Facebook launches live events app Venue

Venue, which provides a platform for fans to engage with expert commentary in real time, follows the release of FB’s music-focused, TikTok-rival app Collab last week

News By IQ | 1 June 2020

Screenshots from Venue commentary on Nascar races © Facebook

Facebook’s new product experimentation team (NPE) has launched a new live event-focused app, Venue, a second screen for fans and expert commentators to discuss events in real time.

The release of Venue comes days after Facebook announced Collab, a short-form music video app that allows users to overlay as many as three recordings at a time to create remote musical collaborations.

Described as “the companion app to live events”, Venue acts as an interactive second screen for fans to…

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