Facebook Launches CPC Ads
Posted by Nick O'Neill on September 14th, 2007 1:51 PMOne of the most criticized ads on Facebook have been their flyer ads. There have been complaints of horrendous click through rates. Complain no more! Facebook has started a new, auction-based, cost-per-click model for the new Flyers. The new “Flyers Pro” offering enables advertisers to state the maximum price that they are willing to pay for each click. The ads can be targeted by keywords, sex, age, location, political views, relationship status, education status and workplace.
Does this sound familiar? It is a duplicate of Google’s AdWords platform except that they provide an additional 6 factors to target by. While I have been predicting a new ad network that Facebook would launch for platform applications, I hadn’t seen this coming. This new model is awesome and one that I will surely test out myself. Is this the ad network that was rumored in the Wall Street Journal less than a month ago? Potentially.
One thing is for certain, Facebook is focused on making advertisers happy. This will significantly reduce the cost of advertising via flyers if previous ads were receiving a measly 0.04% click through rate as I mentioned back in July. I have a feeling that this may be the testing ground for the larger advertising network that they plan on launching in the coming months. I’ve included a screenshot of the new Flyers Pro submission form below. Also, if you are an advertiser, go check out the new Flyers Pro.
September 14th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
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September 14th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
This is amazing news - thanks for putting the word out! The targeting capabilities warm my heart.
September 15th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Good to see FB move in this direction, but the billing engine doesn’t accept UK addresses, despite the fact that you can select UK as a country. They lost me as a customer.
September 17th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
I’m also having issues signing up with a UK credit card. Facebook support are already aware of the issue. No mention of when we can expect it resolved. Looking forward to giving it a try…
October 25th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
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October 30th, 2007 at 10:26 am
What does it mean when it says that the more your price per click the higher the chance your ad will be shown? How do I figure out how much i should make my max price per click in order for my ad to be shown enough?