The video ads, which the company says are still being tested to a limited number of users, will start playing automatically as users scroll through their news feed, the central real estate in Facebook's desktop and mobile platforms. They will initially play without sound; users can stop the ad by scrolling past it in the news feed.
Ads Aren't Reshaping Twitter, Twitter Is Reshaping Ads - 0 views
Facebook's Video Ads Risk Alienating Users - WSJ.com - 0 views
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In a November survey of 735 Facebook users by global marketing consultancy Analytic Partners, 83% of users said they would find video ads "intrusive" and would likely "ignore" them.
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Subway was among the companies that placed ads containing video that users had to start manually. Mr. Pace of Subway said roughly 88 million people saw the ad and "millions" of people clicked on it. "It worked pretty darn well," he added.
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The Ideal Length for All Online Content - 1 views
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100 characters is the engagement sweet spot for a tweet.
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But 40 is the magic number that Jeff Bullas found was most effective in his study of retail brands on Facebook. He measured engagement of posts, defined by “like” rate and comment rate, and the ultra-short 40-character posts received 86 percent higher engagement than others.
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The ideal length of a headline is 6 words
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Will AMP Become a Web Standard for the World of Commerce? | Street Fight - 0 views
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David: AMP has become a major component of Google’s push to become the presentation layer of the internet (h/t Cindy Krum, Mobile Moxie) and complements the moves they’ve made with featured snippets and Knowledge Panels.
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I’ve always seen Knowledge Panels partly as a consumer-focused solution to the experience of the average SMB website and average enterprise store locator — both are overwhelmingly crappy.
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in accepting either AMP or Instant Articles, publishers relinquish their most critical asset, subscribers, to the duopoly.
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The Future of Social Networks - SocialTimes - 0 views
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the new social model is simply to harvest social signals and sell personalized ads, however and wherever possible.
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The purpose of Facebook’s upcoming mobile ad network is to sell ads outside of Facebook.com and its mobile app. This “multiple app” strategy often accompanies a network’s own app offerings — in Facebook’s case, Messenger, Facebook Camera and Paper. According to Elgan: If Facebook’s direction or strategy isn’t clear, let me spell it out: Harvest personal data from multiple apps, then sell personalized advertising in multiple locations. Here’s an oversimplified example: An ad for a Starbucks promotion presented to you in a mobile game (sold through Facebook’s upcoming ad network) might be based on knowledge that you spend a ton of time at Starbucks — information harvested from the Moves app. As you can see, there’s no Facebook — no social network — involved in this series of events. But Facebook gets paid anyway.
Official Webtrends Company Blog - Engage 2011: How to Increase Your Facebook Fan Base-M... - 0 views
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