3. - 600 items per day
- 3.5M so far
- 10 platforms
- Top channels on
Snapchat discover
and YouTube
- Over 300M
subscribers
- Data collection
pipeline
Truly cross platform
4. The heart of our culture - data feedback loops
Humans Data Tools
Reporting Tools
On/Off-site Distribution
Personalization
Recommender Systems
A/B Testing (content, product)
Opportunity Sizing and Forecasting
User Segmentation
Data investigations and reporting
Translation and Adaptation Recommendations
5. 1) We’re obsessed with giving
every piece of content a fair
opportunity to reach the right
audience.
6. Humans learning from dashboards
We invested heavily in tooling that
surfaces performance data to our
content creators, so they can then
interpret that data and learn what’s
engaging our audience (or what’s not)
9. 17 of the Best...
All the Reasons...
17 Reasons Why
A winner is chosen!
(much faster)
Editors choose options Variants are tested for CTR
Editors learn from what
thumbs are chosen and
adapt future thumbs
Model by Lucy Wang
Humans learning from A/B tests
10. FeedRanker
Internal service which
leverages machine learning
to rank & feature our most
engaging content
Image borrowed from Adam Lofting, Model by Lucy Wang
Uses a multi-armed bandit algorithm, which is
a common ML method
Machines that learn from human behavior
11. Recipe2Vec
Internal system that surfaces
similar recipes by learning
vectorized representations for
words in a corpus of recipes
Model by Meghan Heintz
Machines that learn content association
14. Neural Networks to make publishing decisions
Promotion
recommendations
Internal system which leverages a neural
network to predict the Facebook page that an
unpublished item should be posted to
Model by Andrew Metersky & Lucy Wang
15. V1: Bag of words
classifier
Look At This Adorable Dog
Who Looks Like A Bear
16 Cows That Are Too
Friggin’ Cute For Words
Chili Dog Bread Ring
The hot dog
problem
16. Bidirectional
LSTM Network
chili dog bread ring
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Relevance to
Animals Account
chili dog != animal
dog bread !=
animal
17.
18. 2) Our audience inhabits a
complex, polluted information
environment. Our role is to
help them navigate it, not
pretend it doesn’t exist.
19. "I started the site for an easy way to make
money," said a 17-year-old who runs a site with
four other people… “Here in Macedonia the
revenue from a small site is enough to afford
many things.”
…The more people who click through from
Facebook, the more money they earn from ads
on their website.
BuzzFeed News first covered #FakeNews beat
23. Jennifer commented 71 times on Tasty videos in the past month with a single
word: ‘yummy’
Is she real?
24. Fader Networks: Manipulating Images by Sliding Attributes -
NIPS 2017
https://github.com/facebookresearch/FaderNetworks
We are being manipulated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk
Face2Face: real-time face capture and reenactment