Is Facebook becoming the new YouTube or is it already become?

During the F8 conference, Facebook announced many new features, including features that will number one social networking a fierce competitor to YouTube.

It's been a while that Facebook is trying to boost her videos to make it the number one online platform for sharing such content.

If Facebook videos have always existed, they were limited in terms of features and seemed to be more appropriate to share personal photos with the circle of friends. But recent updates made by Facebook show that it wants to hunt on YouTube lands, and thus become a platform for the media and for creators. During the F8 conference, Facebook announced a number of interesting features.

New features for the API

Those who use the API Video Facebook can now restrict the audience of a video in relation to the age, location and gender, post a video on a page without scattering on the news feed, set a expiration date for a video, playlist and manage videos posted before on the pages, customize the thumbnail of a video and activate subtitles in different languages.

Integrating a Facebook video (and only video)

Prior to integrate a Facebook video, it was necessary to integrate the entire publication. And this is not always very aesthetic. But now, Facebook has a video player that can be embedded on your websites and blogs.

360 videos

After YouTube, it was the turn of a number of social networks to announce support for so-called "spherical" videos. These videos will appear on the newsfeed. The peculiarity of a video 360 is that it will allow the user to interact like Street View, but with video content. And of course, these interactive video will also be available on the Oculus Rift.