Do you use Facebook Watch? Facebook Watch is Facebook's online video platform, essentially a YouTube on Facebook.

Facebook is constantly expanding the offering on Facebook Watch. To this end, the platform works with various media companies and content providers. We look for content that moves people.

Facebook says it specifically enters into partnerships in the areas of entertainment, news and sports and recently entered into a new collaboration with the German publishing houses Axel Springer, Burda and Gruner + Jahr.

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These partners will provide content for Facebook Watch in the future. The publishers will have full editorial responsibility for the program content.

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A press release from Facebook reads:

Together we would like to investigate which stories, content and formats people are particularly interested in and what new ways of consuming news might look like. In addition to the content from German publishing houses, there will be comparable offerings from media from France, Great Britain and Sweden.

The content for Facebook Watch 

Here is an overview of the planned broadcast formats of the German partners:

  • BILD DAILY , Axel Springer: In the daily news show, BILD journalists report from the studio or on site about current topics in the areas of politics, business, entertainment, sport and lifestyle.
  • WELT News , Axel Springer: The topics with the most opinions and images from WELT Digital - a daily video format on politics, business and society
  • Focus Life Hacks , Burda: In this interactive show, viewers can use Facebook Watch to ask questions about everyday problems to a rotating group of guests - including vloggers and celebrities.
  • Focus News Stories , Burda: A weekly news program that covers the most important topics from politics, sport, internet and lifestyle.
  • Klaudia Saves The World , Burda: This multi-part series accompanies Klaudia Giez, known from “Germany's Next Top Model”, on her journey around the world. Klaudia meets influential people who are committed to solving complex problems in our modern society.
  • Superluminar – The Social Knowledge Format, G+J: A weekly science show with initially 15 episodes, presented by Hannes Holtermann.
  • Football, my life & me, G+J: In this multi-part program, football legends answer the questions of Philipp Köster, editor-in-chief of the football magazine 11 FREUNDE.
  • Local Heroes – Food Heroes Germany , G+J: A weekly series, initially comprising 15 episodes, that goes on a culinary journey through Germany, presents gastronomic highlights and looks behind the scenes.
  • Back to Back Celebrity Cooking , celebrities put their cooking skills to the test under the guidance of an experienced professional chef. Initially 15 episodes are planned.

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