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Facebook Sees 1 Billion Daily Video Views, New Features Coming Soon

Maximum PC: The world's largest social playground is also becoming a popular hangout to watch videos. According to Fidji Simo, Facebook's Project Management Director of Video, the social network has been averaging over 1 billion video views on a daily basis since June. The majority of those video views are coming across mobile devices -- more than 65 percent, and that number could get higher since video on Facebook was built to be mobile first.

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gunnerforlife3516d ago

Hmm does this include when I'm scrolling down NY news feed and a video automatically starts playing... Talk about wasting my mbs...

Sahil3508d ago

Yeah every day I scroll down my News Feed in Facebook and videos start auto-playing.... that's a trend that needs to stop now and the worst part is Facebook counts it as VOLUNTARY video playing.

Autoplaying Videos should be banned from Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome.

Sahil3508d ago (Edited 3508d ago )

This boost in numbers is because they've forcibly migrated the mobile app from opt-in to opt-out. Very few people are aware that they must disable video autoplay or potentially face severe overage charges.

Sahil3508d ago

I highly doubt over 10 percent of those views were voluntary.

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Messenger will return the Facebook mobile app thanks to Meta

Messenger will return the Facebook mobile app thanks to Meta.

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How to change your birthday on Facebook

Now you can get happy birthday messages on your actual birthday instead of some random day.

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Facebook says to follow its livestream rules or be banned, this is your only warning

Facebook has to implement new rules for Facebook Live because people are literally the worst. Now, if you break the rules you'll receive a ban.

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