your mobile phone in just a few simple steps, has made the process much easier than its competitor applications, while Twitch, for example, needs to install other applications or connect the phone to a computer.
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Facebook told the NYT to be more focused on calls: «On the phone, when the app is open and running, it should be a priority. You can't do anything else with your mobile phone, which is very powerful (not like on a computer, you can leave the background video and do other things).
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