
Facebook details Instant Article subscription program as test launch nears
Facebook confirmed earlier this year that it planned to start testing a subscription program for Instant Articles as soon as October. On...

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...

Facebook opens up Stories to Pages so that someone will use the feature
Facebook’s Stories feature has been a flop compared to Snapchat’s original and Instagram’s clone. So now the social network is opening up...

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...

How Valassis used bots on Facebook Messenger to drive offline auto sales
Bots are often discussed as a kind of magic solution for marketers: scalable, customizable and attractive to millennials. Some of that is...

Facebook tests group video chat app called Bonfire
Facebook is making another foray into the group video chat space. Facebook has rolled out a standalone mobile app in Denmark called...

Facebook is consolidating its ad-buying tools and combining its ad placement options
On Tuesday, Facebook announced a sweeping overhaul of its self-serve ad-buying tools and ad placement options. At the heart of Tuesday’s...

Facebook will stop displaying Instant Articles within Messenger
Fourteen months after Facebook’s Messenger added support for its parent company’s proprietary article format, Messenger will no longer...

Facebook updates its shoppable Collection ads to mirror print catalogs
Facebook is updating the shoppable Collection ad format introduced in March to combine the look of a print catalog with the interactivity...

Instagram starts testing Facebook’s app-like Canvas ads within Stories feed
Facebook is bringing its most creative ad format to its most creative app. Over a year after Facebook said it would extend its Canvas ad...

Facebook redesigns news feed with larger link previews, circular profile photos
A few months after Twitter tweaked the look of its feed, it’s now Facebook’s turn to make some mostly cosmetic changes. On Tuesday,...

Facebook copies Instagram’s Live Stories, Boomerangs with in-app camera update
Instagram has replaced Snapchat as Facebook’s muse. On Tuesday, Facebook added some of Facebook-owned Instagram’s features to its own...

Facebook will rank links to slow-loading pages lower in people’s news feeds
Fotos593 / Shutterstock.com Facebook’s latest tweak to its news feed algorithm will penalize links to slow-loading web pages and could...

Facebook tests ads in Marketplace, its Craigslist-like shopping section
Newspapers reaped a lot of revenue from their classified sections. Then Craigslist killed that business. Then Facebook cloned Craigslist....

Facebook to launch app for video creators later this year
Facebook continues to step up its fight with YouTube for the hearts and minds and, most importantly, content of YouTube’s creators. On...

Facebook adds templates for Canvas ads, extends iAd-like format to Collections
Almost two years after Facebook debuted its fast-loading, iAd-like Canvas ad format, the company continues to make the creation of its...

Facebook rolls out software tool to make AMP, Apple News pages more like Instant Articles
Ever since Facebook officially opened up Instant Articles to all websites last year, publishers, brands and other site owners have had to...

Facebook enables all Pages to add guests to Live broadcasts on iOS
Facebook is extending the option for all Pages and normal accounts to add a guest to their Facebook Live streams after opening up the...

Facebook admits its 10th measurement mistake since September
Facebook has messed up on its math again. More notable than the error itself is the fact that, by my count, this is the tenth measurement...
























