Facebook said its nascent Watch service is attracting more than 400 million monthly viewers who spend at least a minute checking out videos, 75 million of whom spend an average of 20 minutes watching shows every day. The self-reported data reflects strong momentum for the year-old service which, prior to its global launch in August, reported just 50 million monthly users in the U.S.
“We’re seeing that people are regularly coming back to catch up on the videos they care about and watching for longer periods of time,” Fidji Simo, Facebook’s head of video, wrote today in a blog post updating the Facebook Watch strategy.
Facebook released updated Watch data Thursday along with news of second-season renewals for four original series including Kerry Washington’s teen dram Five Points and the Elizabeth Olsen-fronted Sorry For Your Loss. The numbers come after news stories raised questions about whether the video platform was...
“We’re seeing that people are regularly coming back to catch up on the videos they care about and watching for longer periods of time,” Fidji Simo, Facebook’s head of video, wrote today in a blog post updating the Facebook Watch strategy.
Facebook released updated Watch data Thursday along with news of second-season renewals for four original series including Kerry Washington’s teen dram Five Points and the Elizabeth Olsen-fronted Sorry For Your Loss. The numbers come after news stories raised questions about whether the video platform was...
- 12/13/2018
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
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