With Facebook’s f8 conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement that Facebook has partnered with more than a dozen entertainment brands including Netflix and Hulu. These partnerships are to bring television and movie-watching experience to Facebook. Others partnered with Facebook include IMDb, Flixster, DirecTV and Miso.
Not only will this bring a new avenue of shows and movies to be watched, it will hopefully draw others into watching and consuming more TV and movies on Facebook. A Facebook ticker will show real-time watching activities of a user’s friends along with watching activities being posted on your Facebook Timeline for your friends to see.
The Netflix Facebook application will work in 44 of the 45 countries where Netflix is available, but U.S. users will not have access to the applications at launch due to legal constraints currently under review.
