Facebook will delete live broadcasts 30 days after publication

The company has acknowledged that most live videos visualizations occur during the first weeks after transmission, which is why the time is updating during which they can be stored on the social network, since until now they were stored indefinitely.

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With the objective of aligning their storage policies with industry standards and guaranteeing “more up -to -all” live video experiences on the platform, it has announced a change in its storage format.

From this Wednesday, all new live broadcasting videos can be reproduced, downloaded or shared from the pages or Facebook profiles for 30 days. After that time, they will be removed automatically.

As part of this transition, all the ‘streamings’ that have more than 30 days of age will be deleted and it will no longer be possible to access them, as explained in a statement shared in their blog.

This procedure will be carried out “in waves” during the next months and, meanwhile, the company is providing users with different tools to download and save their contents. However, before deleting them, you will send notifications to notify them.

Once the alerts have been received, users will have 90 days to choose what to do with their old streamings, with options such as downloading them into a device, transferring them to the cloud or turning them into new ‘reels’ at the end of the retransmission.

To download an old streaming ‘, the content must be accessed from the profile, page or goal Business Site, which offers the option’ Download video ‘on the’ Live ‘tab. Likewise, Facebook will postpone its elimination for a period of six months. Once concluded, they will be deleted automatically.