
Facebook Opening Access To Custom Audiences For All Advertisers By End Of November
Custom Audiences ad targeting tool to all advertisers by late November. The feature will begin rolling out today for a limited number of...

Facebook’s First Video Ads Are Coming To Mobile
Facebook’s count, about 70 percent of us do — you’ll soon start seeing video ads in your News Feed. The company announced today that app...

When Pigs Fly: Why Facebook And Google Are Becoming Ad Partners
After all, Google took over the top spot in digital display revenue from Facebook last year, according to eMarketer. That same study...

Google’s DoubleClick To Offer FBX Ad Inventory In Coming Months
announced today it will be extending its advertising services to include ads on FBX, Facebook’s real-time bidding exchange. According to...

Facebook Buys Israeli Mobile Analytics Company Onavo
acquired Israeli startup Onavo. TechCrunch first reported the news, which was confirmed by a company blog post. The acquisition price...

Focusing On “Objectives” Facebook Simplifies Ad Creation, Measurement
announced that it would overhaul and dramatically simplify the process of buying ads on the site to eliminate confusion. Today, Facebook...

Mobile And The Rise Of “Real World Analytics”
Digital marketers have mostly avoided trying to account for offline conversions in the past because they’ve been so hard to track on a...

Report: Facebook To Start Giving Social Data To TV Networks
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the data will be basic, at least in the beginning, with networks learning how many Facebook...

Facebook Users Will Soon Have More Control Over The Ads It Displays
Facebook announced it is making changes to the ads algorithm to improve the relevancy of ads in users’ news feeds. The algorithm...

Facebook Connects Impressions To Offline Sales For Telcos
Mobile payments early on held this promise. However mobile payments haven’t yet taken off (see Google Wallet). But that hasn’t stopped...

Facebook Advertiser Banned For Using Photo Of A Teen Who Recently Committed Suicide
Rehtaeh Parsons was a 17-year-old Canadian woman that passed away due to complications of an attempted suicide on April 7th this year....

Report: Facebook’s Promoted Posts Won’t Cannibalize Organic Reach (Even If They Are Terr
Last Spring, the launch of Facebook’s Promoted Posts launched, garnering mixed reviews from brands. Since launch, some speculation has...

Facebook Rolls Out Bigger, Uniform Image Sizes And Larger Canvas For All Ad Formats
Images will be bigger and, in a nod to simplification, ad specifications will be consistent across ad placements. Advertisers will no...

Instagram Ads Coming, Seeks To Avoid Facebook’s Missteps
profile of Facebook’s Emily White (now Director of Business Operations at Instagram) in which the subject of advertising on the app is...

Fowl Play: Facebook Bans ‘Booby’ Nature Campaign
If you were a resident of the birdwatching mecca of Christmas Island, a “booby” would mean one thing – a bird. The Booby is a seabird...

Facebook Updates Policies On How User Data Is Used In Advertising
“sponsored stories” legal settlement, Facebook is following court orders by updating the documents that explain how the company collects...

Forecast: Mobile To Be 48 Percent Of Display Revenue By 2017
Data aggregator eMarketer has published a revised set of ad-revenue forecasts with an emphasis on mobile. The firm projects that mobile...

Facebook Says Run Your Promotions From Your Page, No Contest App Required
Up to now, page administrators were required to run all promotions through an app. However, “illegal” contests run from page timelines...

Facebook Settles “Sponsored Stories” Litigation For $20 Million
are ads that include identification of users’ friends who’ve “liked” the advertiser. Facebook has agreed to pay $20 million to end the...
























