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FB now showing public-facing views and comment engagement stats!
Published 10 days agoย โขย 7 min read
June 11, 2026
PUBLISHER INSIDER
Facebook is getting more transparent, and it's telling you exactly what it wants next. Public post insights are rolling out for all pages for all sectors. June RPMs and views are spiking. New revenue share streams keep opening up. The signals keep lining up - the year ahead is going to be a good one. Don't miss this one.
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๐ง INSIDER ANALYSIS OF THE WEEK - PART 1
Facebook is now showing post views and comment rates on PUBLIC-FACING posts. Every publisher just got a free competitive intelligence layer.
The scoreboard just went public.
Facebook is continuing to increase transparency, for publishers and for users. The logic is simple: the more data publishers and marketers have within their analytics and beyond, the more they can improve, and the better results they can get.
So in a huge new update, Facebook is starting to show actual post insights for public-facing posts. Tap into this post from The Dodo and the panel is right there: 710K views, and a comment rate of 0.14% of views. Per Facebook's own note in the panel, Reels with over 10K views may show insights like this.
The first implication: Facebook is moving toward showing views on actual posts, in addition to likes, comments, and engagement. This is very similar to what X has been doing, and it's a great way of understanding the virality of a post beyond engagements alone. In many cases, people don't publicly engage with posts at all. They engage privately: they click, they view, they consume. That makes views an important metric to understand. The Dodo post is the example: very few interactions, and a lot of views.
For publishers, the scoreboard just went public. You can now see what's actually traveling in your niche, on any page, not just your own.
Part 2 below covers the second implication, and it lines up directly with an update we covered on Tuesday.
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Facebook just told publishers exactly what it wants next - COMMENTS! And it's already putting money behind it.
The second implication of the new public insights: Facebook wants more comments. More replies to comments. More people leaving comments under posts. When a platform starts surfacing a metric, it's telling you what it's watching.
This goes directly in line with the update we shared in Tuesday's newsletter. Facebook even ran a bonus paying a revenue share on eligible views from comments you make on your own posts. The platform wired a payout directly into comments, and days later, surfaced a comment metric on public posts.
Why does Facebook want this? Because comments increase dwell time like crazy for each post. Every reply, every thread under a post keeps people on that post longer. Facebook showed you the metric and paid you to move it.
So here's what you walk away with. At the macro level, you have a clear understanding of where Facebook as a platform is headed: a more transparent platform that wants conversation happening under every post. At the micro level, you have exact steps and strategies you can use to improve the performance of your content, straight from the platform itself.
Most updates give you one or the other. This one gives you both.
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Major improvements to the workflow.
Headline rewriting, so it reworks the text instead of copying it 1:1 from the original post.
Improved caption generation.
Improved automated bug fixing.
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โ The June RPM Spike Is Real, And Operators Are Watching It Hit Their Dashboards Live. โStraight from our management portfolio as well as WhatsApp community: operators reporting RPMs climbing across the board since the start of June. One member running multiple pages flagged Reels RPMs jumping sharply, with image-post RPMs up meaningfully versus where they sat a month or two ago. The story behind the story: this isn't a seasonal bounce or a lucky algorithm week. It's the back half of Meta rebuilding how ads are auctioned and matched. When the auction gets more efficient, the CPMs feeding your RPMs go up, and the lift shows in your dashboard a beat later, which is exactly what the community is watching happen right now. For Facebook publishers, the read is to stop treating the spring dip as the new normal and start pricing in the rebound. The pages capturing the most upside are the ones that never tore down the setup that worked and held inventory while RPMs were depressed. The auction reset is flowing into the payout pool, and it's flowing to whoever stayed positioned. Keep compounding inside the walled garden.
โ Meta Will Feed Your Off-Site Activity Into Feed Recommendations and AI Responses.โ โMeta announced it will start using data shared by ad partners, including Meta Pixel activity from external websites, to personalize Feed recommendations and Meta AI responses, not just ads. Meta's own example: buy a tent online, see more camping Reels. The company says no new data is being collected, but it is streamlining its privacy controls and retiring the "Your activity off Meta technologies" setting that let users disconnect business-shared activity from their accounts. The rollout starts in the U.S., with other regions following in the coming months. For Facebook publishers, the read is distribution quality. Feed ranking is about to ingest off-platform purchase and browsing intent, which means content gets matched to users with demonstrated commercial interest in the topic, not just on-platform engagement history. Niche pages aligned with real buying behavior (outdoors, home, finance, parenting) stand to get sharper distribution from the same algorithm. The platform deepening its targeting data is the same platform cutting your CM checks. Stay positioned.
โ AI Just Made Content Cheap. Distribution Is the Only Asset Left.โ Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 this week, the first publicly available "Mythos-class" model and the most capable model the company has ever released for general use. Early demos show it building playable video games from single prompts and finishing a code migration at Stripe in one day that would have taken an engineering team two months. API pricing came in at less than half of the preview version. The story behind the story: the cost of producing content, software, and media is collapsing toward zero, for every operator, at the same time. When everyone can generate unlimited content, generic production stops being the moat. For Facebook publishers, the read is simple. The scarce assets in an abundance economy are distribution and judgment: pages with reach, audiences that compound, and an operator who knows what those audiences actually want. That is exactly the setup we built into the Facebook Monetization Suite: automation running the operational layer of your page in about 20 minutes a day, while you stay on voice, judgment, and strategy. Let the machine absorb what just became a commodity. Keep what is scarce. Own inventory there.
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