Facebook has penned a £200 million deal to start broadcasting live events with its first foray into televised sports. GOOOOOAL Facebook has kept it no secret that they intend to get into broadcasting in a big way, hiring Eurosport CEO Peter Hutton for negotiating worldwide live sport streams. During the 2019-2020 season, Facebook nabbed live broadcast […]
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Facebook is looking at its biggest original program yet, as it gears forr a 13-episode Christiano Ronaldo docuseries. Ronaldo TV The program is being produced by Matador Content and Religion of Sports, founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, and Gotham Chopra’s production company Dirty Robber. The budget is a healthy US$10 million. The entire package is
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Facebook is honing in on developing an AI able to give users verbal directions – without the use of GPS. Robo walking buddy A team made up of University of Montreal researchers and the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research boffins have created a neural network capable of giving users plain language directions in real-time. The neural
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Now users can save their cherished Stories for all time thanks to the wide success of their video and photo linking medium. Re-use and recycle Facebook has rolled out an archive option for Facebook Stories, just like Instagram’s. To have a squiz launch of last year, user will notice a new indicator appearing above the
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Facebook is launching a new ad format that allows users to sample products displayed in an ad, thanks to some clever AR technology. Lookin’ good The spots look like standard Facebook ads, except users will notice the “Tap to Try it On” option so they can do virtually just that. Clicking the option will allow
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It seems Facebook is backpedaling on its blanket ban over cryptocurrency advertisements, in a stark reversal from its previous stance. No wooden nickels Having put an end to cryptocurrency ads as far back as January, Facebook is pivoting to allow crypto ads from pre-approved advertisers in certain circumstances. Originally, Facebook considered ads regarding coin offerings,
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In the wake of Free TV’s outcry, Facebook is having to pivot on its ad strategy by removing ‘fake news’ from all headlines. Facebook trying to join the plebs In an effort to steer the conversation away from its roll in the spread of erroneous information, Facebook has rolled out a series of ads declaring
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Facebook has released its latest guide to best practices for driving discussion around your videos. Keep on it Posting a video and seeking sweet Likes is a matter of engaging, and Facebook has four key points to follow. Engage with your audience in the comments: Facebook personalities, celebrities, and journalists like Bob Herzog have built
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Hello, Moves, and tbh are all being axed by Facebook due to low usage, and will be phased out over the coming weeks. Goodnight sweet princes(s) The apps on the chopping block represent various directions of testing that Facebook hasn’t been impressed with, or have simply been yielding poor results. Hello was launched for Android
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Now jumping between languages is easier than ever as Facebook brings its popular feature “suggestions from M” to Messenger. F8 reveal As suggestions from M continues to test positively, Facebook is making good on promises to export the new tool for translation on other platforms. At the latest F8 conference, Facebook announced that the translation
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