{"id":43899,"date":"2013-06-20T18:20:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T16:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=43899"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:21:22","slug":"reports-of-facebook-video-service-heat-up-as-announcement-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/reports-of-facebook-video-service-heat-up-as-announcement-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports of Facebook video service heat up as announcement nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43902\" title=\"instagram nexus\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/instagram-device.jpg\" alt=\"instagram nexus\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/instagram-device.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/instagram-device-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/instagram-device-256x170.jpg 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/instagram-device-568x377.jpg 568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Last week, Facebook sent out a mysterious invitation for a product launch. We speculated at first that it would be a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/a-google-reader-replacement-from-facebook\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Reader replacement<\/a> but that turned out to be false. We then got reports that Facebook is looking to integrate <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/rumor-instagram-to-get-vine-like-video-capability\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vine-like video into Instagram<\/a>, its popular photo sharing app. This morning, <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> and its sister site, <em>All Things D<\/em>, are reporting that the announcement will in fact be for a video service. &#8220;Sources said that Thursday\u2019s event will solely be focused on Instagram\u2019s new video product and there will be no other Facebook product reveals<em>,<\/em>&#8221; writes <em>All Things D<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This move makes sense as Vine&#8217;s popularity is undeniable, topping the App Store and Play Store charts for free apps. Video has always been a forgotten feature for Facebook. By putting a time restriction of under 10 seconds and easy sharing using Instagram, Facebook could make short videos popular on its social network (for better or worse).<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a title=\"the wall street journal\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323300004578555891415047754.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, <a title=\"All Things D\" href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130618\/grabbing-for-a-vine-video-for-instagram-will-be-only-reveal-at-facebook-event-thursday\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All Things D<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Facebook sent out a mysterious invitation for a product launch. We speculated at first that it would be a Google Reader replacement but that turned out to be false. We then got reports that Facebook is looking to integrate Vine-like video into Instagram, its popular photo sharing app. This morning, The Wall Street &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/reports-of-facebook-video-service-heat-up-as-announcement-nears\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reports of Facebook video service heat up as announcement nears&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":43902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-43899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332726,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43899\/revisions\/332726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43899"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=43899"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=43899"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=43899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}