According to the Product Manager, Fidji Simo is to ease the process of advertising on Facebook. Facebook is considering around 27 different ad products, which, as mentioned, “every single product is excellent on its own,” but overall complicates getting traffic through Facebook.
The ad-buying flow will remain the same, or at least it wasn’t discussed at the press session, and the bidding engine algorithm isn’t likely to change. Simo argued that this gets Facebook closer to its vision “by reducing the possibility of choosing the wrong thing.”
For example, Facebook is eliminating the Questions product instead of adding the ability to ask questions within a regular Page Post. It’s also removing the product for online offers because advertisers promote a link that points users to offers on their website. (It’s keeping the product to promote in-store offers.) And it’s also eliminating Sponsored Story units and instead integrating Sponsored Stories into several other ad units – instead of allowing advertisers to buy a Sponsored Story, Facebook will automatically add “social context” to an ad whenever such context exists. (You can see an example of an ad with social context below.)
There are more details in a just-published Facebook blog post. The company says, “In the next six months, we plan to streamline the number of ad units from 27 to fewer than half of that while mapping all of our ads to the business objectives marketers care about – be it in-store sales, online conversions, app installs, etc.”
Without telling you about status updates, no Facebook tutorial or guide would be complete. These are the most common type of posts on the platform. You can update your status by typing in the box that asks, ‘What’s on your mind?’ Many Facebook users see it as a quick way to let everyone know what’s up in their lives. Status updates are short and sharp and can sometimes even be vague. Many Facebook users like to share inspiring quotes this way. You may think that status updates are unimportant, but they reveal much about a person. You can use them to show everyone how creative you are or even start conversations with your Facebook friends.
