Facebook tries to lure TV advertisers to purchase ads on "Watch"

Facebook announced last week that the criteria used to determine whether someone is a daily active visitor of its product "Watch" is by measuring whether a user spends at least 1 minute on the Watch platform per day, but Axios has confirmed that those 60 seconds do not need to be consecutive.

Why it matters: In order for Facebook to lure advertisers who typically buy ads on television to purchase video ads on Watch, it needs to convince them that the social platform's audience is just as engaged with shows on Watch. But TV networks measure a "view" of a show based on whether a show was watched for 60 consecutive seconds.