Facebook introduces 'trending videos' module in News Feed, redesigns 'trending articles' layout

Facebook has added a “trending videos” feature to highlight social video activity within News Feed, similar to how the social network promotes social reader articles.

Video applications like Socialcam, Viddy and Chill have grown quickly as the result of Open Graph integration, which shares users’ activity to the feed. The trending videos module organizes this activity into a single unit so that video stories do not dominate News Feed. Some social reader apps experienced a decline in monthly active users when Facebook introduced “trending articles” in April.

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