Facebook now lets you restrict who views videos by age and gender. As Facebook takes aim at YouTube with a growing video platform, the social network is giving advertisers and publishers more say in who sees their videos.
The company said Tuesday that video creators will now be able to restrict their audience by age and gender, in addition to the location and language options it already offered. It's also rolling out a new "secret" mode, which makes videos playable only to those with a direct link, much like YouTube's "unlisted" function. Video publishers can now opt to turn off third-party embedding, or house videos only under a "videos" tab separate from the News Feed. The company's video business has exploded in the past year, quadrupling its traffic. In total, Facebook videos accrue more than 4 billion views a day — though it's important to note that Facebook counts one view if you watch three seconds of a video, which is a much more lenient standard than YouTube's roughly 30 seconds.
New Tools for Surfacing Conversations on Facebook. By Justin Osofsky, VP, Media Partnerships and Online Operations If there is something interesting going on, people are talking about it on Facebook.
From favorite television shows to sporting events to the latest news; the conversations are happening on Facebook. Last week’s kick-off of the NFL season garnered over 20 million likes, comments, and shares on Facebook by over 8 million people. Over the past few months, we have rolled out a series of products aimed at surfacing the public conversations happening on Facebook including hashtags, embedded posts, and trending topics. We are committed to building features that improve the experience of discovering and participating in conversations about things happening in the world right now, including entertainment, sports, politics and news. Starting today, selected news organizations can begin to integrate Facebook conversations into their broadcasts or coverage by displaying public posts of real-time activity about any given topic.
Convio. Myspace. Causes. Popular Facebook app: All talk, little cash - Washington Post- m. Exercise for the Reader: Facebook Member Stats « Travels With My. [Update: before you get too far into these numbers, you might like to check out this updated post, which gives a more accurate breakdown of genders - the country totals remain the same] Out of interest I went through the Facebook ad platform to pull together some stats on relative numbers of members from each country.
Not surprisingly, the US represents over 40% of the total membership at just over 18 million. Some surprises though (at least to me), with Turkey in 5th place. There’s quite a heavy bias to the ladies too, with female members making up just over 63% of the total population. I’m not able to see what criteria FB uses to present these numbers, so these may be members with just a basic profile, or those who have also filled in some additional personal details too. Full picture is below. [update - see my comment in the comments too :-) ] Like this: Like Loading...