The failure of the Facebook podcast platform: it shuts down a year after it was born

Aim will stop offering its podcast service Facebook In the coming weeks, just a year after its launch, it’s to focus its efforts on “more meaningful” experiences.

The company announced the new podcast feature in April 2021. live sound rooms It will first begin testing in the United States in June in Groups over Facebook and Messenger, as an alternative to the Clubhouse audio social network, arriving in Spain in October. Now, Bloomberg reports that the platform will stop allowing users to add podcasts to its service from this week on, confirmed to Meta partners.

With the cancellation of this service, the technology company Soundbites will stop serving its content formatShort creative sound clips born to express short phrases, jokes, jokes or poems.

Meta said in a statement. “constantly evaluates functions” It proposes to focus on “more meaningful experiences,” but hasn’t detailed what it’s currently working on.

Neither podcasts nor Soundbites have specified when they will end these services, as they simply stated: it will be “in the next few weeks”, although Bloomberg states that it will be June 3rd. To accomplish this shutdown, Facebook does not plan to inform users that this service will no longer be available, but instead hopes that this service will be available. editors decide how they want to break this news to other users.

Moreover, live sound rooms will be integrated into Facebook Liveso that social network users who want to use this platform will be able to choose whether they will hold video conferences with audio only or video.

Source: Informacion

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