Spruce Media, a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer, examined the state of Facebook advertising in the first quarter of 2013, and reported mostly positive results, in advance of the social network’s first-quarter earnings call Wednesday afternoon.
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. Facebook marketing solutions provider Spruce Media teamed up with measurement firm Nielsen and the social network to begin offering Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings, which bring a benchmark comparable with Nielsen’s television gross rating points to brands advertising on Facebook.
Up until now, online marketing has been intensely focused on the click. The main goal for ad companies is to get people click on ads, hoping that they can convert that into sales. Brad Smallwood, Facebook’s head of measurement and insights, spoke Monday at the IAB MIXX conference, sharing the company’s findings from a partnership with Datalogix in an effort to help marketers achieve success through the social network.
