The social networking site now boasts 250 million users, but has yet to make a single dollar in profit. Five years after its inception, a look at whether it can last another five.
Facebook Video: Now Serving 1 Billion Views A Month, Including This Amazing Zuck Impression
There's also one nice piece of data tucked away in the video: Facebook saw over 1 billion video views last month. That's still far less than that 1.2 billion YouTube sees every day, but it undoubtedly makes Facebook one of the top video sharing sites on the web (it's also the largest photo sharing site).
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More companies are asking for followers and friends, Rosen says, but even more want lots of experience in social media. "It's only a matter of seconds, minutes or hours before marketers look at what is a natural phenomenon like viral marketing and seek to institutionalize it," she says. "Once we see signs of brand loyalty and engagement, we try to create that artificially."
YouTube Insight: Share Detailed Stats For Your Videos
When you upload a video to YouTube, you get access to YouTube Insight, a powerful analytics tool that shows you a bunch of interesting metrics about your video: who's watching it, where, its ratings, total number of views and the like.
This info, however, was -- until now -- hidden from the rest of the general population, but not any more. By switching it on in the the privacy settings for your videos (located under "My Account") you can now share this data with everyone. It'll become visible in the "Statistics & Data" section, located under the video.

