
Facebook turns sound on by default in videos, debuts TV apps
Facebook videos are getting bigger and louder. In the biggest change since December 2013, when Facebook began playing videos...

Facebook opens itself to measurement audit, gives brands more control over video ad buys
In an effort to rebuild advertisers’ trust following a series of measurement errors last year, Facebook has moved to make its ad...

Instagram won’t fix Facebook’s ad load dilemma yet, but video might
For the past six months or so, Facebook has been warning investors that it will max out the number of ads it can stuff into people’s news...

Facebook’s Q4 2016 earnings report in 7 charts
Facebook makes a lot of money… … and the money it makes from advertising keeps growing at a steady pace… … because a lot of people use...

Facebook starts opening its black box to keep advertisers from avoiding Audience Network
Late last May, GroupM’s head of paid social, Kieley Taylor, sent an email to the WPP-owned media agency network’s paid social teams in...

Facebook opens its ad network’s video ads to independent viewability checks
After a series of measurement errors disclosed last year, marketers’ distrust of Facebook’s math grew, as did their calls for more...

Facebook tests putting its news feed ads in Messenger to make app more plug-and-pay for brands
Facebook is about to max out the amount of ads it can slot into people’s Facebook feeds, so it’s been ramping up its rollout of ads...

Twitter overcharged video advertisers due to error in its Android app
Well, Twitter has one-upped Facebook. For more than a month, Twitter incorrectly measured brands’ video ads running on Android devices...

Facebook’s latest measurement error undercounted Instant Articles traffic
Twin Design / Shutterstock.com It’s happened again. For the fourth time since September and the second time this month, Facebook has...

Facebook to use crowdsourcing, fact-checkers and labels to combat fake news
It’s been roughly five weeks since the US presidential election and the corresponding fake news scandal. After some initial denial of the...

Facebook discloses new measurement errors, continues to hone its math
Math is hard, even for Facebook. And it’s getting harder to trust Facebook’s math, even as the social network fine-tunes its...

How Facebook’s measurement errors have eroded marketers’ trust
Facebook’s string of measurement errors disclosed since September has some marketers shook up, even if those marketers weren’t directly...

Report: Facebook develops content suppression tool for China reentry
Do no evil. Make the world more open and connected. These have been Google and Facebook’s respective tag lines or mantras, if you will;...

Facebook removes 4 agencies from Marketing Partners program with media-buying badge elimination
Facebook is returning its Marketing Partners (née Preferred Marketing Developers) program to its roots as a roster of advertising and...

Facebook may start flagging fake news posts, says Mark Zuckerberg
On Facebook, nobody knows if you’re a liar. But they might someday soon. Facebook is considering flagging to its users when a piece of...

Facebook shuts down Atlas ad server because it doesn’t serve ad sales
Facebook’s ad-tech strategy grows ever more insular. Facebook has decided to stop operating its Atlas ad server but will continue to run...

Facebook has created its own analytics tool for Messenger bots
With more than 34,000 Messenger bots on the market since their April 2016 debut, Facebook is rolling out an analytics tool that will...

Facebook puts some limits on controversial, quasi-racial ad targeting option
No, Facebook isn’t getting rid of its pseudo-racial ad targeting option. No, it hasn’t decided to prevent advertisers from using it to...

Facebook will try selling ads on TV screens next week
Facebook wants to see if it can bring its big ad business to the big screen. Next week Facebook plans to start a test that will have its...
























