Hey Everyone,

Every Monday Big Live brings you an interesting morsel from the world of social media news. Today this article by Liz Shannon Miller over at Newteevee.com caught our eye: http://gigaom.com/video/facebook-web-originals/

“What’s intriguing about Facebook distribution is that it’s not really a platform tailor-made for watching video; there’s no embedding and the sharing interface is clunky. Plus, in the case of Aim High, requiring the audience to be logged-in Facebook users is an issue — while Facebook does claim to have more than 800 million active users, limiting access to viewers with Facebook accounts does mean losing a few viewers. The conventional wisdom of web content these days, after all, is that the easier it is for someone to find and watch your show, the more likely it will happen.”

We also believe that Facebook is going to be a great way to organize audiences around web series and tv shows over the next few years, but Miller has a point that Facebook’s video options are extremely limited as far as user engagement, sharing, embedding, and the like. 

Good thing Big Live has a great user-friendly Facebook widget, where you can have your video playing right on your Facebook fan page, complete with a chatroom to keep viewers engaged and watching, and embed button for easy, instantaneous sharing to anywhere on the web. As always, for free. If you want one, just ask us! 

Or, if you want to see one in action, check out Megan & Liz’s widget here: http://www.facebook.com/MeganandLiz?sk=app_101056733337667