Facebook looks to take on Twitch and YouTube as its new gaming app launches worldwide. Here's what you need to know about Facebook Gaming.
The app has already been available for testing in Southeast Asia and Latin America for the past 18 months. It offers a similar experience to the Gaming tab on Facebook's website, which lets users broadcast themselves or watch a streamer playing games instead.
Facebook Gaming also features a function called "Go Live," which lets users livestream mobile games directly from their smartphone to Facebook. This eliminates the need for dedicated third-party software and hardware which people usually require to broadcast themselves playing games on platforms like Twitch.
For now, Facebook isn't including ads in the app and monetization is pretty limited. It does however let people earn money with so-called "stars" which let fans make one-time payments. The company says it will explore more monetization options over time.version in the works for a later date. Facebook lags behind Twitch and YouTube when it comes to live video game broadcasts. In the first three months of 2020, the firm's game streaming platform clocked almost 554 million hours of viewing time, compared to 1.1 billion for YouTube and 3.1 billion for Twitch, according toBut the company says over 700 million of its users already interact with gaming content on the main Facebook app.
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