DIGIDAY – 31/08/2018
Tim Peterson
Discovery should have as good an idea as any media company as to how Instagram’s IGTV is panning out for publishers. Eleven of Discovery’s properties have uploaded videos to IGTV since the Facebook-owned app debuted its YouTube-meets-Snapchat platform for longer vertical videos on June 20. And Discovery’s Food Network has published 70 videos to IGTV in that span, averaging roughly one video a day and 35,000 views and 12 comments per video. Yet it will be several more months until Discovery Inc. has gathered enough information to assess IGTV’s standing among YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat and regular Instagram videos.
