The social network Facebook has introduced an interactive video service Gameshow, designed for the production of game shows of various formats: polls, quizzes and other tasks. This is reported by TechCrunch.
Gameshow will be available to all authors and publishers of content on Facebook. The functionality of the service varies from embedding surveys inside videos to full-fledged quizzes with the ability to exclude participants from the game for incorrect answers. Quiz creators will also be able to write questions for them themselves and ask the rules of the game.
Facebook has already entered into a partnership with several companies that will release games in the Gameshow format. The California-based media company Fresno is launching the What in the box project, whose participants will guess the contents of the box, and the popular Internet media Buzzfeed will present the game Outside Your Bubble, where players must guess what their opponents are thinking.
Facebook is also testing the possibility of issuing cash prizes in the Confetti quiz, which was partnered with the Business Insider business publication. Judging by the description, the latest show will resemble the popular quiz HQ Trivia and its Russian counterpart “Clover” from VKontakte. As in the mentioned games, Confetti participants must answer a series of questions. They can see their friends’ answers, and the winners share the prize fund of each edition of the show.
According to TechCrunch, at the initial stage, Facebook does not plan to earn on Gameshow, taking part of the deductions from cash prizes in quizzes. However, the vice president of Facebook video production, Fiji Simo, said that this may change in the future.
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