With Facebook set to announce healthy revenues in their third quarter earnings call later today, Tuesday’s Chart of the Day looks at one avenue that promises to be a key revenue stream for Facebook in the future – video.

Among those tracked by GWI, watching videos is now the second-most popular action on Facebook, trumped only by clicking the “like” button. Last month, exactly half of Facebook’s active user base say they did this – underlining the huge audience that this type of content can find.

Facebook might have some way to go before it can truly challenge YouTube as the go-to place for online videos but, in light of these figures, it’s not hard to see why the giant of the social networking world is putting so much emphasis on its video credentials.

 

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Felim is Senior Trends Manager at GWI. He oversees the Trends team who produce a wide range of off-the-shelf reports and infographics along with our Chart of the Day series. Moving to GWI after completing a PhD, Felim specializes in writing about online consumer behaviors and digital trends.

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