Facebook testing YouTube-like dedicated video hub

Facebook has been pushing video pretty hard lately and today is sharing its plans on making sure users have even more ways to watch tiny movies of their friends and from pages they follow. The most compelling of these experiments is a dedicated video tab that shows all the videos shared by folks and entities someone follows. It's bit like a cross between Instagram and YouTube within the social networking company's main app. This new feature will be tested on a small group of users to see how they respond to having almost instant access to videos without having to wade through political postings by family members and their friend's baby bump photos.

In addition to the dedicated tab, Facebook is also testing a bunch of other video features. One of these is Suggested Videos, a YouTube-like way of surfacing videos that you might find interesting based on what you're currently watching. It's also testing a way for folks to watch while still having access to the rest of the newsfeed. And finally, it's experimenting with a save button for those moments when you can't watch a clip and would like to bookmark it for later viewing.

Like Instant Articles, all of this adds up to more ways to keep you inside the Facebook experience. The fewer instances you're pushed out of the newsfeed, the happier you make the company and its advertisers. The tests are being tried out on iPhone with web testing coming soon and Android support coming in a few months.