Facebook becomes a radio – Want …

Facebook becomes, now, a kind of radio. After working hard in 2016 to strengthen its video offering through the direct on the web, the social network has decided to integrate another functionality linked to the live stream: Live Audio. Available, at the moment, only for a limited group of editors, this feature lets you start a real direct audio-only inside the platform, just like a real radio on the web. Features that should come for all in the course of the next year.

a Live Audio was thought in function of some specific needs. Facebook, first of all, she knew that some publishers prefer to tell some stories through the use of words alone rather than with movies. In addition, the Live Audio are perfect for all those who live in areas that are sparsely accessed by the broadband. Transmit live audio and receive them, will therefore be less onerous from the point of view of the connectivity of the network. To listen to the live audio on Facebook, users iOS will be forced to keep open the application, a need definitely uncomfortable, while other users Android are not related to this obligation is being able to close the app and continue to listen to the live audio while doing other things.

a Live Audio could become a killer application for the interviews for the spread of a certain type of news and other types of content. Among the first partners who have experimented with this new feature, the social network highlights the BBC World Service, LBC, and Harper Collins.

Facebook, therefore, continues to invest in value-added services that can improve the interaction between users of the platform. The Live Video definitely had revolutionized the way people communicate within the social network and probably the Live Audio will also meet another band of content creators, more linked to the traditional tools of radio. Facebook, in fact, can potentially become the home of new forms of entertainment radio users who listen to the interviews or the music played within the social network while they work or perform other tasks.