Facebook Is Updating Instant Articles to Help Publishers Make More Money

Facebook is updating its policies for Instant Articles, per a rep with the company, which could mean up to 40 percent more ads for publishers on the platform. Starting today, publishers utilizing Instant Articles will be able to place an ad every 350 words instead of every 500 words, according to the rep. They will also soon be able to sell Facebook-only campaigns for the first time—they had been required to couple Instant Articles sales with inventory from other websites—which means publishers can offer Instant Articles ads to brands at premium prices. Publishers should welcome the tweaks. Some have complained that Facebook's original policies made it difficult to get as much revenue as they could from simply publishing articles on their proprietary websites. According to Facebook, publishers earn 100 percent of revenue from ads they sell or a smaller percentage if they choose to tap into the Facebook Audience Network platform. In addition to more ad-focused updates, Facebook will now let publishers manually control the links to editorial content on their own websites which will open on the mobile Web rather than in Facebook's iPhone or Android apps. While all iPhone users have been able to access Instant Articles since October, the feature is still being rolled out to Android users. The changes come as Facebook, which began testing Instant Articles in May, works to better accommodate the more than 100 publishers running stories on a daily basis. The feature seems to... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

[ AdWeek | 2015-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Digiday | 2019-05-29 04:01:04 UTC ]
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Germany’s biggest publisher sales houses unite to fight Google, Facebook and Amazon

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Some Facebook users can’t turn off face recognition, study suggests (updated)

Consumer Reports filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission after finding that 8 out of 31 test accounts lacked the ability to turn off facial recognition. Updated 5/20 7:30 p.m. PST with Facebook comment.Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company

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The Rundown: Search-focused publishers make for attractive acquisition targets

Unlike the crop of publishers that rode social distribution to easy scale several years ago, search-focused publishers rely on a much more stable and sustainable source of traffic. The post The Rundown: Search-focused publishers make for attractive acquisition targets appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

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Digiday Research: European publishers still look to Facebook and Instagram to grow abroad

Forty-two percent of 103 publishing executives polled by Digiday this February said Facebook was an effective platform to grow international audiences. The post Digiday Research: European publishers still look to Facebook and Instagram to grow abroad appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

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Wired’s Facebook boom, and why we need new labor laws for kidfluencers: Publisher’s Brief

Welcome to the latest edition of Ad Age Publisher's Brief, our roundup of news from the world of content producers across digital and print. Got a tip? Send it our way. Joining us late? Here's the previous edition. Facebook II: Wired is out with a sequel of sorts to its widely-read March 2018... Continue reading at Advertising Age

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Snap has three years to make a profit before it runs out of money

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Snap has three years to make a profit before it runs out of money

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Facebook might pay for 'high-quality news,' NYMag vs. WaPo, Cameron Dallas explained: Publisher's Brief

If you're wondering about that leading "Afraid Of?" headlineright off the bat New York Mag seems to be suggesting something unflattering about the Post, right?well, here's a sample summary of Carmon's piece via Twitter:(Adam Penenberg is director of New York University's American Journalism... Continue reading at Advertising Age

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Inside Facebook-born Freeda Media’s distributed publishing strategy

Two-year-old female-focused Freeda Media has worked with 150 brands on branded content campaigns, and revenue has seen triple-digit growth. The post Inside Facebook-born Freeda Media’s distributed publishing strategy appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

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How Facebook is spending more to ensure wary publishers rely on it less

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Video Briefing: Rising costs on Facebook force publishers to rethink branded video distribution

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Facebook is paying 12 publishers for Watch shows starring video creators

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Why this digital publisher refuses to blame Facebook for media's woes

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Industry Notes: SAGE Publishing Makes UK’s Index on Censorship Archive Free

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Video Briefing: Beware, Facebook Watch publishers, the subsidies will not last

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Facebook tests empowering publishers to deliver ads to Watch

Facebook wants to be friendlier to TV networks and digital media publishers who have shows on Watch by giving these partners the ability to sell ads through their own ad technology, according to advertising and technology executives with knowledge of the initiative.The social media giant is... Continue reading at Advertising Age

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Facebook Watch has a new program to fund publisher shows starring influencers

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Facebook released new features that gives Pages the power to join Groups, which means publishers and brands can officially participate in the group activity that is increasingly becoming a core focus for the company.On Wednesday, Facebook announced a slate of new tools, including the ability for... Continue reading at Advertising Age

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When Facebook's Campbell Brown addressed an auditorium full of magazine executives in New York Tuesday, she did not mince words: The social network is not here to save their businesses.Facebook's head of global news partnerships was addressing an audience of print media professionals at the... Continue reading at Advertising Age

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