Archive for the 'Facebook' Category
Back in November of ‘07, MySpace announced the future launch of “SelfServe by MySpace” which would “allow advertisers to directly purchase, create and analyze the performance of ads throughout the MySpace network.” It was supposed to be in beta for two months then launched in early ‘08. It didn’t happen and ClickZ reported last month [...]
LinkedIn DirectAds
LinkedIn has quietly launched a beta version of a dynamic CPM text advertising platform called LinkedIn DirectAds. No formal announcement of the launch was made on the LinkedIn blog or elsewhere. According to the DIrectAds FAQ, advertisers will be able to dynamically target ads by age, gender, geography, educational institution, industry, and [...]
Facebook continues to quickly and quietly improve their advertising platform. In yet another innovation launched without formal announcement, Facebook now allows advertisers to target ads based on professional titles in user profiles. Previously ads could only target by keywords listed in users’ “interests” field. Now Facebook has indexed professional titles and allows [...]
The Facebook advertising platform continues to advance ahead of the rest of the social network pack. We’re still waiting on the API, but they’ve recently snuck out a feature that allows users to indicate whether they like or dislike an ad served up to them. Where previously there was just a link [...]
I’ve recently been doing some analysis focusing on the growth rates of major social networks and resume databases (I’m saving major blogging platforms for another day, although I’m guessing there are ~400M blogs out there). For the purposes of this analysis I calculated the user profile CAGR for each major social network and resume [...]
Roughly six months ago I posted some information that I dug out of Facebook’s then just launched Facebook Flyer Pro advertising platform. I’ve been poking around with Facebook again the last few days and recent talk about Facebook’s valuation inspired me to update my report. Facebook has improved their advertising platform, now just [...]
Very interesting article reviewing the weak state of voice apps on Facebook over at GigaOm. Given Facebook’s ~50,000,000 users, these numbers are really, really bad. Analysis included in the article from AppHound:
Facebook’s recently launched Flyer Pro advertising platform offers a phenomenal, albeit manual, mechanism for targeting advertisements on Facebook. It also shows some interesting statistics about Facebook’s reach. I ran some quick numbers to see which countries were most saturated with Facebook’s +48M users. The winners:
Canada: 22.12%
Norway: 18.68%
UK: [...]
It’s not often that I disagree with Marc Andreessen, but his recent post on web platforms draws some pretty arbitrary lines. According to his definition of web platform, Craigslist, eBay, eLance and other web-based marketplaces are not web platforms, nor are any of the gazillion blogging platforms, not to mention payment platforms, video & [...]
I posted a few days ago about Yelp getting aggressive/deceptive with the tactic of getting users’ email login and passwords to scrape contacts. Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman was kind enough to respond to my post and clarify that Yelp keeps scraped info private and offers the feature only for user benefit. LinkedIn has [...]
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