clickthrough rates
Survey suggests Facebook advertising benchmarks: $0.80 CPC, 0.014 percent CTR
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Facebook advertisers see an average cost per click of $0.80 and average clickthrough rate of 0.014 percent, according to a survey released today by Social Fresh. The survey of 347 advertisers found that respondents who worked for an agency had higher average CTR than vendors and marketers who worked directly...
500 Startups Alum LaunchBit Launches Its Email Ad Network
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Advertising in email newsletters is an old idea, but the founders of LaunchBit, a startup that’s leaving closed beta testing today, say things haven’t changed since the ’90s. The biggest problem? When you advertise in newsletters, you blindly send the same ad to everyone on the list. “There’s no targeting...
Facebook ads have higher clickthrough rates on weekends, study finds
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Average Facebook ad clickthrough rates are highest on weekends and lowest on Monday, according to new research by TBG Digital. Specifically, Saturday’s average CTR is 12 percent higher than average CTR on Monday. Advertisers can use this information to understand their own campaign performance and perhaps adjust their Facebook ad...
Facebook ads in desktop and mobile News Feed outperform Twitter in-stream ads
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Sponsored Stories in the Facebook mobile and desktop feed are averaging significantly higher clickthrough rates than Twitter in-stream ads, according to a report released today by ad optimization company TBG Digital. Since Facebook began allowing advertisers to choose whether they want their ads to appear in the desktop News...
Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Google
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Google has increasingly tailored its search service with individuals' data, but clickthrough rates can't reflect a community's desires....
Social games have lower costs per click on Facebook than brands do, analysis shows
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On average, brands advertising on Facebook pay more per click than social game companies do, according to data provided to us by third-party vendor AdParlor. Facebook ad costs continue to rise across a number of industries as competition increases, particularly among consumer brands and the hardcore social game sector. Advertisers...
Facebook settles Sponsored Stories lawsuit without disclosing terms
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Facebook today settled a proposed class action lawsuit that contested how the site uses names and images of users in its Sponsored Stories ad product. The plaintiffs of Fraley et al v. Facebook, Inc. asserted that the social network’s new ad type turns users into spokespeople, and thus entitles them...
Facebook must let users opt out of Sponsored Stories following lawsuit settlement
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Facebook will have to give users more control over which of their actions can be promoted in Sponsored Stories, as part of a settlement for a suit claiming the social network violated California law by using people’s names and images along with advertisements without compensating them. The change could have...
‘See your ad here’ module encourages developers to promote their apps with Sponsored Stories
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In an effort to pick up more advertisers, Facebook is testing a new module that gives developers a preview of what Sponsored Stories for their app might look like. The modules, which tend to appear on app canvas pages, are eye-catching since they include the name and image from a...
Facebook adds Sponsored Stories to 'Pages You May Like' mobile module
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Facebook appears to be testing Page-Like Sponsored Stories in a mobile module called “Pages You May Like.” With this new module, seen right, the social network is showing some users two Sponsored Stories at a time. This increases Facebook’s mobile inventory, but it’s unclear how it might affect clickthrough rates....
fMC: The F8 New York Actually Cares About
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Today at the American Museum of Natural History, Facebook hosted its first conference for 1000 New York marketing types. It’s like an F8 that Madison Avenue cares about, but it’s also more than that: It’s the F8 investors should care about. Facebook depends on the people in this room more...
A Framework For The $10B+ Native Advertising Market
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Editor’s note: Dan Greenberg is the founder & CEO of Sharethrough, the native video advertising company. Dan has been honored as an AdAge “Media Maven” and was recently named to the Forbes “30 under 30″ list. You can find him on Twitter at @dgreenberg. Over the past ten years, publishers have continued...
LocalResponse Debuts Pro Version Of Social Advertising Platform For Marketers
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Local Response, a social advertising platform that allows local businesses to respond to the “check-in” with marketing campaigns, is launching a pro version of its analytics and action platform for marketers. LocalResponse’s DirectResponse product aggregates real-time social media check-‐ins from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Instagram and dozens of other services to provide a simple interface...
Why GM May Be Reconsidering Facebook Advertising
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A move by General Motors to reconsider its decision to pull Facebook advertising may have more to do with contests and giveaways than it has to do with a sudden rethinking of the automaker's social media strategy. Charlotte Reynolds, an online marketing specialist, says recent changes require brands to use...
Facebook begins rotating ads on static pages if users don't interact
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Facebook has begun rotating ads in the right sidebar if users remain on the same page for a while. “We recently made a change to some pages that show ads on Facebook that allows ads to be replaced with others after an extended period of time,” a Facebook spokesperson told...
Facebook says its social ad business has plenty of room to grow
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed Thursday that Sponsored Stories in News Feed generate about $1 million a day, half of which is coming from mobile placement, but COO Sheryl Sandberg said that these ads still make up only a small percentage of the site’s inventory. Facebook’s revenue from advertising was $992 million in...
Statistical Significance: Not Just For Geeks Anymore
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The concept of “statistical significance” is probably one of the most misunderstood phrases in search marketing. People sometimes ask me to assess whether the difference between two clickthrough rates is “statistically significant” or not with the same look on their face as if they are asking if a particular rash...
Bookmarking startup Xmarks launches ads with crowd-sourced ratings
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Xmarks, a service that lets users synchronize their web bookmarks across browsers and devices, today announced the first big piece of its plans to make money — an advertising service it calls SearchBoost. The San Francisco company is already using the data collected from its 4 million users who are...
Real-time search engine OneRiot makes it ads more mainstream
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Real-time search startup OneRiot is making its content ads fit in with industry standards, as it pushes for broader distribution across the web. It’s launching ad units today that match Interactive Advertising Bureau guidelines (see right). Before, partners had to integrate OneRiot’s raw data feed and design their own user interface for...
Hey Advertisers, Forget the iPhone — Symbian Is Where It’s At!
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U.S. owners of Symbian-based handsets click 2.7 times more mobile ads than those with iPhones, according to April data due to be released by mobile ad company Smaato on Monday. And this is in a country where, relatively speaking, Symbian phones have very little presence. Perhaps Apple is planning its...
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