{"id":9091,"date":"2017-09-09T00:51:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T00:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebook-adds-a-dedicated-movies-section-offering-showtimes-and-ticket-sales.html"},"modified":"2017-09-09T00:51:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T00:51:09","slug":"facebook-adds-a-dedicated-movies-section-offering-showtimes-and-ticket-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-adds-a-dedicated-movies-section-offering-showtimes-and-ticket-sales.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook adds a dedicated \u2018Movies\u2019 section offering showtimes and ticket sales"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Some Facebook users have noticed a new section called \u201cMovies\u201d appearing in the mobile app\u2019s main navigation. The feature, which has just appeared for many U.S. Facebook users, offers a way to see which movies are playing nearby, available showtimes and a list of local theaters and their movie selections. The section is powered through an integration with Fandango\u2019s booking service, which means you can also buy a movie ticket right from the \u201cMovies\u201d section itself.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Facebook has powered movie ticket sales, to be clear.<\/p>\n

Last fall, it introduced<\/a> a way for visitors to Facebook Pages to take various actions, like getting quotes, buying event tickets from Ticketmaster and buying movie tickets, among other things. At the time, the movie ticket sales were being made possible through a partnership with Fandango,<\/a> and had begun with just a few titles in U.S. theaters, like The Magnificent Seven, Storks<\/em> and others.<\/p>\n

The interface<\/a> for those movie ticket sales from Facebook Pages looks just like the one you\u2019ll see from the Facebook app\u2019s \u201cMovies\u201d section, currently.<\/p>\n

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That indicates this is more of an expansion of the existing relationship with Fandango, rather than something entirely new to Facebook. That is, instead of having to visit an individual movie\u2019s Facebook Page to start the purchasing process, you can just go to a single destination in the Facebook app. That makes it simpler to see all the movies playing nearby and complete your transaction.<\/p>\n

For Fandango, its interest in working with Facebook went beyond purchasing ease, Paul Yanover, Fandango\u2019s president, told The New York Times<\/a> last fall. It was also about the ability to connect groups of friends who would go see movies together.<\/p>\n

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But for Facebook, the feature is now one of many that have launched in its main navigation in recent months, as the social network is shaping up to become a portal that offers anything you\u2019d need online. In other words, Facebook wants to keep you in its app instead of having you turn to Google, or seek out other mobile apps to perform a task, get information, use a service, etc.<\/p>\n

For example, the company has added features to its app\u2019s main navigation that include a way to\u00a0order food delivery;<\/a>\u00a0a\u00a0Town Hall<\/a>\u00a0for connecting with local, state and national government representatives; access to your daily\u00a0weather<\/a>\u00a0and forecast; an\u00a0Explore feed<\/a>\u00a0for finding new Facebook Pages you might like; a selection of\u00a0trending news<\/a>\u00a0items; a way to watch the top Live videos; a QR code scanner; a Wi-Fi finder<\/a>; easier access to Safety Check;<\/a>\u00a0a networking-focused \u201cDiscover People\u201d section;<\/a>\u00a0and many other options. And that\u2019s not the complete list.<\/p>\n

We understand that the Facebook \u201cMovies\u201d button is considered a test, and has been slowly expanding to users across the U.S.<\/p>\n

That means some of you will have seen this option long before now, while others are only newly seeing it. It\u2019s very difficult to tell when Facebook actually launches new features, because of how it tests products with small audiences, then larger ones and then sometimes decides to yank the feature or make it publicly available.<\/p>\n

Movie tickets aren\u2019t the only type of ticket that Facebook is selling these days, we should also note. Its \u201cMarketplace\u201d section is rolling out a \u201cticket sales\u201d section<\/a>, too, which allows local event hosts to promote their events inside Facebook\u2019s Craigslist-like feature.<\/p>\n

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