This remastered 70mm film, shot at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix, is the best racing you'll watch this weekend.

Users are still spending more time watching TikToks. But last year, adult users of FB spent more than HALF their time on the platform watching videos. Adult users of IG are expected to spend about 60% of their time on the platform watching video in 2024.

Average time spent per day by adults using social platforms in 2024
FB: 32 mins
⁠IG: 35 mins
TikTok: 54 mins
Time spent watching Reels is predicted to grow 9.4% this year

It’s going video-first by posting every other platform’s videos last.

X continues to boost misleading data, which erodes confidence in all of its reported figures.

Instagram rollt ein Update für das Live Streaming aus. Mit diesem lassen sich künftig Livestreams auf der Plattform mittels Tools von Drittanbieter auch über Desktop PCs streamen.

Meta’s announced some new video enhancements for Facebook, as it continues to evolve from a social app into an entertainment platform, in line with broader industry trends. The platform renames its „Watch“-Tab, pushes videos in a curated and machine learning-effort and provide some new tools for Reels as well as create an inter-connection between Instagram and Facebook to comment on them.

People now have the ability to upload HDR videos from their phone’s camera roll to Reels and to have that video playback in full HDR

The company implemented the xHE-AAC codec, which is a new type of audio encoding that corrects for variable audio levels, while also maximizing playback consistency.

Tumblr has been working on a live video feature which, up until now, has been on mobile only.

This includes trendy templates, a greater length limit, and a feature that allows for memories to be integrated.

It got up from 30B in April 2022. The growth is a bright spot for Alphabet as it faces fierce competition from TikTok and declining ad revenue in 2022. Also, YouTube began sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators starting February 1.

German study shows also, that Reels with sentimental music have a higher reach, energetic music leads to more interactions

Tech giant’s group director, Sophie Neary, says younger users are going all-in on video content.

Social media users now spend 3.1 billion hours daily watching user-generated content on apps like TikTok and YouTube - and this has an impact of how Creators, from photographers to any other, work.

TikTok has quietly added video-scrubbing thumbnails to its platform this week as the company continues to beef up its video features.

YouTube predicts we'll see more travel content in 2023, and an influx of videos about AI-generated content.

Given as little as a single word, QuickVid chooses a background video from a library, writes a script and keywords, overlays images generated by DALL-E 2 and adds a synthetic voiceover and background music from YouTube’s royalty-free music library.