Facebook Video Views Spiked 50% Between May and July

Site rolls out better tracking, targeted algorithms this week

If you use Facebook, you've probably noticed your newsfeed is now filled with autoplaying videos. That's no accident.

Video views on Facebook jumped 50 percent between May and July with an average of 1 billion daily views since June, thanks to a video push from the social network. People are watching more than 65 percent of those videos on mobile devices. And this week, Variety reports, the site is rolling out better video analytics tools.

Now, in addition to seeing how many people watch your video, you can see the number of full video views, the number of unique views, the average duration of video views and audience retention numbers.

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