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Tag: mobile advertising

Social media marketing at Facebook to be toned down

The popular online network has vowed that it will add a smaller number of unwanted ads in user Newsfeeds.

According to the latest social media marketing move from Facebook, the Newsfeeds for the users of this network will contain fewer ads for products and services that have no interest for the specific users.

This announcement was made by Facebook as it shared the changes it would be making in its advertising policy.

This was the most recent social media marketing effort at Facebook for refining its Newsfeed ads, which are growing in importance to its overall business. According to the statement from the company, “When deciding which ad to show to which groups of people, we are placing more emphasis on feedback we receive from people about ads, including how often people report or hide an ad.”

This is social media marketing decision was made in response to the number of ads being hidden by users.

Social Media Marketing - Facebook Ads to be toned downAccording to the company’s announcement “If someone always hides ads for electronics, we will reduce the number of those types of ads that we show to them.” Facebook has been using a number of social media marketing strategies to try to make advertising more central to the user experience without actually causing its 1.15 billion users to become frustrated with the service.

This is important, as social media marketing brings in approximately 85 percent of the revenue of this leading company. It is currently injecting one paid ad into every twenty of the user’s Newsfeed “stories” and has been doing so since July.

Although large brands such as AT&T and Toyota regularly advertise using Facebook’s social media marketing, the company also earns a considerable income from marketers of products such as teeth whitening kits and weight loss systems. According to analysts, some users are not thrilled about these less than fashionable ads stuffed into their Newsfeeds.

Analyst Nate Elliot from Forrester Research stated that Facebook will need to take careful steps in its social media marketing in order to keep the less glamorous ad category from becoming intrusive and that it might be better off leaving them over in the right hand side where they have previously been found, while the Newsfeed remains reserved for higher quality advertising.

Mobile marketing ad spending on its way up in 2013

Digital ads will represent 22 percent of all American ad spending this year, with mobile at 3.7 percent.

According to the latest report on spending in digital and mobile marketing, online ads will make up 22 percent of all of the U.S. ad spending this year, which represents a considerable growth.

Ads geared toward consumers on smartphones and tablets will also be growing steadily.

This will bring the global ad spending up to a healthy 3.5 percent growth to reach $503 billion by the time this year comes to a close. The amount being directed toward the internet and mobile marketing specifically will only continue to rise. This, according to the latest figures that have been released by ZenithOptimedia, an ad agency owned by Publicis.

Mobile marketing ads will account for 3.7 percent of all ad spending in the U.S. ($6.2 billion).

2013 Mobile Marketing SpendingThe United States is disproportionately the single largest advertising marketplace. The digital spending in that country throughout all of 2013 was predicted by the report to be 21.8 percent of all of the ad spending, which will total $109.7 billion). This is an increase of a very healthy 19 percent over the figure from 2012.

At the same time, mobile marketing does still remain a small fraction of the overall activity, despite its rapid growth, at its 3.7 percent of total ad spending. Equally, it is the most rapidly growing channel in advertising spending, leading the way with a massive 81 percent growth in the American market this year. That rate is expected to slow somewhat, but remain very high at 61 percent growth throughout 2014, and slow a little bit more in 2015, to 53 percent. At that time, it is expected to make up 8.4 percent of all ad spending.

When compared to standard internet advertising, mobile marketing is positively exploding. The report showed that online advertising is growing by about 16 percent this year and will make up 27.8 percent of all American ad spending by the end of 2015. Those figures are just as impressive outside of the U.S. market, where smartphones and tablets are also growing in popularity.