Watch Facebook videos together with the new Watch party feature added by Facebook, Netflix needs to follow
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If we see the last 15 years shifts in technology, the most appropriate conclusion we could drive is the engagement of social media. The presence of social media especially Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in our daily life have decreased the distance within the world.
In addition to it, Facebook is trying one more way to keep us engaged.
A few years ago, Hotstar was considered a best online platform to watch live streaming, YouTube was always great. But, nowadays “NETFLIX” is getting more attention. Netflix is an American top-media-service provider founded in 1997 and came into action in the last decade.
Netflix has expanded itself in the production of films and TV series with 125 million+ subscribers. Today Netflix is operated in approximately 126 countries. The entertainment dominance of Netflix is the world's finest and business generating Dot-com-ventures.
Unbeaten and unsurpassable video-on-demand service of Netflix attracts the majority of its audience. And now Facebook has found a way to engage us first on Facebook than on Netflix.
Netflix and Facebook Partnership
Last year in September Facebook announced its investment of $1 billion on TV’s original video content. This $1 billion was just a small shell of investment as compared to Netflix’s $6 billion and Amazon’s $4.5 billion on TV.
Facebook has taken a lead in dominating the media production house where Netflix stand first due to its original content. To establish higher grounds of productions for Netflix, Facebook now will stream the live videos of Netflix with their new features.
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Facebook’s new feature, “Watch Party”
Allows user simultaneously to watch Facebook videos together. The host Netflix will add videos and controls the playback. On the other hand, Facebook will be syncing the streams allowing users to comment and react on the videos.
For now, watch parties are constrained to only Facebook groups but not the pages. The company first started testing Watch Party in January 2018.
People love to enjoy the content with their family and friends. As we said above, technology giant FB has already invested a lot in the watched content of Netflix. It depends upon the people’s choice to watch videos on random Facebook groups.
Anyone in the group can suggest videos and designate it to the hosts. When videos are watched online in a group, a lot conversation happens while adding reviews on the ongoing video.
Upcoming Features of Facebook Watch Party
While testing the watch party feature, Facebook found parties running for more than 10 hours. Moreover, the following points were the results on which Facebook has worked extensively to new features of watch party.
- Facebook video watch party allows participants to pop in and out throughout the day.
- Find a video on the Facebook, join it to see and invite others in real time for interaction.
- Crowdsourcing feature allows users of the watch party group to generate the funding on videos having a social message and cause for humanity.
- Co-hosting feature lets the host designate a co-host who will continue to add videos and keep the party going.
- Watch party feature is not limited to the Facebook group alone but it will be made available to pages also.
Facebook Live AI will prohibit violent content and will flag off the offensive and problematic videos. While streaming Facebook/Netflix videos along with AI, a team of several members will also monitor the video published online.
Well, Watch Party feature is not new when compared to Rabbit, Showgoers, Kik and Google Hangouts.
Actually, before the watch party, there were several other online platforms to watch live videos together from different places. And fortunately, it was never difficult to access them. However, purposely made watch party groups were no in trend. Whereas, it all started with Netflix when they introduced Netflix party.
Here we have the best 5 methods to attend a watch party online.
5 Methods to Attend Watch Party
- Rabbit allows you to join live rooms at their website to watch what others are watching. After joining a room, videos are played on the main portion of the browser and live chatting is done on the right-hand side.
Unfortunately, Netflix doesn’t work properly with rabbit if your friends are outside of USA.
- Showgoer is a Google Chrome extension. More importantly, every member of Showgoer must have a Netflix account and the extension installed in Chrome. You can watch through Netflix videos and could share a URL link with anyone. This extension will even work for those friends who live outside the USA.
- KIK is a best online video chat services for so many years. It is best to watch Netflix Videos with friends being apart. KIK can share photos, also has a library of GIFs.
- Google Hangouts works across many devices both on iOS and Android. You can make video and voice calls too. If you have synced Netflix video through Google Hangouts then in comparison to Rabbit, Showgoer, and KIK it is quick and easy to operate.
- Netflix Party is an extension on Google Chrome which automatically Netflix Videos Playback. Once you install the extension, simply open the Netflix browser and start playing video. Moreover, this extension will sync the same video at the same time with your friends.
But still, we consider Facebook’s Watch Party feature only because of its crowdsourcing and co-hosting features. Altogether, the launch of FB’s group watching feature for Netflix is based on building a shared viewed experience. Therefore, Facebook firmly believes;
“Watch Party is going to be the next best step in bringing movie nights together for everyone.”
Facebook's New 'Watch Party' Let's You Watch Videos With Friends
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