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More ads to come to the popular social media websites. New ways of supplying them and the need for more revenue will cause an increase in the ads that we see on social sites. Some ads we may not notice due to the 'organic' layout of them.

Article is about the news reader app Circa and its plan to implement advertising into its platform. The company plans to introduce full screen banners as well as sponsored posts.

Native ads - basically like magazine advertorials - are becoming big business but I hope there is attention to quality and entertainment. Traditional advertorials have always sucked IMO.

Twitter is rolling out a new app install ad exchange across other associated social media platforms through a program called MoPub wherein advertisers will be able to bid on ads that allow users to directly install apps through the ad.

This is a very big deal - most times when apps get bought out, their privacy policies are largely dismissed or completely changed. Due to the massive popularity and international use of WhatsApp, this is not a possibility. So the question is, if there will be no ads or information selling, how will Facebook make a profit with this aquisition? How can we as interactives sell this product?

Yeah, Facebook is notoriously uninterested in people's privacy, but they seem to be in a bit of a bind here. Of course Zuckerberg has always said "the revenue funds the product, not he other way around" - in direct contrast to basically every company ever.

I literally had no clue what this was before I read this article. Really cool, and I am interested to see what occurs in the future with it.

I literally had no clue what this was before I read this article. Really cool, and I am interested to see what occurs in the future with it.