Facebook Watch's Biggest Hurdles -- The Motley Fool

referring to While the company is clearly willing to spend big money on advertising its new video platform, it might be overlooking the most obvious advertising platform for the service. Facebook doesn't seem to advertise Facebook Watch within Facebook itself. Tentpole contentOn top of the 50% of U.S. Facebook users who've never heard of Facebook Watch, another 24% have heard of it, but have never used it. Once Facebook overcomes the hurdles of increasing awareness of Watch and increasing the reasons people should use Watch, it seems to have good success. Three out of five Watch users stream something at least once per week, according to TDG's survey.

Better Buy: MercadoLibre (MELI) vs. Facebook (FB) -- The Motley Fool

Company P/E Ratio P/FCF Ratio P/S Ratio PEG Ratio MercadoLibre N/A 108 9.0 N/A Facebook 22 23 8.0 1.1Here, again, Facebook comes out ahead. MercadoLibre is spending lots of money right now to build out its fulfillment network. It also benefits from the network effect, as more people visiting the platform to buy stuff means more merchants listing their wares on MercadoLibre. And, as mentioned above, MercadoLibre is spending hand over fist to build out its fulfillment capabilities and offer subsidized shipping to customers. They both deserve your attention, but right now, Facebook appears to be the better buy.

Facebook Won't Move Forward With Selling Pay TV Subscriptions -- The Motley Fool

according to Speculation emerged last week that Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) could be building a pay-TV platform that could be part of Watch, the social networking giant's nascent video platform. It now sounds like Facebook has decided not to move forward with the plan. The level of sustainable engagement that Facebook can generate over time will be much more telling. Even YouTube is reverting back to monetizing original content with ads next year, while still selling premium subscriptions with other perks. Third-party premium channels are universally available across just about all major platforms, so trying to sell subscriptions wouldn't really differentiate Facebook Watch either.

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