@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?
@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.
@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.
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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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.
@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.
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!
@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.
@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.
@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.
This is an excellent tool! I hope this goes viral as it should based on pure brilliance!
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