Facebook steps up competition with YouTube with ad-supported videos
by Stuart Dredge from on (#D2JY)
Social network already has 4bn views a day of its native clips, but helping their creators to make money is its next ambition
Videos uploaded directly to Facebook are watched more than 4bn times a day according to the social network. Now it wants their uploaders to be able to make money from those videos.
The social network is testing a new "suggested videos" feature in its news feed, which will see videos from partner publishers and creators recommended to Facebook users, with advertisements running in between them.
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