{"id":242234,"date":"2017-12-15T09:59:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T07:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=242234"},"modified":"2017-12-15T10:02:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T08:02:24","slug":"facebook-news-feed-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/242234-facebook-news-feed-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook News Feed update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is <a href=\"https:\/\/media.fb.com\/2017\/12\/14\/updates-to-video-distribution-and-monetization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>updating its News Feed ranking<\/strong><\/a> to improve the distribution of videos people want to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Videos from pages people look for will see greater distribution on the News Feed.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook will also show more videos in News Feed from popular publishers or creators.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s monetisation tools have also been upgraded, which will help partners to make more money.<\/p>\n<p>This includes testing pre-roll ads in Watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile pre-roll ads don\u2019t work well in News Feed, we think they will work well in Watch because it\u2019s a place where people visit and come back to with the intention to watch videos,\u201d said Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook will start with 6-second pre-roll ads.<\/p>\n<p>It is also updating its guidelines for Ad Breaks, and providing new performance metrics for publishers and creators.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/241896-facebook-to-pay-local-taxes-instead-of-moving-funds-through-ireland.html\">Facebook to pay local taxes instead of moving funds through Ireland<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is updating its News Feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":221973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-242234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242774,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242234\/revisions\/242774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}