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Facebook Desktop Video Surpasses YouTube
- Beet.TV, Monday, October 13, 2014 1:55 PM
Beet.TV has reported that Facebook surpassed YouTube in August 2014 when it came to desktop video views.
“In the month of August, on desktop viewing, [Facebook] delivered about a billion more views than YouTube -- which is pretty amazing,” Gian Fulgoni, co-founder and chairman emeritus of comScore told Beet.TV.
Beet.TV notes that Google’s YouTube still bests Facebook when counting all devices, but says that Facebook “has come a long way in the last year, announcing in September it now gets a billion video views per day, with views having increased 50% from May through July of this year.”
The post also makes note of Facebook’s recent LiveRail acquisition, writing that the social media company purchased the video ad tech company “as it plans to monetize those views.”
