As Facebook rolls out more and more advertising options, the backlash from users about ad targeting has grown. Facebook aims to solve that, according to AdAge, by showing users a logo on targeted ads served through Facebook Exchange (FBX). However, the logo will only be shown when users mouses over the gray “X” in the corner of the ad, usually used to hide it.
Lisa Raphael (left), the social media producer at Katie Couric's daytime talk show Katie, is one of our featured speakers in Mediabistro's upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp, an online event and workshop starting June 6, 2013. Lisa will share a case study on how the hit show uses Twitter to build interest and buzz around upcoming segments. Learn more about our our twelve event speakers and register here. 
Most brands want to create lasting memories with their advertising campaigns. But is there any potential to using Facebook’s new Poke application — where messages disappear in seconds — in advertising? Israeli lingerie company Delta already tried using Poke for a marketing campaign, and AdAge reports that more companies could follow suit.
On Tuesday, a report detailed that Facebook is planning to implement 15-second video advertisements that automatically play — an effort to grab television ad dollars. The reaction around the Internet was swift and negative, criticizing the social network for being too invasive by making the ads play instantly, forcing users to push pause or stop. But how effective are video ads in the first place?
In an effort to boost advertising revenue, Facebook will apparently start launching video ads in users’ news feeds, regardless if the person has liked the brand or not. According to AdAge, Facebook will launch video ads in early 2013, trying to attract TV advertising dollars.
Not long after Facebook made changes to its algorithm (which people often refer to as EdgeRank) in September, many page admins started noticing greatly decreased reach. We Are Social teamed up with Socialbakers to gather some hard data on how the changes have affected pages. They found that while, yes, reach has gone way down, engagement has pretty much held steady since August.
Facebook officially reached 1 billion monthly active users Sept. 14 at 12:45 p.m. PT, Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a post on the social network’s Newsroom, as well as in an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer, and in a cover story for Bloomberg Businessweek.
Facebook’s announcement that the site is testing ads that will go beyond pages’ fan bases set off a flurry of reaction across the Internet. Many criticized the social network, as previously, only content from pages specifically liked by the user or their friends ended up in their news feeds. Some feel that the ads are OK, since Facebook is a free service. A Facebook spokesperson told AllFacebook that this is a test, and users are able to hide these posts, similar to the process of hiding any other news feed content.
Want to tell a company its product would be great if it just did one little thing differently? Just tell the company on its Facebook page. It’s listening.
While several businesses that market on Facebook tend to become overly concerned with the number of likes their page has, Advertising Age found that more marketers are buying ads on Facebook to build brand awareness, not boost fan numbers.
