From Pine View Farm

Facebook Frolics 1

Your “news feed” is for sale:

As its stock continues to be battered by skeptical investors, Facebook is hoping that a new type of advertising format, called sponsored stories, may help overcome concerns about its future.

These ads, designed to join the normal streams on members’ news feeds and status updates, are already generating about $1 million per day in revenue in limited testing.

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  1. George Smith

    July 29, 2012 at 5:22 pm

    I’ve seen a few creep into my feed. When I do I set the Facebook control in the hidden tab to never show me anything fom the group, agency or person again. If enough people could be encouraged to do that it would degrade the value of Facebook further. Businesses and people should be brought to the understanding that buying to contaminate a person’s feed with ads and promotions thinly disguised as “stories” is odious. Feeds are already contaminated by enough picture spammers and other nuisances looking for pet audiences.