Vivienne Chow Facebook Watch is to expand Paid Online Events into 24 markets, including Hong Kong, in the coming weeks following an exponential growth in viewership amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.Saurabh Doshi, Facebook’s head of entertainment partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region, announced the social media giant’s plans at Hong Kong FilMart on Monday.Paid Online Events allows users to limit access and content distribution to those who have registered to the event, positioning the service somewhere between Vimeo and Zoom.
Paid Online Events was only rolled out in beta form last year.Facebook, which has 2.79 billion users around the world, is also making In-stream Ads available to content creators who have met the platform’s.
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