Facebook’s Master Plan to Win the Game Streaming War

It’s not just about throwing massive contracts at top streaming talent

Chris Stokel-Walker
OneZero
Published in
4 min readFeb 7, 2020

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WWhen Facebook launched its gaming creator program in January 2018, the reaction was muted. Facebook Watch, the company’s attempt to take on YouTube, had largely flopped, even in spite of increasingly desperate attempts to get users to click on the tab (the…

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Chris Stokel-Walker
OneZero

UK-based freelancer for The Guardian, The Economist, BuzzFeed News, the BBC and more. Tell me your story, or get me to write for you: stokel@gmail.com