
Facebook’s Canvas ads get easier to create (and recreate) with new API
Facebook’s iAd-like Canvas ads can be as labor-intensive as they are immersive. The social network unveiled the creative kitchen sink of...

Facebook’s shoppable ‘Collection’ ad is its latest iAd-like format
Twin Design / Shutterstock.com Traditionally, clicking on a brand’s ad on Facebook would open a dedicated microsite or product catalog...

How to harness the power of Facebook Local Pages to drive in-store sales
five times more reach than national Facebook pages and eight times more impressions. Today, there are more than 60 million active...

Facebook, Google the global app-install leaders, but Twitter wins for retention
AppsFlyer has issued its latest report analyzing the performance of app-install advertising platforms in terms of volume and retention....

With 1M apps to date, Facebook’s analytics tool adds features but hasn’t fixed measurement err
Facebook’s rival to Google Analytics has piqued developers’ interest, though it’s unclear to what extent it’s been able to sustain that...

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’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 will let celebs edit Live videos after broadcast ends
Celebrities live the good life. They get the best tables at restaurants, free swag and access to some Facebook features before anyone...

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 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 social ads’ location targeting can side-step electioneering laws
In California — and other states like Texas and New York — you’re not allowed to visibly promote a political candidate within 100 feet of...

Ads in Facebook Messenger are officially here
Today Facebook officially made it possible for marketers to turn their Messenger bots into ad bots. After testing sponsored messages...

Facebook’s Q3 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 adds new tools for local discovery and commerce
Facebook wants to be the mobile solution for local businesses. It also sees itself increasingly as a local commerce platform for...

Facebook will help mobile apps aim push notifications based on people’s in-app actions
Facebook wants to help mobile app developers strike a balance between pushing people to use their apps and not coming across as too...

Facebook’s new Events app could be a Trojan Horse rival to Google Calendar
Facebook has become a popular place for people to pencil in their plans. Every day more than 100 million people — about nine percent of...

How to see all the Facebook Live video that’s happening around the world
From political stump speeches to local TV news to piracy to porn, there’s a lot of programming being broadcast through Facebook Live. But...

Facebook’s Marketplace gets the mobile home tab that was supposed to go to Live
Facebook had planned to add a Live tab to the bottom bar on its mobile app’s home screen. That picture above? That’s how Facebook’s...
























