Combining Social media and video can create a powerful cocktail.

Whether you are a media company syndicating your content to social media channels, an OTT company wanting to distribute content on as many platforms as possible or a brand marketer using social profiles to build awareness and foster customer relationships, video and social media can work together to attend to wide- ranging business goals. Social network has become an important part of our daily life and a unique platform for online video monetizing. With more than 800 million users worldwide, Facebook is one of the most influential social networks. It is a platform full of opportunities for you to grow your business, broaden your target audience, gain new users and enhance revenue. Furthermore the user- base in place has proven they are willing to spend money through the service and have been doing so in many ways already.

About the MediaMaker Facebook VOD

The MediaMaker Facebook VOD application is a unique way for you to drive your business revenue to a new level, boost and expand your audience on the web as well as to find new and innovative ways to interact and engage with your users.

One of the core goals of the MediaMaker Facebook VOD application is to provide high quality entertainment as well as utility value in an up-and-coming market of online streaming of premium long form content.

With the MediaMaker Facebook VOD Application, users can...

• See what their friends and family like and recommend and chat or recommend the videos in real-time while watching
• Interact: comment, share and like your videos on Facebook
• Watch movies or TV series in HD-quality directly on Facebook, the playback experience can be within Facebook or on full-screen.

While you and your business gets to

• Monetize: Realize new revenue streams by allowing your viewers to rent videos from your content with easily renting of videos by using, for instance, credit cards for payment
• Boost viewer engagement and interact with your audience
• Attract new target audience and strengthen and build your brand

Xstream developes a state-of-the-art Video on Demand (VOD) Application for Facebook, a Facebook VOD application. It is a customized application enabling you to add your online video content to your own branded app and page on Facebook, allowing your viewers to watch your content directly within the Facebook canvas. The app makes TV series and video easier to share, comment, like and monetize from, simplifying sharing and allows users to chat about what they’re watching in real-time.

Fans of your Facebook VOD, will have full control over the video while watching it through their Facebook account for up to 48 hours from purchase. Viewers may chose to watch it in full screen, pause the movie, and in addition, consumers will also have all the Facebook functionalities including the ability to post comments on the movie, interact with friends and family, share, chat and update their status.

The MediaMaker VOD application for Facebook includes the purchase flow for payment of content and enables your viewers to purchase or rent episodes of your online video content and pay by credit card. The content is automatically transcoded into your preferred format and protected by your preferred DRM solutions, Microsoft PlayReady, Widevine, Access, Irdeto or similar.

Did you know?

Average user spends an average 15 hours and 33 minutes on Facebook per month
Average user visits the site 40 times per month
Average user spends an 23 minutes (23:20 to be precise) on each visit
Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
200 million people access Facebook via a mobile device each day
More than 30 billion pieces of content are shared each day
Facebook generates a stunning 770 billion page views per month
70% of Facebook users come from outside the United States

Source: facebook.com