David Moth says, “Facebook has been pushing hard to dislodge YouTube as the king of social video in 2014 and so far it’s made excellent headway.

And for the cynics among you – yes, a lot of it has to do with autoplay videos.

According to comScore, in August Facebook achieved a billion more desktop video views than YouTube, though that obviously fails to take into account mobile views.

So how has it achieved this? At Le Web today Facebook’s product director in charge of video, Fidji Simo, discussed the network’s strategy in this area”.

Facebook: Our video strategy is all about content discovery

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