Facebook, the largest social network on the planet, announced a few weeks ago a new platform for viewing series and movies, named Watch. Then Facebook announced that a variety of series and films will be released there for the users of the social network from certain countries, and this week the first content appears on the network.
Facebook will display a very varied range of movies and TV series from a variety of content producers, but it is only available in the US and a few other countries around the world. We're talking here about shows featuring various types of food from a variety of countries, various interesting gadgets that people can try, shows with advice on relationships between people and many other interesting topics on Facebook.
Facebook also collaborates with Jessica Alba for a show that aims to give people advice on healthy eating, but there are many others. Facebook commissioned other shows that teach people how to cook different types of food for different lifestyles, food generating a lot of interest in the social network, as I already told you a few weeks ago.
Facebook launches the first series and movies in Watch
Facebook is also launching a fictional series called Refiner29, the first episodes of which will be released on Watch on Thursday. In total, those at Facebook will have content from no less than 30 producers at the time of the launch of the Watch platform, and here we are most likely talking about hundreds of shows and series, or movies, that Facebook users will be able to see.
Among these producers, Facebook includes trusts such as National Geographic and other TV channels with content about nature, all with the idea of attracting as many people as possible. Facebook tried to create as varied a range of content types as possible for its Watch platform, and after the first people will be able to try the platform we will also find out if everything that was thought is good.
By launching Watch, Facebook competes directly with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Apple and more, but that's only because this is the trend in the IT industry now. Many people want to see movies, shows and TV series directly on the Internet, but fragmentation forces many people to have subscriptions to various services to see everything they want, the situation itself not being so great.