For a majority of brand marketers, when it comes to creating Facebook strategies, nine times out of 10, the most popular is the one that generated the largest amount of Facebook likes for brand pages. The conventional wisdom went that the larger the community on Facebook, the greater the chances of promoting whatever the brand wanted to do, whether it was a new product, campaign, etc.
Facebook ads that appear in the sidebar can now feature customized headlines, much like similar ads that link to sites outside of the social network, as reported by sister blog Inside Facebook.
Mobile Facebook users running iOS 6 will now be able to install applications featured in mobile app install ads directly via Facebook, without being redirected to the App Store, and the social network also introduced some new features for developers looking to take advantage of those ad units.
The challenge: To unify and clean up the Facebook messaging and presences of 175 Toyota dealers in the Southeast region of the U.S. 22squared Senior Vice President of Earned and Emerging Media Chris Tuff and Southeast Toyota Marketing Communications Manager Julie Tullis spoke about the progress they made on that front in just six weeks at a panel at the AllFacebook Marketing Conference in New York Wednesday, Dominating Scale with Facebook Technology to Drive True ROI.
Repeat after us: Facebook marketing is about more than just likes. Motivity Marketing CEO Kevin Ryan, AgoraPulse Founder and CEO Emeric Ernoult, and AdParlor CEO Hussein Fazal offered specific examples of campaigns that worked for their specific firms in a panel at the AllFacebook Marketing Conference in New York Tuesday, “Facebook Ads: Can They Promote More Than Just Likes?,” moderated by Fang Digital Marketing CEO Jeff Ferguson.
Facebook advertising platform SocialWire believes its combination of organic sharing and paid advertising results in a unique offering for marketers on the social network, and a host of investors apparently agree to the tune of $2 million influx of seed funding.
Facebook announced several updates to its app dashboard on the developer side, as well as the rollout of keyword search in its app center.
When is a test no longer a test? When Facebook officially confirms it. The social network announced that the mobile application install ads it introduced in beta in August are now available to all developers, complete with the “install now” call to action first noticed by ESPN Senior Vice President of Product Development Ryan Spoon and reported by sister blog Inside Facebook.
Facebook revealed more details about its announcement earlier this month that advertisers can target ads to Facebook users by email, phone number, or user ID, with Vice President of Advertising and Global Operations David Fischer officially debuting the offering at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco Thursday and announcing eight advertising vendors that offer the capability.
Facebook expanded on its Preferred Marketing Developer program, which debuted in April, with Thursday’s announcement at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco of a new, exclusive tier, Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer.
