Facebook tests new feature allowing videos to float when users scroll

Facebook Newsroom Meihong Wang, Engineering Manager, and Yue Zhuo, Software Engineer

We have previously made updates to News Feed that take into account whether someone has watched a video and for how long they watched it, so people who tend to watch videos in News Feed will see more videos higher up in their News Feed, and people who watch fewer videos will see videos further down. With this update, we want to show people more of the types of videos they want to see, and fewer of the videos they don’t...

We are now taking into account more interactions with videos that we have learned indicate whether someone found that video interesting, such as choosing to turn on sound, making the video full screen, and enabling high definition. So if you turn the volume up or make the video full screen, we have updated News Feed to infer you liked the video and will show you similar videos higher up in your News Feed. We have found that this helps us show people more videos that they are interested in.