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Facebook Plans To Show Ads On Websites

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-it-gets-interesting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Facebook is planning to compete directly with Google by working on an update for its ad platform. Facebook will be offering webmasters to place facebook ads on their websites."

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  1. Ok so rumor. Details are where? by garcia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From the blog post:

    There is another twist to this story. Facebook is guarding this news and it is not letting anyone leak it out until they announce it in near future. According to my source, Facebook might launch a broader Facebook Ads platform later this year.

    Basically there is nothing to see here so you can move on now. But! If you want to join the rumor mill here we go:

    1. Are the payouts going to be competitive with AdSense's? I make more than enough yearly via AdSense to get taxed on the income. Will it be worth it for me to add Facebook too?

    2. Will Facebook (or conversely Google) allow me to run both AdSense and FBAds concurrently or will I have to pick one or the other (see #1).

    3. Are general users visiting my website more likely to click FBAds than AdSense? Will they be textual and thus fit into my content better or will we be looking at a lot of images/Flash?

    So many questions and no answers in the linked content. Boo.

  2. Competition is good but... by mackil · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... will it work? Yahoo! tried this back in 2005 and it failed miserably. Too much promised up front with too little returned. Publishers dropped it like a potato before Yahoo! could improve the contextual workings to increase the CTR. I know because I tried it, and quickly discarded it.

    Lesson is, don't promise something you can't deliver, or are planning to deliver at a later date. Odds are, publishers will return to the "tried and true" and never look back.

  3. Re:Good by gnick · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think that's a normal life-cycle.

    Have a good idea, promote it, get popular, get ingrained with your users, cash in, cash out, die. Seems to work.

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  4. Re:Good by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For those of us who desire organizing groups of people online - Facebook is pretty much the only option.

    I wonder how they did it before Facebook?

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