YouTube to Facebook

Convert YouTube links into native Facebook video posts

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Convert YouTube links into native Facebook video posts

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Have you given any thought to how this might affect YouTube content creators and the current issue with people freebooting YouTube videos to Facebook?

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10yr ago

YouTube to Facebook

Maker

@orestnazar to be honest, we didn't get that deep. We said "hey, posting lonk to FB from YT currently sucks" and @mariodabek said "I think I can solve that quickly." When he did, we decided to make it free to get feedback. So let me ask you...how do you think it will affect the Freetoobing issue?

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10yr ago

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@benjaminefox @mariodabek The issue comes when a user who does not own a youtube video and re-uploads it to Facebook which effectively steals views away from the content creator. For people trying to make a living creating content for Youtube this has become a really big issue unfortunately. Here is a really good link describing the issue using Reddit as an example.

Just something to keep in mind. Seems like a nice tool though.

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10yr ago

YouTube to Facebook

Maker

@orestnazar @mariodabek With our tool, the originally linked YouTube video gets the play credit. The video is not uploaded to Facebook. So unless the poster is re-uploading content to YouTube first and then posting to FB using YT2FB, the original content creator will get the benefit.

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10yr ago

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I've been looking for a solution for this problem, @benjaminefox Question... if I try to boost this post, will Facebook have any issue with it being a redirect? Is it a redirect? Will my boost get accepted as far you you know? Thanks!

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10yr ago

YouTube to Facebook

Maker

@mjirout Good question. (@joshdance this might pertain to your question as well) What we're doing is rebuilding YouTube metadata using Facebook's best practices. This let's us create the HD Facebook compatible snippets. Customization of Thumbnails, Titles & Descriptions will allow content creators to share the same video 10 different ways customized for their audience. So while I can't directly answer your questions about Facebook having an "issue", because we don't speak for their compliance dept., I don't think it will be an issue.

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10yr ago

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@benjaminefox - ok, thanks... just posted here: https://www.facebook.com/ShipMat... I won't be able to test a "boost" with this post, because I added a thumbnail with a play button, which Facebook will reject. I'll test a boost with no play button next time and will report back.

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10yr ago

YouTube to Facebook

Maker

@mjirout Thank you very much.

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10yr ago

great idea. but doesn't work. Facebook throttles this even more than a youtube link. (i would imagine because youtube is at least a some what trusted source to them) and your "yt2fb" link is so new. I ran two tests, on pages with over 300,000 likes (and pretty good engagement) my engagement was 2,000 impressions, 19 likes, and 3 comments. on the other, i got 5,000 impressions, 5 comments, and 30 likes.

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10yr ago

@benjaminefox: what's your thinking on this?

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10yr ago

YouTube to Facebook

Maker

@gbaroth @robingood it's an interesting set of stats and thank you for sharing them. Our intention here was to put out a quick MVP and see what happened. Now that we're seeing this as part of the feedback and results, we can try to address it. Obviously, if we can't improve on tbis then YT2FB may have to remain a free tool that does something cool for the odd funny post. If we can improve those results though...LOOK OUT! Also FYI we just pushed v2 which includes native playback so no more redirects to YouTube. That may help.

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10yr ago

@benjaminefox @gbaroth Some Matteo Flora from Italy claims that your tool effect will be flattened soon because it breaks Facebook TOS. Is there any truth in what he claims? https://www.facebook.com/cristia...

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10yr ago

Great job, guys! It would be awesome though if you could get rid of the in-between screen (http://d.pr/i/1dEST), which appears for a split second.

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10yr ago

YouTube to Facebook

Maker

@arkhanguelski Thanks. We'll take a look at that. Might be a server resource issue. Edit: We've addressed this @arkhanguelski, should be much better now.

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10yr ago

@arkhanguelski agreed

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10yr ago

Referred Club

Has anyone else posted to a FB page with YT2FB yet? I did today and my reach was about 15% that of a very similar post with a YouTube link. I'm wondering if Facebook is throttling because of the redirect or other. Would love to hear what others experienced.

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10yr ago

Amazing product! Would love to know more about how it plays with ads and if autoplay could be enabled (&autoplay=1) Also, any timeframe on the Pro features?

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10yr ago

YouTube to Facebook

Maker

Hey Product Hunters! I’m Ben, Co-Founder of FlowPress, creators of YT2FB (YouTube 2 Facebook). We're really excited to launch YT2FB today! If you want to share YouTube links on Facebook then you know it will get a smaller, uglier preview and much less real estate than if the video is natively uploaded to Facebook. YT2FB is a super simple app that takes care of this. Your YouTube links will get the same amount of real estate and the same beautiful preview that Facebook video links get. Just paste your YouTube link into YT2FB.com, click Convert, and share your new unique link on Facebook! Currently we are working on adding the ability to: create Custom Thumbnails; Custom Titles; Custom Descriptions; Shared Analytics; and more. If you'd like to request more features or have any questions, hit us with your feedback :)

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10yr ago

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