Articles in The 'facebook advertising' Tag

What Facebook Has to Offer

by Nydia Davis

So I might be a little late, but recently I created a Facebook account. As a previous Myspace user, it is easy to become comfortable with a particular social media network; because it is so easy to stay in touch with friends and family. The problem develops when your “friends” switch social networks or start to use multiple networks, as is the case with Myspace and Facebook.

The first thing I noticed within the Facebook platform were the similarities in features made the switch easier for me. Status updates, picture albums, and connecting with new friend’s remains the same between both Myspace and Facebook, however Facebook’s method of advertising puts them a step ahead from a marketer’s standpoint.

Facebook embeds their advertisements within the different pages of profiles and change as the user browses. One particularly unique function is that Facebook allows the user to “Like” or “Dislike” an ad and select the reason why the ad was unappealing. This type of information is invaluable to advertisers and can play a major role in allocating marketing dollars to the right audience or to target different demographics. Once you “Dislike” an ad, Facebook will serve you a new one but never the one that was marked disliked.

Will Facebook’s Ex Google Exec Help ROI?

by Nydia Davis

Facebook has recruited yet another Google AdWords executive after recently receiving a $200 million subsidy at a $10 billion valuation. It’s been speculated that the social media champion could hit $400-500 million in revenue this year as sited by The Business Insider.

Facebook hired ex-Google Adwords executive Grady Burnett to help beef up their self-service advertising unit. What can he bring to the table? Optimistically, Grady’s experience from both DoubleClick and Google will aid him to develop an improved self-service advertising platform for Facebook. Facebook has been steadily pulling in higher amounts of advertising revenue.

Facebook has said that their advertisers are beginning to see an increasing return on their investment. On the contrary, advertisers have been discussing how social media sites like Facebook and Myspace have not been generating conversions. Expectantly, advertisers need to see the return in capital in order to spread the word about how well demographic targeting deliveries results. Generating converting traffic is a goal that Grady can hopefully help his new Facebook team achieve.    

There is no doubt that Facebook has the audience. They have advertisers ready and willing to allocate funds toward their network because of their highly targeted demographic. But, now its time for Facebook to determine what is going to help advertisers get conversions. Once Facebook overcomes this challenge, it will help obtain new advertisers as well as retain current ones in their network. Some advice from a Google mogul may help; now they have it.