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Meta Rolls Out Fan Challenges and Custom Top Fan Badges on Facebook

The tools formalize challenge-style posts to spur participation between creators and their communities.

Overview

  • Creators can now launch themed prompts that fans join by tapping a challenge hashtag on posts or Reels to publish their own entries.
  • Each challenge has a central homepage featuring a leaderboard that ranks submissions by reactions to aid discovery and creator interaction.
  • Meta reports more than 1.5 million challenge entries over the past three months, generating comments and reactions from over 10 million people.
  • Top fan badges are now customizable, appear next to comments on creators’ Pages, and can be accepted via notification and displayed on profiles.
  • Meta says over 500 million users have accepted top fan or custom badges, with early examples including Kalen Allen’s test challenge and custom badges from Cardi B, Ed Sheeran, and J Balvin.