Facebook is moving beyond its existing Live video media partnerships to license exclusive shows from TV studios and other content producers.
The company has begun the initial stages of the talks, which will see it explore the introduction of scripted shows, game shows and sports broadcasts on its social network, Recode reports. Facebook’s head of global creative strategy Ricky Van Veen, who is best known for co-founding the viral video site CollegeHumor, is leading the initiative.
Veen said the following in a statement: “Our goal is to kick-start an ecosystem of partner content for the tab, so we’re exploring funding some seed video content, including original and licensed scripted, unscripted, and sports content, that takes advantage of mobile and the social interaction unique to Facebook. Our goal is to show people what is possible on the platform and learn as we continue to work with video partners around the world.”
The Facebook video tab can be found tucked away in the side-bar next to the News Feed. It also boasts Live video, generated by users and Pages — the aforementioned media partnerships have seen it ink multimillion-dollar Live content deals with the likes of BuzzFeed, CNN, and The New York Times.
Chances are, if Facebook can lure some big names to its platform, it will expand upon the video tab by giving it more prominence. It could even copy Twitter and build its own dedicated video app for third-party products and connected devices.
For now, Facebook has reportedly refrained from drawing up a budget for its video venture. Instead of investing billions of dollars into original programming (in the vein of Netflix and Amazon), it’s taking more of an experimental approach by considering a range of formats, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke to Recode.
However — alongside its claims that video will be the dominant form of content on its website within the next five years — the talks give us an indication of the range of content it plans to serve to its users.
Discord is trying to push more visibility on the internet for some of its biggest communities, and there's a good chance your messages could end up in a Google Search. The platform is preparing to make conversations from certain public servers searchable on the web, so there's a privacy setting you might want to check before the rollout begins.
According to Discord's official announcement, the changes will roll out in two stages. Starting November 16, qualifying servers will have public web pages featuring automated summaries of conversations. By mid-December, individual messages from eligible public channels could also appear word-for-word in Google and other search engines.
You just opened X and started typing your thoughts. Imagine the jump scare when a hand suddenly pops up on your screen, pointing at the promote button. It doesn’t say a word and simply points. For a growing number of X users, this isn’t a made-up scenario but something they have been seeing since yesterday, and very few of them are amused.
Most of us have learned to tune out the usual in-app upsells, whether it’s a glowing upgrade banner or a pop-up about a premium plan. A floating hand hovering over your draft is much harder to ignore, and that’s probably the whole point.
Scroll through any app for five minutes, and you’ll find someone maxxing something. Their skin, their sleep, their protein intake, even their Friday night on the couch. That little suffix has been everywhere this year, and now it has a trophy to show for it. In a recent announcement, Dictionary.com named maxxing its 2026 Word of the Year.
What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?