A good number of us get news on our pages form referring sites and all.. Face book has come up with a good news as you will also be getting news feeds directly from them instead of getting from referring sites that might not be complete until you go to the site. The bad news is that for those sites, people might no longer visit your site as Facebook will be giving out news feed to every Facebooker. lol.
As the Times pointed out, this move "would represent a leap of faith for news organizations accustomed to keeping their readers within their own ecosystems, as well as accumulating valuable data on them."
Why would a company trade page views for Facebook views? According to theTimes, Facebook might sweeten the deal by offering a slice of the revenue generated by the ads that run alongside news stories on Facebook.
The social network is expected to begin testing the new format over the coming months, with initial partners like The New York Times, BuzzFeed, and National Geographic; others may be added as discussions continue.
A Facebook spokeswoman declined to comment to PCMag.
Facebook has experimented with news over the years. Last year, it launched FB Newswire, an aggregation service powered by Storyful and aimed at journalists and newsrooms looking for content to share and embed into their own articles.
As of late 2013, almost half of adult Facebook users reportedly got their news from the social media site. A survey by the Pew Research Center suggested most people stumbled upon stories and information after visiting the site for another reason. Only 5 percent said Facebook is the most important way they obtain news.
Long-form articles, however, are slowly being replaced by short videos, which are much more lucrative for ad sales, and apparently very popular among Web surfers. Early this year, Facebook announced a 75 percent increase in the number of video posts per user globally; it skyrocketed to 94 percent in the U.S. alone. Averaging more than 1 billion view views per day, the site also counts more than 50 percent of people in the U.S. coming back to Facebook each day to watch at least one video.
Meanwhile, during this week's F8 developer conference, the company may introduce expanded tools to place video ads inside non-Facebook applications, theTimes said.
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