‘Facebook Now Gets 3 Billion Video Views A Day’ – ‘Marketing Land’ Article
Martin Beck says, “Facebook’s video surge is looking more like a tidal wave.
In remarks during Facebook’s quarterly earnings call with investors today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook video is generating more than 3 billion views a day. That’s up from 1 billion daily views Facebook reported in September, a total that at the time prompted many to wonder if Facebook is becoming a challenger to YouTube.
Today’s news — a tripling of views in three months — won’t diminish that talk. Of course, YouTube is still the video king. It no longer reports daily views — the most recent number I could find was 4 billion in January 2012. That number has no doubt grown since then. Currently, YouTube says more than 6 billion hours are watched monthly, which by my math is about 12 billion minutes a day.
But knocking YouTube off its perch is not likely Facebook’s goal anyway. Zuckerberg said Facebook’s emphasis on video is a sign of the times. Five years ago, he said, most posts on Facebook were text with some photos. Now it’s mostly photos with some video and text”.
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