{"id":93322,"date":"2025-09-29T20:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/93322\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:45:08","slug":"facebook-adds-fan-challenges-custom-badges-for-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/93322\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook adds fan challenges, custom badges for creators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook is rolling out features<\/a> that aim to bring fans closer to their favorite creators: fan challenges and customized top fan badges.<\/p>\n

The fan challenges feature will allow creators to prompt their followers with specific challenges. Followers can participate by making a reel or a post as a response. To encourage more engagement and participation, the particular challenge hashtag will appear in a leaderboard that ranks the submissions in order of how many reactions it gets.<\/p>\n

These kinds of challenges have been popular on short form video platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels, where users may participate in informal dance challenges, or riff on trending audio clips. Facebook is formalizing the trend into an actual feature by creating a landing page for specific creators\u2019 challenges.<\/p>\n

\"\"Image Credits:<\/strong>Meta<\/p>\n

In one example, Facebook suggests a cooking creator could celebrate fall by inviting fans to share videos of their favorite recipes involving butternut squash.<\/p>\n

Kalen Allen, a creator with 3.6 million Facebook followers, tested the feature<\/a> with a challenge asking fans to make videos about their dreams and goals, yielding about 520 entries. Meta says fans have submitted 1.5 million challenge entries over the last three months, while the feature was being tested.<\/p>\n

Facebook is also allowing creators to customize the \u201ctop fan\u201d badges that appear next to users\u2019 names who engage most with their content. So, instead of being designated just a \u201ctop fan\u201d of Ed Sheeran, you can be a \u201cSheerio,\u201d if that\u2019s your thing. Other celebrities like Cardi B and J Balvin have also enabled custom badges.<\/p>\n

Facebook generally isn\u2019t regarded as being as creator-centric as Instagram, which recently celebrated its 3 billion monthly active user milestone<\/a>. It\u2019s more the kind of place you\u2019d go to read the latest drama about bike lanes in your neighborhood Facebook group, or where you\u2019ll accidentally encounter AI Shrimp Jesus<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Techcrunch event<\/p>\n

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These updates show us that Meta wants fans to take Facebook more seriously as a platform to engage with creators.<\/p>\n

These features are designed to ramp up engagement \u2014 and this time from actual humans. Last week, Meta announced that it would introduce a Reels-like video feed<\/a> on its Meta AI app, which is purely comprised of AI-generated videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook is rolling out features that aim to bring fans closer to their favorite creators: fan challenges and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,877,19,17,1722,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-93322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-facebook","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-meta","13":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}