Blog: Facebook video

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Facebook Has Got An Instagram Problem

Mark Mulligan

1 Feb 2018

Facebook

Facebook messenger

facebook music

Mark Zuckerberg dropped a bit of bombshell during the Q4 2017 earnings call. He announced that Facebook daily active users (DAUs) have fallen across some key markets, including the US. COO Sheryl Sandberg...

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Why Facebook Is Getting Into TV

Tim Mulligan

10 May 2017

Facebook

Facebook video

live TV

Last week there was a lot of coverage around the 51% increase in year on year ad revenue and the additional 80 million monthly active users added to Facebook in Q1 2017. However last week also saw the...

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Facebook The Media Company: If It Looks Like A Duck

Mark Mulligan

22 Dec 2016

Facebook

Facebook Media Company

facebook media strategy

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...

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Chart Of The Week: Facebook Video

Mark Mulligan

10 Apr 2016

Chart Of The Week

Facebook video

Online video

Facebook and YouTube have a lot in common. They both have in excess of a billion users, both have become part of the internet furniture and both have transitioned from disruptive challenger to incumbent....

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MIDiA Chart Of The Week: YouTube Subscribers

Mark Mulligan

18 Jan 2016

Chart Of The Week

Facebook

Facebook video

Video is eating the world and as it does so YouTube’s role is evolving in a subtle but crucial way. YouTube used to be the undisputed home of short form video but that role is now challenged by Facebook...

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MIDiA Chart Of The Week: User Generated Broadcast

Mark Mulligan

7 Dec 2015

Chart Of The Week

Facebook video

live streaming

The early adopter buzz around the launches of the live video streaming apps Meerkat and Twitter-acquired Persicope have so far failed to translate into meaningful real world adoption. But these User Generated...

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MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Facebook Video

Mark Mulligan

6 Nov 2015

Data Point Of The Day

Facebook

Facebook video

31% of US adultswatch Facebook Video weekly. Facebook's decision to prioritize video in user's newfeeds and initate a three second autoplay default setting for native videos has led to a quardupling of...

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