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Facebook Aims to Bring The Fun Back Into Music

Mark Mulligan
Facebook has announced its long mooted move into music. As widely anticipated the service offering focuses on using music to add context to social experiences. The official blog outlines two key use cases: Adding music to videosDoing live stream lip syncs in Facebook Live videos For now the roll out is limited, which will give Facebook the opportunity to hone the service and learn from the behaviour of a relatively narrow user group.
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Facebook The Media Company: If It Looks Like A Duck

Mark Mulligan
Yesterday Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally confirmed that Facebook is a media company , not a traditional one, but a media company nonetheless. This is something we've been thinking about a lot at MIDiA, so much so in fact that we have just publishedan entire report on the subject: "Facebook The Media Company: If It Looks Like A Duck" The report forms part of MIDiA's new Paid Content service, which we will be telling you more about early in the new year.
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