Facebook Autoplay Video

In 2013, when Facebook was looking to grow video engagement in News Feed, we solved it with a very simple, but incredibly powerful solution: Just Play.

Evolved to watch

Removing the Play button on videos led to an immediate 10x increase in time watching videos, because thanks to hundreds of millions of years of evolution of the eye and brain, we are innately drawn in by motion.

Sometimes the most powerful solutions are the simplest ones, and come from removing elements, rather than building new ones.

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