
Facebook tests removing organic Page posts from News Feed
Facebook’s News Feed has been largely pay-to-play for Pages for years. Now the social network is exploring whether to make it completely...

Facebook will insert ads within Messenger’s Instant Games
Facebook wants to make more money from Messenger, and the company is willing to share some of that money with developers to get them to...

How video makers are programming around Facebook’s ad breaks
Videos on Facebook increasingly resemble TV-style programming — until an ad interrupts the video without a natural break in the action....

Google & Facebook among members signed onto IAB UK ‘Gold Standard’ ads program
The UK arm of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB UK) has launched a new program aimed at reducing ad fraud, improving user...

Data Gran launches AI-powered tool for optimizing Facebook, Instagram (and soon, Google) campaigns
A new campaign testing and optimization tool for Facebook and Instagram advertisers launches today after a two-year development and beta...

Facebook acquires teen-centric polling app tbh and all its valuable data
Facebook continues to grapple with its teen problem. Four years ago, Facebook’s then-CFO David Ebersman admitted that the social network...

Nanigans launches incrementality optimization & reporting solution
The machine learning-driven solution aims to target consumers deemed likely to be influenced by advertising and limit spending on users...

Instagram redesigns call-to-action bar to dynamically mirror ads
For the second time in the two years since rolling out clickable ads, Instagram is updating the look of what people are supposed to...

Apple’s anti-tracking tool restricts Facebook’s ability to follow people around the web
Two years ago, Facebook began using the ubiquitous “like” buttons that publishers put on their sites to track people’s web browsing and...

With Snap Accelerate, Snapchat pursues mobile startups that built Facebook’s ad biz
A newly public company with mounting concerns over the viability of its advertising business, Snapchat in 2017 resembles Facebook in...

Facebook’s 2-year NFL deal for Watch shows includes sharing ad revenue
Facebook’s NFL deal may serve as a playbook for how the social network plans to score TV viewers and advertisers. On Tuesday, Facebook...

Facebook spins off ‘messages’ as standalone ad objective to boost Messenger bots
Every month, 18 million businesses exchange more than 2 billion messages with people on Messenger, according to David Marcus, head of the...

Instagram hits 2 million monthly advertisers, doubling in six months (again)
For the second time in the past year, Instagram’s advertiser base has doubled in six months. Over the past month, more than 2 million...

Facebook will measure how its ads compare against, complement TV campaigns
Facebook is raising its bid for brand advertisers’ TV budgets. Facebook will offer advertisers the option of having the company measure...

Facebook will target ads to people based on store visits, offline purchases, calls to businesses
Facebook is making it easier for brands to retarget people with ads on Facebook based on how those people come into contact with a brand...

Facebook will add ‘more human review’ of ad-targeting options
On Wednesday, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg outlined steps the company is taking to address its latest ad-targeting controversy. Last...

Facebook’s removal of 4 ad targeting options does not apply to existing campaigns
Last week, Facebook removed four ad-targeting options after a ProPublica report found that the fields could be used to target ads to...

Facebook will block advertisers from changing link previews, but hasn’t yet
Fotos593 / Shutterstock.com In another effort to stem the spread of disinformation on its social network, Facebook is cracking down on...

Facebook yanks education, employment, field of study and job title targeting after advertiser select
As precious as Facebook’s user data is to the company, it has been less than careful in how it uses that data. The more than 2 billion...
























