
Facebook Advertisers Doubled Ad Spend in Q4 [Kenshoo]
banner 2013 holiday season, including a record-setting Cyber Monday. Advertisers also committed larger budgets to digital in Q4, and...

Facebook To Start Running Ads In Mobile Apps, Building Foundation For Mobile Ad Network
From the announcement: We are running a small test to explore showing Facebook ads in third-party mobile apps. In this test, we’ll be...

Facebook Faces More Legal Action From Sponsored Stories: This Time For False Endorsements
scrapping parts of its Sponsored Stories ad product — the ads that show what other users “Like.” It turns out, the same day a Colorado...

Adios, Sponsored Stories: Facebook To Sunset The Problematic Ad Type In April
In an announcement to developers, Facebook said it will be sunsetting sponsored stories. Domain and open graph sponsored stories are no...

Will Social Video Ads Change TV Advertising?
Much has been written about Facebook’s new video product, which is currently being tested by Summit Entertainment and Mindshare in the...

Facebook Sued Under Federal Wiretapping Law For Mining Private Messages
faces a potential class action lawsuit (“Matthew Campbell v. Facebook Inc.”) for allegedly violating the US Electronic Communications...

How To Create Fatigue-Proof Retargeting Ads
Web surfers aren’t going to engage with the same dreary creative displayed over and over again. This makes it key to vary your message,...

Facebook Now Number 2 In US Digital Ad Sales, Thanks To Mobile [eMarketer]
49 percent of all ad revenues for the quarter — up from 41 percent in Q2. eMarketer today released its latest report on US digital ad...

Studies Show Instagram Ads Boost Recall, Awareness
introduced its first brand ads. Inaugural advertisers included Adidas, Ben & Jerry’s, Burberry, Levi’s, Lexus and Michael Kors, among a...

4 Top Facebook Advertising Trends And The Stats Behind Them
As Facebook’s user base keeps growing, the company has continued to pushed its advertising capabilities with new targeting options,...

Bring On The News Feed Commercials: Promoted Video Ads Officially Land In The Facebook Feed
Next time you check your News Feed you may notice some additional movement thanks to a new ad format. As speculated, Facebook has...

WSJ: Facebook Launching Video Ads This Week
NOTE: The WSJ report was mostly correct. Facebook did announce more video ads today, but it’s only a test and involves one advertiser....

Cyber Monday On FBX: YoY Conversion Rates Up 34 Percent, CTR Nearly Doubles
Triggit released year-over-year data showing performance increases across the board for its advertiser set. In 2012, most advertisers...

Facebook: We Have 25 Million Active Small Business Pages
Facebook is announcing today at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco that it now has 25 million active small business (SMB) Pages....

Facebook Expands Partner Categories Including More Targets For Retail And Automotive
The Ahead of the holiday season, Facebook is emphasizing the additional partner categories that are relevant to retail and automotive...

Facebook Testing “Hover Metrics” And Other New Behavioral Data Collection
Ken Rudin, said that the company may begin capturing even more data about how users behave on the social site. The data collected could...

Facebook: 20 Million Small Businesses Have Pages, Small Fraction Are Advertisers
That’s the word from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who shared the data during today’s Q3 earnings call. The company’s report focused, as...

Facebook Q3 2013: $2.02 Billion, Mobile Generating Half Of Ad Revenue
earnings. Revenue was nearly $2.02 billion, up 60 percent year over year (YoY). Both revenues and earnings beat financial analysts’...

Forrester Research Disses Facebook To Generate Coverage, Controversy
open letter to Mark Zuckerberg.” A raw PR stunt, the letter is partly intended to generate controversy and exposure for the firm. And in...
























