New Threat To Television: Facebook Live

Facebook Live Could Render TV Obsolete, Completely!

Nitish Shaw | July 17, 2016

It is a globally agreeable fact that most of the content viewership is fast moving from the TV as a medium to the internet. While the television alone held its USP of live viewership until earlier, this year, now things have changed.
In April, Facebook introduced its “live” feature and was shortly followed by Twitter on the same. No one was quite clear on what this new feature will be used for by the masses. As it turns out, there is no limit to it. It started off with celebrities broadcasting to their fans (there have been quite a few news interviews as well), and now it has spread to what social media is massively contributing to- dealing with social issues.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/livemap/

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