To celebrate 10 years of Creator Weekly, I’m sharing tech highlights from 2015 that still resonate 10 years later. This update was for the week ending July 11, 2015. Ten years ago this week Facebook launched a Suggested Video feed, sharing ad revenue with video publishers and highlighting professional videos from news media and other sources. Facebook's new video features and encouraging view metrics convinced newsrooms to "pivot to video". In retrospect that was a poor decision. Facebook Ad Revenue Sharing with Video Creators Re/Code headline July 1, 2015 In July 2015 Facebook launched a mobile Suggested Videos feed, full of professionally produced content and interspersed with ads. Creators whose videos were in the feed near an ad shared the ad revenue with Facebook. Here's how it worked: If someone watched a video in their News Feed in the Facebook mobile app,...
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