Facebook to Provide Free Photos for Businesses to Use in Ads
Having trouble coming up with your next Facebook ad? No worries. Facebook is here to help. In an attempt to make it easier for businesses to create a Facebook ad, the company announced a deal with Shutterstock on Thursday that will provide free access to millions of images for use in ads. The photos will […]
Can Facebook Rewrite the Industry Standard For User Engagement?
The “monthly active users” figure has long been the industry standard for user engagement in social media. It’s easy to digest, but more importantly, it’s a benchmark capable of comparing the most social of social networks to the new kids on the block. When it comes to Facebook, however, monthly active users have become a […]
Report: Users Are Engaging More With Facebook Ads
A quarterly review of Facebook’s ad performance found increases in advertising metrics across the board, including click-through rates, total clicks and revenues driven by the ads themselves. Kenshoo Social, a digital marketing company that works with “hundreds” of customers that advertise on Facebook, explored more than 75 billion Facebook ads over the past two quarters, […]
Researcher: Advertise Your Facebook Post Within 24 Hours or Don’t Bother
If your brand just posted a status on Facebook, don’t waste time waiting to amplify it with an ad buy. If you don’t do so within 24 hours, you will lose a great deal of the engagement and viral impressions that would have been generated by posting earlier. This is the gist of new research […]
Facebook Acquires Mobile Technologies, a Speech Translation Developer
Facebook has acquired Mobile Technologies, a developer of voice recognition and translation tools, the two companies announced late Monday. The terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. Mobile Technologies, founded in 2001, built Jibbigo, an app for iPhone and Android that the company describes as “the world’s first speech-to-speech translator on a phone that […]
You Can Soon Make Restaurant Reservations on Facebook
The next time you visit a restaurant’s Facebook page on your mobile phone, you’ll be able to do more than browse photos and posts: You’ll also be able to book a table for four. The feature is part of a new integration with OpenTable, which allows you to make online reservations at about 20,000 U.S. […]
Analyst Prediction: Facebook Video Ads Will Generate $1 Billion in 2014
Facebook users may not be excited to see video ads hit their News Feeds, but company stockholders should be. A report released by Morgan Stanley on Wednesday predicts that Facebook’s video advertisements will generate more than $1 billion in 2014 — a lofty total considering they don’t exist yet. This total would constitute 1% of […]
Facebook Insights Gets a Makeover – Facebook Fan Page Marketing
Facebook Page owners, rejoice: Facebook Insights, the social network’s analytics dashboard for public Pages, is getting a makeover. A small, random group of beta testers will get access to the new desktop design on Wednesday, with a broader rollout to follow at an unspecified date. The new design is simpler, cleaner and more intelligible. Stats […]
