Facebook to share advertising revenue with video creators

Facebook is going to start paying for some video creators uploading the clips in the platform.

The company launch Suggested Video feed which curates a sequence of the clip, intersperse with the advert.

Videos which keep people watching for the longer will earn greater share of revenue from the ads, with the Facebook keeping the 45% for itself.

Facebook says it is user clock up four billions video view daily. One expert has said it pose a threat to the YouTube.

“Facebook aggressively moving into video space,” said by Eleni Marouli, advertising analyst at the IHS consultancy.

“In the December 2014, Facebook has surpassed YouTube in the views for first time & we predict YouTube shall lose share from the next year on wards.”

In the June, US broadcaster HBO has announced that it would stream some of programmed on the Facebook.

Offering cash could encourage more publisher to upload on the platform.

While the YouTube give content creators fifty-five percent of the revenue from the ads displayed before the videos, Facebook shall split the fifty-five percent it’s offering between the several creator.

“It is not an unusual or the generous model,” said by Ms. Marouli. “But we could see monetization battle between the Facebook & YouTube, to entice creator onto platform.”

Facebook has made $3.3 billion in  the ad revenue in first quarter of the 2015, Seventy-three percent of it from the mobile ads.

“Facebook is very adaptable,” said by Ms Marouli. “In the 2012, they had zero mobile ads revenue. In the two years, they have raise that over sixty percent of their ad income.

“Based on the forecasts, by the 2018 Facebook shall have twenty five percent of online video ad revenue in the Europe & more in US,” said by Ms Marouli.

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