Facebook tries to take on YouTube, draws some of its top content producers: WSJ

Facebook tries to take on YouTube, draws some of its top content producers: WSJFacebook has approached some of YouTube's biggest content producers to get them to distribute their videos on the social network, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Facebook seems to be taking on Google's video site by trying to lure its biggest content producers to the social network, the Journal said.

Popular content from Walt Disney's Maker Studios and Collective Digital Studio can already be found on Facebook via the site's news feed and on individual creator's pages, the report said.

One of YouTube's viral series 'The Annoying Orange' by Collective has a dedicated page on the social network.



"Our partnerships team regularly has conversations with content creators about how to best utilize all of Facebook's offerings, video included," a Facebook spokeswoman told the Journal.                                                                                     SUMIT KUMAR SINGH                                      PGDM 3RD SEM