Facebook Unveils Several Video Product Updates, Including 'Live' Rehearsals, Pre-Scheduled 'Watch Parties' - Tubefilter
Facebook announced a number of updates to its myriad video products on Monday at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), a trade show for the media and tech industries that is currently being held in in Amsterdam. First, Techcrunch reports, Facebook is testing a new ‘rehearsal’ feature for Facebook 'Pages' (though not personal profiles) that will enable users to broadcast live to administrators and editors in order to test new setups, features, and formats before officially going live. Techcrunch notes that QVC has been testing this feature given that the company streams live on Facebook for hundreds of hours every month. At the same time, Facebook will give publishers the option to edit the beginning and end of a Live videos in order to get rid of dead air, and the social network has doubled the maximum stream time limit to eight hours. Facebook has also announced updates to its co-viewing feature, Watch Party, which enables communities to interact while consuming content en masse. Page
17 Sep 2019 ... Techcrunch notes that QVC has been testing this feature given that the ... Pages can now schedule Watch Parties in advance, post 'replays' of ...