One year ago Thursday, Facebook made its Facebook Live livestreaming feature available to all users, and the social network marked the anniversary of that rollout by announcing that one out of every five videos on Facebook is now a Facebook Live broadcast.
Facebook added that daily watch time for Facebook Live broadcasts has skyrocketed by more than four times over the past year.
Vice president of product Fidji Simo also noted the launch anniversary with, appropriately, a Facebook Live video of her own, adding in her post:
A year ago today, we made it possible for people around the world to share live video on Facebook.
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