
On Facebook, viral reach for branded-content ads eclipses standard ads
If brands want to attract extra attention for their ads on Facebook, they may be better off paying a publisher or influencer to produce a...

Facebook could prevent age-discriminating job ads if it wanted to
The ways in which Facebook’s advertising tools can be misused — and the fact that Facebook doesn’t guard them against such misuse —...

Digital advertising in 2018: 5 trends to watch
Digital advertising in 2017 saw several major changes that will continue to influence and affect the work of digital marketers in the...

Digital advertising 2017: A year of reckoning in review
Digital advertising 2017 by the numbers: Poised for a big year: The first quarter of 2017 represented the strongest beginning to any year...

Facebook announces 6-second pre-roll ad test, new mid-roll ad restrictions
Facebook will begin testing a six-second pre-roll ads hub next year, the company announced on Thursday, confirming earlier reports....

Facebook ads can now link to brands’ WhatsApp accounts
Facebook is piecing together the business side of WhatsApp in much the same way it did with Messenger. In September, WhatsApp announced...

Knowing your audience better is your competitive advantage: A case study
Paid advertising on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram allows you leverage your existing customer data (emails, names,...

Facebook’s pre-roll ad test will only run in Watch, not News Feed
Despite Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s long-held stance against pre-empting videos with advertising, Facebook plans to test out pre-roll...

Facebook halts advertisers from using targeting to exclude racial groups
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: Facebook is disabling some ad-targeting options because it’s been revealed how those those...

Facebook outlines its advertising principles to show it has them
Over the past year, Facebook’s advertising business has been derided for many reasons. For being used by Russian entities to attempt to...

What you need to know about Facebook’s new ad transparency
The ad you serve to a 25-year-old woman could be very different from the one a 50-year-old man sees, specifically because you want to...

Facebook rolls out dynamic ads for auto, updates lead ads for appointments
Facebook wants to grease the car-buying process. On Thursday Facebook tuned up two of its ad products for auto brands looking to get...

Facebook makes it easier for advertisers to reach people internationally
Advertisers can reach more than 2 billion people around the world through Facebook, but it’s hard to do so. So Facebook is trying to make...

Facebook refunds advertisers for mobile video ads played out of view
Facebook has informed advertisers that the company has discovered two new measurement errors. The latest errors mark the 11th and 12th...

Facebook’s ad revenue tops $10.1B as ad prices soar to offset supply slowdown
Neither political controversies nor measurement mishaps nor its own execs’ warnings have slowed Facebook’s advertising machine. Before...

Amazon gets top net-promoter score among SMB vendors according to survey
There are literally hundreds of companies, publishers and agencies trying to sell digital marketing and other services to US small...

E-commerce brands boost Facebook ad spend as CPMs, CPCs rise but CTRs dip
If the third quarter is a warmup exercise for e-commerce advertisers plotting their fourth-quarter spending spree, then it should be a...

Facebook opens Collection ad format to Dynamic Ads for Travel campaigns
Fotos593 / Shutterstock.com Ahead of the holiday travel season, Facebook is giving airline and hotel brands new tools to catch people’s...

Facebook’s dynamic creative can generate up to 6,250 versions of an ad
Facebook is rolling out a way for brands to automatically create thousands of different versions of an ad that will vary in content based...
























