Tidninger og andre publishers må snart betale Facebook for å bli inkludert i Facebooks feed.
Facebook er i en testfase med 2-deling av feeden.
Det ligger i kortene at Facebook kan komme til å kreve betaling fra publishers for å bli inkludert i feeden. De publishers (tidninger og andre) som ikke betaler for å bli inkludert i feeden, kan oppleve kraftig fall i antall besøk på sine nettsteder viser foreløpig testing (se om Slovakia i sitatet nedenfor).
Altså får tidninger og andre publishers valget mellom økte kostnader eller lavere inntekter:
«Publishers might have to start paying Facebook if they want anyone to see their stories
Facebook’s latest test should terrify publishers.
Facebook may make it harder for people to see publishers’ stories, unless those publishers pay to promote them.
As part of a new test in six countries, Facebook is taking content from publishers and businesses out of its main feed. Instead, those posts will exist in a separate, hard-to-find feed that Facebook recently launched for discovering new stuff, called the ‘Explore Feed’.
The Explore Feed’s purpose is to show users posts from people or publishers they don’t follow, in the hope that they’ll find new stuff they wouldn’t otherwise see. In some countries, though, the social giant is also testing putting all publisher content in this secondary feed, even if you do follow those publishers.
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Though Facebook claims it doesn’t plan to roll this out globally right now, the fact that Facebook is even testing it should be terrifying for publishers, almost all of whom rely heavily on Facebook’s News Feed for distribution. The new Explore Feed is not easy to find. It’s buried on the lefthand rail on Facebook’s web version, or in the “Explore” tab on the iOS app. In my case, it took three taps from the News Feed in order to find it.
Putting publisher content that far from the main feed would be a big deal. In Slovakia, for example, where this new test is under way, a journalist wrote on Medium over the weekend that organic reach for publishers fell by 'two-thirds' after Facebook moved Page posts to the Explore Feed. The Medium post was titled, ‘Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have ever seen.’»
De 6 test-landene er Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala og Kambodja.
Link:
https://www.recode.net/2017/10/23/16525192/facebook-explore-feed-news-media-audience-reach-traffic-test