Facebook announces a hub "Fb.gg" that summarizes game delivery videos, and why stick to game distribution?

Facebook is a hub dedicated to game streaming "Fb.gg"We have launched a page specialized in" game video "for users who want streaming distribution of game play and users who want to watch delivery.

Fb.gg is Facebook's game streaming hub for stealing Fortnite streamers away from Twitch - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/7/17439928/facebook-game-streaming-hub-fortnite-streamers-twitch-youtube

Facebook launches Fb.gg gaming video hub to compete with Twitch | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/07/facebook-launches-fb-gg-gaming-video-hub-to-compete-with-twitch/

"Fb.gg" makes it easier to discover "game videos delivered on Facebook", "users who are distributing games on Facebook", "games related groups" and the like which existed so far This is a new page for. It will be used to check information on games and to find game distributors who you did not know without crowding the user's news feed.

Since you can access it by entering "Fb.gg" in the address bar of the browser, it is called "Fb.gg" from overseas media.

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Facebook has created the "Game Creator Pilot Program" to be a unique partner program for users who distribute games on Facebook in January 2018AnnouncementDid. This is a program created to deprive users from Twitch, a popular game distribution platform, and YouTube tooSimilar strategiesI am trying to create a partner program and to introduce game distributors to my service.

The reason Facebook is trying to pull its popular game distributor into service is because there are many users watching game distribution, many of the viewers are young people, and young people have great value for advertisers .

Many of the videos delivered by Fb.gg at the time of article creation are live play of popular game "Fort Knight". Fort Knight is currently one of the most popular games in the world and has become the game that gets the most attention for months on Twitch. Approximately 3000 people on Fb.gg are positively playing live performance of Fort Knight and he seems to have about 210,000 viewers. This figure is bigger than I imagined,Number of Fort Knight viewers on TwitchIt is clear that Facebook has secretly focused on game distribution as it is close to the number.

It is unknown how Fb.gg will affect competing services such as Twitch and YouTube, but Facebook is a game companyBlizzard · EntertainmentWhenPartnership concludedAdvance into the game distribution field. recentlyMobile instant game platformAdded live streaming component to the live streaming of games such as "Dota 2" and "Counter-Strike GO"ESL OneIt was affiliated with.