With mobile home tab MIA, Facebook’s desktop-only Live Map offers best view of global broadcasts

From political stump speeches to local TV news to piracy to porn, there’s a lot of programming being broadcast through Facebook Live.

Tim Peterson on October 6, 2016

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From political stump speeches to local TV news to piracy to porn, there’s a lot of programming being broadcast through Facebook Live. But you’d have a hard time finding it on your phone.

In April, Facebook said it would add a Live tab to its mobile app’s home page for people to browse for broadcasts that wouldn’t likely appear in their news feeds. That hasn’t happened. But on desktop, Facebook’s Live Map offers the best view of what people around the world are broadcasting. Here’s a look.

If you want to try out Facebook’s Live Map for yourself, you can visit facebook.com/livemap.

About The Author

Tim Peterson

Tim Peterson, Third Door Media’s Social Media Reporter, has been covering the digital marketing industry since 2011. He has reported for Advertising Age, Adweek and Direct Marketing News. A born-and-raised Angeleno who graduated from New York University, he currently lives in Los Angeles. He has broken stories on Snapchat’s ad plans, Hulu founding CEO Jason Kilar’s attempt to take on YouTube and the assemblage of Amazon’s ad-tech stack; analyzed YouTube’s programming strategy, Facebook’s ad-tech ambitions and ad blocking’s rise; and documented digital video’s biggest annual event VidCon, BuzzFeed’s branded video production process and Snapchat Discover’s ad load six months after launch. He has also developed tools to monitor brands’ early adoption of live-streaming apps, compare Yahoo’s and Google’s search designs and examine the NFL’s YouTube and Facebook video strategies.

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