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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.