BBC News to launch weekly show on Facebook Watch

BBC News to launch weekly show on Facebook Watch

BBC News is launching a weekly news programme on Facebook Watch. Set to launch later in 2018, Cut Through The Noise will be the social media platform’s first funded non-US news programme. It is to focus on a different issue each week and will be set in BBC News’ Washington bureau or elsewhere in the […]

Facebook Watch rolls out globally in bid to take on YouTube

Facebook Watch rolls out globally in bid to take on YouTube

Facebook Watch, the social network’s streaming video platform, is getting its global rollout, just over a year after the service launched in the US. Content will include familiar names as well as original programming and exclusive series. The content lineup includes entertainment, news and sports programs, and aims to position Facebook as a more legitimate […]

eSports comes to Facebook following exclusive deal with ESL

eSports comes to Facebook following exclusive deal with ESL

Facebook has signed an exclusive deal with ESL, the world’s largest eSports organisation, to bring streaming coverage of two of the top eSports competitions exclusively to Facebook this year. One of ESL’s flagship circuits, ESL One, will be broadcast on Facebook starting this week with the ESL One Genting 2018 event in Malaysia. A weekly […]