Have you noticed more video on your Facebook feed lately?

Unless you’ve been keeping your eyes shut while browsing the social network, of course you have. We have all known for a while now that Facebook is upping it’s video game, but we finally have more details about the social network’s strategy. So what does the company have planned?

In IT Blogwatch, we sit back and watch.

So what is happening? Natalie Jarvey has the background:

Facebook has been dabbling in video since 2014, placing a new emphasis on the format last year when it began to fund…video broadcasts from…partners such as BuzzFeed and the New York Times.
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Now, the social network has said that it will pay video producers to create longer, higher quality scripted and unscripted projects…Facebook executives…see this effort as a way to “kickstart the ecosystem” as it builds up its video coffers.

But exactly what form will that take going forward? Michelle Castillo has the details:

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