Facebook's New Watch Tab Does Not Look Like a You. Tube Killer at All. On Wednesday, Facebook announced the rollout of Watch, what it is calling “a new platform for shows on Facebook.” It’s yet another foray by the social media company from the business of distributing other people’s content into producing and licensing its own, and differs from its existing video content in that it looks a lot like Netflix or You. Tube’s apps. Watch content will be “produced exclusively for it by partners,” who will take 5.

That content will be spread via channels like “Most Talked About” or “What’s Making People Laugh” categories that will be determined by how users interact with it. Watch will offer both a live comment feed where users can interact with the wider Facebook audience—something that already exists with Facebook Live streams—and the ability to “participate in a dedicated Facebook Group for the show.”Here’s a few shots of what it will look like on various formats, as shown in the press release. It definitely looks slick and polished, but even this initial glimpse hints that Watch is not the You. Tube or Snapchat killer Facebook wants it to be. Facebook’s launch programming for the new video section is, uh, not exactly the A- list talent one might think a company worth hundreds of billions of dollars could secure. It includes Nas Daily, a show from a guy who quit his job to make one- minute travel videos “together with his fans from around the world” (a preview clip is titled “We Bought 1.

Burgers”); a live show where motivational speaker Gabby Bernstein will interact with Facebook users; a cooking show where children will attempt to make a recipe; and in probably Facebook’s biggest grab, one live game of Major League Baseball a week. Another show mentioned in the launch is Returning the Favor, where host Mike Rowe “finds people doing something extraordinary for their community, tells the world about it, and in turn does something extraordinary for them.” Yet another focuses on “the passion and community of big- time high school football in Texas.”There’s a few more interesting options, like a NASA science show, and a live Nat Geo Wild safari program. But none of this seems particularly edgy or hard- hitting. It’s the definition of safe. This is the kind of generic filler that forms so much of You. Tube’s bread and butter—but if that’s all they have lined up, what could possibly lure people from You.

Tube itself, which has long been pumping out much more interesting content tailored to virtually every niche interest and community? Facebook’s content strategy is almost certainly to prove functionality and its ability to drive users to the service, and then try to lure other content producers to the service. But like a number of Facebook products before it, it’s unclear why publishers would want to use the platform. For example, Facebook Live already allows publishers to stream content like protests or post- Game of Thrones commentary live to their pages. They can also push regular video content wherever they want without an exclusive deal, whether it’s Facebook, Twitter or You.

YouTube stars Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson—better known as “Diamond” and “Silk,” respectively—were invited to the Commerce Department’s.

Tube, and all three of these channels can be embedded elsewhere. Another goal could be to compete with Snapchat, which lots of publishers have started using to push short- form video content. But it’s not clear how Watch will get those users to return by replicating some of Snapchat’s functionality, especially since the latter company’s video content tends to be in reality or unscripted formats which seem nicely in tune with its overall aesthetic.

This looks a lot like Facebook’s attempt to push publishers into the same kind of walled garden they built with Instant Articles. Large sections of the media were spooked it was a prelude to Facebook choking off traffic to other websites—why would Facebook let you link out when they can force you to live in the garden, right?—but the concept has stalled somewhat, as Instant wasn’t driving enough additional traffic to offset its lower advertising revenue. Facebook has a tendency to build platforms it just loses interest in. Instant is still around, but in a diminished role as Facebook tweaked its algorithm to drive users to friends’ posts, video content and most recently another story format to compete with Snapchat. In the past few days, it’s killed off its standalone Facebook Groups app and Lifestage, a “high schoolers only” Snapchat knockoff that ended up ranked #1,3. App Store’s social media category.

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It’s certainly possible Watch will help Facebook swallow more and more of the internet into its ever- expanding gullet. But supplying a nice- looking video platform does not automatically create demand, and Facebook has repeatedly stumbled to create a business model that will keep both users and publishers inside of it instead of clicking out. We’ll see. No word on whether Donald Trump’s “real news” program will get a slot, but we doubt it.[Facebook]* Correction: Wednesday, not Tuesday.

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But by Tuesday morning they were gone. You. Tube stars Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson—better known as “Diamond” and “Silk,” respectively—were invited to the Commerce Department’s headquarters this week, apparently to discuss ways in which they could expand their business. The pair runs a political blog aimed at promoting President Trump and denigrating his critics.

The Commerce Department revealed Diamond and Silk’s visit in a photo posted on the department’s official Twitter account, which said the duo had met with the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) to “discuss how to grow their business and build their brand.” The tweet was deleted hours later. A Commerce spokesperson told Gizmodo the tweet was deleted “out of an abundance of caution” as the department was not clear it had received permission to post the photo. Diamond and Silk were here to talk about minority business development,” the spokesperson said. They reached out to the Acting National Director of MBDA, [whom] they had met previously, to discuss how best to help the minority business community.”The spokesperson declined to elaborate on how the Commerce Department was helping Diamond and Silk “build their brand.” At present, they offer only two products in their online store, both Trump- branded pins. Monday’s meeting was arranged by Chris Garcia, a former Trump campaign advisor whom the president appointed acting head of the MBDA this year. The meeting would seem perfectly innocent, were it not for the fact that Diamond and Silk were paid Trump campaign consultants. The Trump campaign denied paying Diamond and Silk for their regular on- stage appearances at political rallies.

But an amendment to the campaign’s 2. FEC report, released in May 2. You. Tube stars were in fact cut a check shortly after the election: a meager $1,2. Questions had been raised by reporters last summer over what Trump aides brushed off as coincidence: Ace Specialties, a company the Trump campaign reportedly paid more than $2 million for campaign swag, also supplied the pro- Trump merchandise sold on Diamond and Silk’s website. A campaign spokesperson told ABC News in April 2. Diamond and Silk “have never been paid by the campaign, which you can verify in our FEC reports.

There is no connection with Ace. We very much appreciate the unwavering support and enthusiasm, from Diamond and Silk.”Daniel Scavino, a Trump campaign advisor who now serves as the director of White House social media and assistant to the president, first invited the bloggers to attend a Republican debate in November 2. Watch Jack Frost 2: Revenge Of The Mutant Killer Snowman Instanmovie on this page. Politico reports. Two months later, Trump introduced Diamond and Silk at an event in Iowa by noting, “They’ve become very famous and very rich.” Later asked by a Politico reporter what Trump meant when he said they’d grown “very rich,” Diamond replied: “Ask Donald.”The pair went on to “stump for Trump” in Mississippi, South Carolina, and Iowa, drawing energetic responses from crowds of 1. Days before the Nov. Lara Trump, the president’s daughter- in- law, at a North Carolina event, where they accused then- candidate Hillary Clinton of considering herself a “slave master.”While their ties to Trump are often portrayed as a mere chance encounter, the pair now frequently rub elbows with the conservative elite. They’ve landed repeat appearances on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program as well as his radio show.

In April, they attended the wedding of White House political aide Omarosa Manigault, a quiet affair at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Now after having been declared paid Trump campaign consultants, a former Trump campaign staffer is ushering the You.

Tube celebrities into a federal office building, allegedly to help expand their Trump- themed business—the very existence of which remains curious, given Trump’s propensity for suing people who try to profit off his name, even when their name also happens to be Trump.