The Facebook Blog

Since we launched video last year, more than 45 million videos have been uploaded to Facebook with approximately 100,000 new videos added each day. Starting today, you'll be able to upload higher quality videos to Facebook and also embed your Facebook videos on other websites.

Higher quality video means we'll be supporting higher resolutions—as much as 1280 by 720 pixels (720p)—which means crisper quality than was previously possible on Facebook. Plus, we've upgraded our audio, too.

Even if you don't own a HD camera or you don't actively upload videos to Facebook, you'll still be able to enjoy higher quality videos all over the site. This means movie studios, bands and anyone else that uploads videos to Facebook will be able to provide you with a better viewing experience.
You'll also be able to take videos you've added to Facebook and embed them on other websites. If you have a blog, personal or business website, you'll be able to display any of your Facebook videos on that site as well. We're making it easy for you to share your videos across the web with the same privacy settings you have on Facebook, which means that if the privacy is set to "Everyone", people won't have to be logged into Facebook to view it. Or if you want only a few friends to view your video, you can control that through your Facebook privacy settings as well.

New and improved video on Facebook, now in high definition (view in full-screen mode by selecting the icon on the lower right):



Chris, an engineer working on Facebook video, can't wait to see his friends in high definition.